Simon(e) van Saarloos is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Research Fund for Graduate Students.
van Saarloos is a writer, artistic collaborator, and independent curator whose work spans theory, literature, and contemporary art. They are the author of Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto (2023), Take ’Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting (2021), and...
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Coral Murphy Marcos is a PhD student in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She holds a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, where she studied Journalism. She completed a master’s degree in Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Her master’s thesis...
Gal Forer is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Conference Fund for Graduate Students.
Maren Ludwig is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at UC Berkeley. She is using large geospatial datasets to answer questions at the intersection of climate change, socioeconomic development, and water resource management. Her main research interests relate
Thor Larson is an applied microeconomist with a background in energy and environmental economics and industrial organization. His research focuses on the 
Ambika Athreya is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Research Fund for Graduate Students. Ambika Athreya joined the Phd program in German Studies in 2021. She works in translation and migration studies, the history of science, and, broadly speaking, transnational German Studies, as it intersects with Latin American and South Asian Studies. She enjoys teaching language classes in both German and Spanish...
