Contact UW-Madison Campus Recruiter
International Division
200B Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-1121 (office)
Email: peacecorps@international.wisc.edu
Virtual or Walk-In Advising Hours
Check the Events on our Home Page for details or changes to the regular schedule. The room and access links can be found there. For the academic year of 2026-2027, Advising will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person during the same hours. Email the recruiter if you have questions.
Because of its long-established commitment to service and volunteerism, and continued interest in Peace Corps opportunities, UW-Madison employs a campus-based Peace Corps Recruiter who is responsible for providing advice and insight to those interested in the Peace Corps organization.
The Recruiter is your face-to-face resource to learn about opportunities with the Peace Corps, the application process, and what the life of a Peace Corps Volunteer entails. The Peace Corps Recruiter is housed within the UW-Madison International Division.
Hannah Bennett, UW Campus Peace Corps Recruiter
Hannah served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the agriculture sector Ecuador from 2004-2006. After that, she worked as a farmer in southern Minnesota and in management at a food coop in Minneapolis. She earned an MFA in Design Studies from the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison in 2017, and has been working as an independent artist and teacher. She is originally from central Kansas, and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas.
Contact Hannah at peacecorps@international.wisc.edu.
Kate McCleary, Associate Dean, Academic Initiatives
Kate S. McCleary, PhD, partners with campus and external organizations to design and support academic initiatives and scholarship programs across UW–Madison’s International Division. She works closely with the Brittingham-Viking Scholarship, UW-Madison’s Fulbright Office, the King-Morgridge Scholars Program, the Madison Torske Klubben Trygve Lonnebotn Scholarship, UW-Madison’s Peace Corps Office, the S & S Scholarship, the Scan Design Program, and the Wisconsin International Scholars Program. Her focus areas include academic initiatives, scholarships, intercultural learning, developmental learning, and student growth.
Kate has worked on youth-centered projects in Honduras and Nicaragua, on a teacher-training initiative in Uganda, and on a gender and education framework in Turkmenistan. She has carried out monitoring and evaluation projects for Save the Children, UNICEF, and the Open Society Foundations. McCleary holds a PhD in comparative international development education (University of Minnesota), an MEd in educational leadership (Lehigh University), and a BA in Spanish and History (Muhlenberg College). Her dissertation examined Honduran youths’ understanding of agency and gender constructions in relation to an international development intervention. Kate has held positions in international education at Lehigh University, the University of Minnesota, and Washington College, and received a Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award to Spain. She previously served as the staff director for the Global Engagement Office in the School of Education here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contact Kate at mccleary2@wisc.edu.
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