C21 provided me with an intellectual home and community. My fellow fellows (Year of Humanities Futures) have indelibly impressed upon my work.

Gloria Kim, University of California Riverside


I took my early morning runs on a route that led me near the shores of the lake. I thought, this is a good place. I felt it an honor to be invited to the Center, and still do. To talk about Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy, Peter Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks brought folks together from different fields who might not have otherwise met. I appreciated the prompt to think hard about debt from my own perspective as a land ethical ecologist, Leopold scholar. I got into new literature and brought ideas together in ways I hadn’t imagined before. This consequence was multiplied at the gathering by others’ fresh perspectives. I remain grateful for the important works and collegial friendships this event birthed. Thank you!

Julianne Warren, Independent Scholar and Fellow, Center for Humans and Nature

Center Memories

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.