Faculty Spotlight: Anna Mansson McGinty, Kristin Sziarto

Anna Mansson McGinty, Kristin Sziarto, and UWM colleague Caroline Seymour-Jorn (French, Italian, and Comparative Literature) have received the 2015 Morris Fromkin Memorial Award for their Muslim Milwaukee Project, a collaboration with Muslim community leaders in Milwaukee.

Faculty Spotlight: Zengwang Xu

Zengwang Xu served as a mentor for the project “Integrating Emergency Department Data with Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Service and Community Data to Reduce Violence,” a collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Faculty Spotlight: Linda McCarthy

Linda McCarthy visited the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin (UCD) in February to work on a collaborative international research project.

Faculty Spotlight: Woonsup Choi

Woonsup Choi was appointed as International Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Korea from March 2015 to February 2016.

Faculty Spotlight: Anne Bonds

Anne Bonds presented a keynote lecture at the 2015 Race, Ethnicity, and Identity Conference, hosted by the Social Sciences Department at Grand Rapids Community College.

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.