June 2018

Mark D. Schwartz on Global Warming

Mark D. Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Geography, is quoted in a new Associated Press article about research on global warming.

Kristin Sziarto elected to the Nominating Committee of the AAG

We are pleased to announce that Kristin Sziarto has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The Nominating Committee is responsible for identifying candidates to stand for elections for major AAG positions.

UWM geographers co-organize panel on “Muslim Arts and Belonging”

“Muslim Arts and Belonging” was organized by three UWM professors – Anna Mansson McGinty (Women’s and Gender Studies and Geography); Caroline Seymour-Jorn (Comparative Literature); and Kristin Sziarto (Geography) – in collaboration with Professor Enaya Othman of Marquette University (Arabic). The event aimed to open up an important discussion about the diversity of Muslim experiences and voices in Milwaukee.

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.