Letter from the Chair Newsletter

Fall 2025: Letter from the Chair

Greetings from UWM Geography! The fall semester is well underway, and I’m pleased be writing this first Letter from the Chair since stepping into the position in August. Please join me in thanking Professor Ryan Holifield for his service and leadership in this role for the past four years. During …

Spring 2025: Letter from the Chair

Once again, greetings from UWM Geography! The spring semester is now in full swing. Although there have been no major changes to the department since my last letter, we continue to adjust to a changing landscape for UWM and for …

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.