Students from UWM and Notre Dame helped conduct research for a recent article in the Washington Post “Monkey Cage” blog, written by UWM associate professor of History Christine Evans and Notre Dame political scientist Susanne Wengle. The UWM students included are Alexandra Stott, who graduated and is on her way to U of Indiana pursuing an MA program, Ravil Ashirov, and Blake Lilek.
Will Tchakirides, a PhD candidate in history at UWM talks about Sterling Brown’s arrest and the use of overpolicing by the Milwaukee Police Department throughout the city in his latest article on The Washington Post.
If you want to make her day, ask Katie Steffan about her box work. She’s a self-taught archival box constructor and proud of it. Steffan is one of an eight-person team working at Guardian, which opened on W. St. Paul Avenue in 2017. Her education was well-suited to the task; Steffan graduated from UWM in 2015 with her Master’s in Public History and a certificate in Museum Studies. She completed internships at the Milwaukee Public Museum and met Guardian founder Shannon when she took an internship cataloging his personal collection, a treasure-trove of roughly 5,000 pieces of art.