Jessica McBride: “We appreciate the grant money because it will give our students opportunities, open doors for them to do some pretty amazing journalism on some of the biggest national stories.”
Christopher Cantwell decided to show his Research Methods in Local History students how to research local history by pairing up and partnering them with a local place of worship to study their practices and write their history
Jasmine Alinder has co-curated the “Someday, Chicago” exhibit at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago to explore the work of Yasuhiro Ishimoto, a gifted photographer who honed his craft while held in a Japanese internment camp during WWII.
Two UWM students, Hugo Ljungbäck and Christian Balistreri, are spearheading a project to preserve and restore a long-forgotten 16-millimeter film archive in
Curtin Hall.
UWM alum Tony Rodriguez hopes to advance Holocaust research, education and documentation after his survey about American knowledge of the Holocaust yielded some startling results.
John Gurda became Milwaukee’s best-known historian somewhat accidentally. As he continued to write a series of books and stories about businesses and neighborhoods, Gurda realized he had the raw material for a comprehensive history of Milwaukee.
Graduating journalists may know about newsgathering, but what do they know about the news business as a whole? UWM journalism instructor Jessie Garcia Marble is giving students an eyes-wide-open approach to the journalism business.
In 1980, Chia Youyee Vang was a Hmong refugee from Laos. Today, she’s a professor of history at UWM and one of the world’s leading experts on Hmong refugees. “Not only has Chia’s research expanded… understandings of diasporic Hmong communities, but she also has mentored a new generation of scholars in the field she helped invent.”
If it came down to a choice between saving Hitler or Gandhi from a sinking ship, assistant professor of philosophy Stan Husi would let Gandhi in the lifeboat every time. And that, he argues, is one of the reasons why humanity does not have equal moral worth.
In the United States, African Americans make up about 13 percent of the population, but hold less than 10 percent of the seats in government.That’s a problem, according to a new paper by UWM Africology professor Nolan Kopkin.