Outstanding achievement by Professor Callanan!-UWM English Professor Liam Callanan’s novel, Paris by the Book, was selected an outstanding book by an author with a Wisconsin connection by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee. Congratulations, Liam!
Furrow wins National Program Directors’ Prize for Content from AWP-Furrow, the undergraduate literary magazine sponsored by the Department of English at UWM, has won the National Program Directors’ Prize for Content from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. This is a high honor indeed.
Dr. Chia Youyee Vang discusses her new book at Concordia University, St. Paul-Chia Youyee Vang has just published, “Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War.” The book is written from the perspectives of the Hmong Pilots themselves, who reached out to Chia to help them tell these stories that have long been kept secret.
UWM professors and community partner collect ‘forgotten’ stories of gun violence-UWM colleagues Leslie Harris and Erin Parcell, associate professors in Communication, and Portia Cobb, associate professor in Film, have teamed up with Debra Gillispie, founder of Mothers Against Gun Violence, to launch the Gun Violence Project.
TIS Student Wanis Shalaby Featured in CBS Sports Video-Congratulations to UWM Translation and Interpreting Studies student, Wanis Shalaby, Principal at Salam School in Milwaukee! His students at Salam School have been highlighted in a video by CBS Sports.
Fulbright Scholar Heads Back to Africa-When Allison Kotowicz arrived in Tanzania for an undergraduate study abroad, she felt like she had found her home. Today, Kotowicz is an anthropology PhD student and she'll be returning to her adopted home in August as a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research abroad fellow to continue her research into Tanzania's conservation, tourism, and development.
Marnie Lawler McDonough Examines Demagogic Rhetoric-Before arriving at UWM, Marnie Lawler McDonough enjoyed a career as a corporate communications and marketing executive in New York. That led to her research interest as a communication doctoral candidate – the rhetoric of organizational leadership, especially speech that’s manipulative, deceptive or violates norms.
Hostile Terrains Exhibition-Please join us for the opening of the exhibition Hostile Terrains at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, Mitchell Hall room 170 on Thursday, September 30, 2021 from 5-7pm. The exhibition will run through February 10, 2022. Hostile Terrains visually explores the intersection of landscape,... Read More