Featured Experts

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  Jeffrey Kurz

  Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres, Peck School of the Artsjpkurz@uwm.edu

  A film producer, writer and former Hollywood studio executive, Jeffrey Kurz can discuss the inner workings and ramifications of the Academy Awards.

  

  Jeffrey Kurz

  Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres, Peck School of the Artsjpkurz@uwm.edu

  Jeffrey Kurz is a producer, writer and former studio executive who teaches courses on screenwriting and film production in UWM’s Peck School of the Arts.  During his eight-year tenure at Miramax Films, he was involved in such varied and diverse films as Neil Jordan’s Academy Award-winning The Crying Game, Alex Proyas’ The Crow, Guillermo del Toro’s Mimic, Chris Eyre’s Smoke Signals and John Carpenter’s Halloween series. Kurz can discuss the inner workings and ramifications of the Academy Awards and other awards shows, as well as other aspects of the film and the entertainment industries.

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  Elana Levine

  Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies, College of Letters & Scienceehlevine@uwm.edu414-229-4436

  For Valentine’s Day, historian and television critic Elana Levine can discuss what we can learn from America’s most romantic television programming — the soap opera.

  

  Elana Levine

  Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies, College of Letters & Scienceehlevine@uwm.edu414-229-4436

  Professor Elana Levine studies media created for women and examines how the media has portrayed women from the 1940s to today. For Valentine’s Day, Levine can discuss what we can learn from America’s most romantic television programming – the soap opera. Levine edited the collection “Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century,” and is author of “Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television,” among other titles. She has appeared in the New York Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and on CNN.

  Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century
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  Ermitte Saint Jacques

  African & African Diaspora Studies, College of Letters & Sciencesaintjac@uwm.edu

  Anthropologist Ermitte Saint Jacques studies the impact and causes of immigration, particularly in Europe and Africa.

  

  Ermitte Saint Jacques

  African & African Diaspora Studies, College of Letters & Sciencesaintjac@uwm.edu

  Ermitte Saint Jacques, an anthropologist and assistant professor in African & African Diaspora Studies, researches the impact and causes of immigration, particularly in Europe and Africa. Most recently, her work has focused on the social integration of West African immigrants, many of them Muslim, in Spain. She also is looking at the mobility of immigrants within the European Union, where member countries have open borders.

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  Sara C. VanderHaagen

  Communication, College of Letters & Sciencevanderha@uwm.edu414-229-2271

  An expert in African American public discourse and history, Sara C. VanderHaagen can talk to journalists about Black History Month commemorations.

  

  Sara C. VanderHaagen

  Communication, College of Letters & Sciencevanderha@uwm.edu414-229-2271

  Assistant communication professor Sara C. VanderHaagen examines how we use rhetoric to argue about and reshape stories about the past, with a particular emphasis on the ways that race and gender influence public memories. She studies African American public discourse and history, including children’s literature, and can speak with reporters about Black History Month commemorations. Her work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Women’s Studies in Communication, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and Las Vegas Weekly.

  Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Agency