Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, a visiting assistant professor in UWM’s Department of Africology, has been awarded the 2017 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant for her project “Black Brazilian Social Justice Activism in the Digital Age.”
As part of the honor, Mitchell-Walthour will deliver the Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture during the fall 2017 semester at the Golda Meir Library. The Fromkin lecture series is the longest-running lecture series at UWM.
Mitchell-Walthour’s research addresses two main questions: How does YouTube serve as a space for a new kind of social justice activism, and how are Afro-Brazilian YouTubers informed by African-American culture and activists?
The Morris Fromkin grant and lectureship, provided by the UWM Libraries, encourages and assists UWM scholars conducting research on individuals, groups, movements and ideas that have influenced the quest for social justice and human rights.
The award is named for Morris Fromkin, an advocate for social justice who did legal work for the labor movement and pro bono work for the poor.
