Congratulations, Prof. Amanda Seligman

Congratulations to USP faculty affiliate Prof. Amanda Seligman (History and Urban Studies) and Jaclyn Kelly (UWM History Department alum and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Labor History Society) who have won the American Historical Association’s William and Edwyna Gilbert award for articles on teaching. …

Congratulations, Assoc. Prof. Derek Handley

Congratulations to USP faculty affiliate Assoc. Prof. Derek Handley (English and Urban Studies) who has won the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition for Community Writing for Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, …

Congratulations, Kat Kocisky and Prof. Ryan Holifield

Congratulations to USP alumna, Kat Kocisky (PhD ‘ 24) and USP faculty affiliate Professor Ryan Holifield (Geography and Urban Studies), for their recently published article, How Equitable are Urban Rail-Trails: A Review of 11 Development Plans that appears in the journal, Local Environment. You can access …

Fall 2025 Issue: e.polis

The 2025 fall issue of e.polis, Resistance, Justice, and Belonging in the City is out now. View the latest issue here: https://sites.uwm.edu/epolis/current-issue/

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.