Read the story on urban studies major BA alum Jordan Villegas and his work at Acts Housing in this month’s In Focus magazine. https://uwm.edu/letters-science/in-focus/alumni-student-news/what-can-you-do-with-an-urban-studies-major/ Post navigation
The 2025 fall issue of e.polis, Resistance, Justice, and Belonging in the City, is out. This issue brings together writing on how people contest power and inequality in urban life – and how resistance, collective action, and everyday practices shape justice and belonging in the city. Read the issue here: https://sites.uwm.edu/epolis/current-issue/ Kudos to all the contributors and the e.polis editorial …
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. The article receiving recognition is Amanda I. Seligman and Jaclyn J. Kelly, “Staging Historical Reenactments on Twitter: History, Methods, …
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, 2024).
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 the abstract here.
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/
USP Affiliate, Amanda Seligman (History and Urban Studies), presented research from her recent project examining the history of North Shore governance in Milwaukee County, The Town of Milwaukee, Glendale, and the North Shore: Exploring the History of Suburban Governance in Wisconsin.
Urban Studies Teaching Associate Professor and Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Director, Jamie Harris, was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Teaching Award for academic staff at the UWM Employee Excellence awards ceremony.
Congratulations to Jayne Kilander (Urban Studies MS – MLIS student) as this year's California Map Society & David Rumsey Map Center Student Exhibition Competition winner at Stanford University!
Congratulations to this year's Graduate and Undergraduate Awards: Caitlin Monahan (BA student in Urban Studies) won the Undergraduate Award for her poster: “The Prevalence of Change: House Flipping as a Gentrification Mechanism in Milwaukee.” Maria Francis, (PhD Candidate in Urban Studies) received the Graduate Award for her poster: "Unveiling Narratives: Resisting Adversity and Empowering Youth …
Congratulations to first year student Mason Novak, an urban studies major who received the Outstanding Presentation Award at this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 25th for his oral presentation!See the full story below in the latest issue of InFocus:"Award winners included Mason Novak, an urban studies major who is in his first year …
Natalie Hernandez was sitting at a student networking event at the 2023 Population Association of America conference in New Orleans when she received a very important email. Read the whole story.