Maura Lucking, assistant professor of the history of architecture in the 51���� School of Architecture & Urban Planning, is the recipient of the 2026 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant. 

Lucking’s project is titled “Contested Sovereignties: Visions of Land and Housing Reform by Wisconsin Oneida Activist Laura Cornelius Kellogg.” 

Lucking will investigate Oneida activist Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Lolomi plan, a proposed urban development initiative based on Europe’s Garden City movement. The plan envisioned self-sustained and self-governed greenbelt villages that would support the expansion of the Six Nations Confederacy land base. Lucking will also describe how Kellogg’s Progressive Era ideals and controversial methods of raising capital shape the perception of Kellogg and the Lolomi plan today.  

“This research,” Lucking said, “grounds Kellogg’s flawed vision for indigenous sovereignty in her lived experiences as a Wisconsin Oneida woman while also asking difficult questions about why many Oneida have not embraced her legacy.” 

Kellogg’s published writings and speeches will serve as a foundation for the research as Lucking explores the activist’s housing, land reform, and public health ideas, as well as her boosterism of the Lolomi plan.  

The Fromkin Grant will be used to examine archival materials in Washington, D.C., Madison, and the Oneida Nation, as well as conduct community-engaged interviews with indigenous scholars and thinkers. Lucking will use the Fromkin Memorial Collection at 51���� to explore the housing reform work Kellogg participated in as a student in Milwaukee. 

Lucking will present the results of her research at the Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture in fall 2026. 

Lucking has previous publishing credits in journals such as Architectural Theory Review and Journal of Architectural Education. Prior to her appointment in 2022 to 51����’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Lucking was a fellow at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture & Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. 

The amount of the grant is $6,000. This year’s Fromkin committee members include Michael Doylen, Max Yela, Rachel Baum, Gabriela Nagy, Kumkum Sangari, and Mark Freeland. 

Established by Morris Fromkin’s family and supported by an endowment from Fromkin’s grandson, Daniel Soyer,��the lecture series, dedicated to social justice, is the longest running lecture series on campus. The program is administered by the 51���� Libraries.��

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Gabriela Nagy, 51���� assistant professor of psychology and principal investigator, EQUITY Research Group, has been chosen for the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture.

Her proposal is titled “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.”

The primary goal of Nagy’s project, she writes, is “to develop a popular press book that . . . [focuses] on how Latino/a immigrants resist oppressive systems and rebound from chronic stress and trauma in the US.”

Her book will “challenge the pervasive deficit lens through which Latino/a immigrants are often viewed, focusing instead on their remarkable resilience and the protective factors that safeguard their mental and physical health despite chronic stressors, trauma, and systemic oppression.”

“The book,” she continues, “will target the general public, offering insights into how Latino/a cultural values and practices can inform healthier, more resilient ways of living for all people in the US.”

Nagy has published extensively in journals including Psychological Services, Ethnicity & Health, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, and Nursing Research, and is associate editor for Journal for Health Services Psychology.

Before her appointment in 2022 to 51����’s Department of Psychology, Nagy served as assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and assistant clinical professor in the Duke School of Nursing. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from 51���� in 2017.

She will present the results of her research at the Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture in fall 2025.

The amount of the grant is $5,000. This year’s Fromkin committee members were Michael Doylen, Nan Kim, Kumkum Sangari, Anne Widmayer, and Max Yela.

Established by Morris Fromkin’s family and supported by an endowment from Fromkin’s grandson, Daniel Soyer, the lecture series, dedicated to social justice, is the longest running lecture series on campus. The program is administered by the 51���� Libraries.

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For 2025, we especially welcome proposals on environmental justice, immigration, gender equity, LGBTQ+ rights, or indigeneity. Applications must be submitted by January 10, 2025. All full-time 51���� faculty and academic staff are encouraged to apply, individually or as a group. More information is available here.

The 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Nan Kim, associate professor, 51���� Department of History, on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. in the Fourth Floor Conference Center of the 51���� Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. The title of her talk is “Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in the New Nuclear Age: Contemporary Legacies of Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell.”��

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This lecture will be presented simultaneously in person and virtually. ��

The��2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture��will be presented by��Nan Kim��(Associate Professor, 51���� Department of History).

What can offer resources for hope at a time of escalating ecological crisis and alarming nuclear dangers? This talk argues for approaching this question by looking to the historical and contemporary legacies of two vital public intellectuals: Rachel Carson (1907–1964) and Jonathan Schell (1943-2014). Credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement and the nuclear-disarmament movement respectively, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring��(1962) and Jonathan Schell’s��The Fate of the Earth��(1982) were both landmark bestsellers of their time and remain exemplars of moral clarity as powerful interventions concerning critical issues of sweeping real-world impact.

This project explores the work of these authors as models of research-based interventions which helped to galvanize collective action for bringing about transformative change in the face of pressing global challenges, despite profound uncertainty about the future. The talk also revisits the far-reaching influence of these authors’ writings as testament to the power of poetic language for overcoming paralysis and creating a renewed sense of urgency in response to ethical questions of intergenerational social justice.

About the speaker:

Nan Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History & Co-Director of Public History at 51���� as well as an Affiliated Professor of Anthropology. She serves as Faculty Lead/PI for the Working Group on STS (Science & Technology Studies) at the����and is Core Faculty in the Graduate Programs in����and��. Kim is also the Regional Editor for Korea on the Editorial Board for the journal����

Her recent publications include “A New Kind of Tinderbox on the Korean Peninsula” in����(September 2024) and��“South Korea’s Nuclear-Energy Entanglements and the Timescales of Ecological Democracy” in����edited by David Fedman, Eleana Kim, and Albert L. Park, eds., and published by Cornell in 2023.

Kim’s book,����published by��Lexington Books in 2017, was the winner of the 2019 Scott Bills Memorial Prize from the Peace History Society.

Please contact libspecial@uwm.edu��for more information and accommodations.

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