Gabriela Nagy, 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ’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 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ Libraries.

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Collaborative photographers and books artists  have worked together on photographic projects and photo-based artists books for over 40 years. Ciurej is a Chicago-based photographer and graphic designer. Lochman is a Milwaukee-based photographer and former art lecturer at 51ÁÔÆæ. Together they create narrative works that engage the edge between the heroic and the commonplace through a confluence of history, myth, and popular culture. For them, collaboration opens the possibility of moving beyond personal stories and into the realm of collective experience, mirroring the fluid and mutable ways of storytelling traditions.

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman will present and discuss their work, their collaborative process, and the choice of the book form as one of their primary mediums.

The lecture, free and open to the public, is supported by the Ettinger Family Foundation.

The lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.

For more information or accommodations, email libspecial@uwm.edu.

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The creation of a 2,700 square foot Graduate Student Commons on the second floor, east wing of the library promises to have the most impact on student success.

A collaboration between the 51ÁÔÆæ Libraries and the Graduate School, the common area will provide graduate students, who make up 20% of the student population at 51ÁÔÆæ, with a “third space” for their study needs — an alternative to home and classroom — where they can come together to connect and build community.

Currently the need for these third spaces is unevenly met by 51ÁÔÆæ schools and colleges, and the existing spaces vary in comfort, accessibility, and usefulness. The Golda Meir Library is a natural site for a commons on the main campus.

Overlooking the 51ÁÔÆæ Fountain and offering ample natural light, the new commons will be accessible to graduate students only. The space will support both group and individual work.

Construction will begin May 13 and is planned for completion by the beginning of the fall semester.

A second project is the creation of new open study space and group study rooms on the second floor, west wing. The 2,100 square foot area formerly housed the Archives, which moved into its extraordinary new quarters on the third floor this past fall.

Construction is scheduled to start in mid-May and last through the summer.

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