Professor Emeritus William V茅lez has been honored with the 2020 American Sociological Association Latina/o Section Julian Samora Sociology Distinguished Career Award.
Doctoral Student DaJuan Ferrell accepted Lectureship position at University of Pennsylvania’s Critical Writing Program
DaJuan Ferrell has accepted a Lectureship position at the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Critical Writing Program. The program offers discipline-based seminars that all undergraduate students must take to fulfill their writing requirement at the University of Pennsylvania. As a lecturer, DaJuan will teach three sociology themed writing seminars.
The Lost Women of America’s Hop Industry Podcast
In October 2019, UW-Milwaukee Professor Dr. Jennifer Jordan was interviewed at the Chicago History Museum for The Feast podcast. In the interview, she discusses her current book project about 19th-century hop growing and the central role that women played in the hop harvest.
The show notes can be found on the website: and the episode is available on the major podcast platforms like & .
Assoc. Prof. Cary Gabriel Costello is part of team that won Mellon Grant for 鈥淟GBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project鈥�
The 51猎奇 Libraries house one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary LGBTQ+ materials in Wisconsin and the Midwest, including a rich record of Milwaukee鈥檚 LGBTQ+ communities. The LGBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project will use machine learning tools and data analysis and visualization to build and process text datasets extracted from a variety of AV materials in these collections, including collections of oral histories, local television news and radio broadcasts, and early LGBTQ+ community cable programming. The LGBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project will aid in better understanding the contents of these collections, and enhance discoverability of previously unrecognized topics, relationships, and patterns that shed light on the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Milwaukee and the Midwest.
Besides Prof. Costello, the team leaders include Dan Siercks, director of academic computing services in the College of Letters & Science, Ann Hanlon, senior academic librarian in the Golda Meir Library, and Marcy Bidney, assistant director of the Golda Meir Library.
Transgender Experiences and Artistic Expression: a talk by Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello
On September 21, 2019, Sociology Associate Professor Cary Gabriel Costello gave a talk titled “Transgender Experiences and Artistic Expression” at the Milwaukee Art Museum.