This year’s keynote speaker is Bench Ansfield (Assistant Professor of History, Temple University and an urban historian of racial capitalism), author of  (W. W. Norton, 2025).

This year’s event also includes a juried senior capstone and graduate student poster session following a buffet lunch, a USP alumni panel where students can hear from and connect with practitioners working in Milwaukee across a variety of fields in the public and private sector, an awards ceremony, and a reception following the keynote presentation.

Event Details:
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026
Time: 11:30 – 4:00 PM
Location: 51ÁÔÆæ Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge (2200 E. 51ÁÔÆæ., Milwaukee, WI, 53211)

Program:

• 11:15–11:30 AM: Registration
• 11:30–12:00 PM: Buffet Lunch
• 12:00–1:30 PM: Juried Poster Session
• 1:30–2:30 PM: Alumni Panel
• 2:45–3:00 PM: Awards Ceremony
• 3:00–4:00 PM: Keynote Speaker Presentation
• 4:00–4:30 PM: Reception and Refreshments

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Join us for the 27th Annual Student Research Forum, a collaborative event bringing together community members, university scholars, students, and city officials to discuss community engagement, neighborhood collaboration, and urban development and policy change. As part of this year’s Student Research Forum, there will be a juried poster session showcasing senior capstone, service learning, and graduate student projects that examine critical issues facing Milwaukee, a panel discussion that will explore the significance of community engagement and neighborhood collaboration centered around community garden spaces in Milwaukee, and an awards ceremony and reception.

Event Details:
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: Noon – 5:00 PM
Location: 51ÁÔÆæ Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge

Panelists:

• Joseph Kaltenberg (Milwaukee Parks Manager, City of Milwaukee Dept. of Public Works);
• Sinai Mendoza-Zarate (Executive Director, Chavez BID & Urban Studies MS student);
• Angela Pruitt (Neighborhood Leader and Community Garden Steward);
• Adrian Spencer (Deputy Director, Rooted & Rising – Washington Park);
• Darrell Terrell (Neighborhood Leader and Art Lot Steward)

Agenda:

• Noon -1:30 PM: Buffet Lunch and Juried Poster Session
• 1:30 – 2:00 PM: Climates of Inequality Media Project Film Screening and Talk Back
• 2:00 – 3:30 PM: Panel Presentations and Discussion
• 3:30 – 4:00 PM: Awards Ceremony
• 4:00 – 5:00 PM: Reception and Refreshments

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Presented by the 51ÁÔÆæ Urban Studies Programs, Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the BLC Field School

Join us for the Urban Forum, a collaborative event bringing together community members, university scholars, students, and city officials to discuss crucial topics impacting Milwaukee. As part of the Urban Forum, there will be a poster session showcasing senior capstone and graduate student projects that examine critical issues facing Milwaukee. Through a pop-up exhibit, panel discussion, and student poster session, we will delve into the significance of community voices and how they can shape our city’s future.

Program

Urban Studies’ Senior Capstone Poster Abstracts

Download Graduate Students Poster Abstract (PDF)

Download the Urban Forum flyer (PDF)

Event Details:

Date: Friday, May 3, 2024
Time: 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda, 200 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202

Agenda:

• 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Introductions and Refreshments
• 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Poster Session
• 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Panel Session
• 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Reception and Refreshments

Panelists:

• Sharaka Berry, Community Organizer
• Lafayette Crump, City of Milwaukee Commissioner of City Development
• Evan Goyke, Milwaukee City Attorney
• Stephanie Harling, Exec. Director-Havenwoods Neighborhood Partnership and BID 31
• Camille Mays, Community Leader
• Supreme Moore Omokunde, WI State Representative for Assembly District 17

Cosponsors:

Rutgers University’s Humanities Action Lab, Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the 51ÁÔÆæ Urban Studies Programs, the Maier Fund, Office of Undergraduate Research, Center for Economic Development, Center for Student Experience and Talent, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School, Department of History, and the College of Letters and Science.

Accessibility:

If you have special needs requiring assistance, please call the Urban Studies Programs office at (414) 229-4751.

Admission:

Free and open to the public. We invite you to join us and contribute your perspectives to this important dialogue.

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Please join us for the 25th Annual Urban Studies’ Student Research Forum.
May 5, 2023 from Noon-5:30pm
51ÁÔÆæ Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge

RSVP here by April 24

Download the 25th Annual Urban Studies Student Research Forum flyer (PDF) Download the Final Forum Program flyer (PDF)

The 2023 Student Research Forum keynote speaker is Claire Dunning, assistant professor of public policy and history at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

In addition to the keynote presentation, the afternoon’s event includes:

• a juried poster session for undergraduate and graduate students over a buffet lunch,
• a panel discussion on community collaborations and conducting urban research by members of the Cherry Street Community Garden project,
• a documentary screening by racial justice community project grant awardee and USP MS student, Nateya Taylor, an awards ceremony, and
• a reception following the keynote presentation.

PROGRAM

• REGISTRATION: 12:00 PM
• JURIED POSTER SESSION OVER LUNCH: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
• PANEL DISCUSSION: 1:30 – 2:30 PM Theme: Community Collaboration & Methods of Urban Research
• DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: 2:30-3:00 PM The Good Land: Muneer Bahauddeen – Vision by Nateya Taylor
• BREAK: 3:00 – 3:15 PM
• AWARDS PRESENTATION: 3:15 – 3:30 PM
• KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: 3:30 – 4:30 PM
• RECEPTION: 4:30 – 5:30 PM

Sponsored by: 51ÁÔÆæ Urban Studies Programs, the Maier Fund, the Center for Economic Development, the Public and Nonprofit Administration program, the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures program, the Department of Geography, the Department of History, the Department of Sociology and the College of Letters and Science

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