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: 51���� Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge (2200 E. 51����., 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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Kudos to all the contributors and the e.polis editorial team. Thanks to Tatiana Danilova (this year’s Production Editor), Yuchen Zhao (last year’s Production Editor), and the rest of the editorial board for putting together a significant issue.

Issue summary:

• Scholar Profile:��USP’s newest faculty affiliate,��Andrew Kincaid��– a literary journey on the meaning of urban space and place.
• Articles:
  • Jack Rongstad��(USP MS student) on public subsidies in stadium construction in Milwaukee and the discourses surrounding them.
  • Jamee N. Pritchard��(PhD Candidate, African and African Diaspora Studies) on Nalo Hopkinson’s��Brown Girl in the Ring, using liberation psychology to explore speculative fiction as transformative liberation for Black women.
• Best Undergraduate Capstone Paper:��Isabella Wineke��(Urban Studies BA alumna) on tree canopy disparities across Milwaukee neighborhoods.
• Book review:��Derek G. Handley’s��Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement��(reviewed by��Russell Star-Lack, MS-MLIS alumnus).

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