Month: May 2025

Last month, Professor Alexander Shashko was awarded the L&S Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Award. Selected by the Dean of L&S, Eric Wilcots, and a selection committee, this award recognizes excellence in teaching and mentoring undergraduate …

Professor Carl Grant, former Chair of the Department of African American Studies and professor of Curriculum and Instruction, has been awarded the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes outstanding efforts in teaching and service. …

This week, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara appeared on PBS Wisconsin’s “Why Race Matters” segment in an episode on the history of Black Midwesterners before the Great Migration. “If you wanted to understand wealth gaps among African …