University of Wisconsin–Madison

KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN | SANDRA ADELL

Know Your Madisonian: UW-Madison professor is teacher, actress, director, model, author    

DRAMATIZING HISTORY AND OPERA AS ACTIVISM

DRAMATIZING HISTORY AND OPERA AS ACTIVISM Led by dramaturg Cori Ellison With composers  Jeremy Howard Beck Anthony Davis and Laura Kaminsky; librettists Thulani Davis, Richard Wesley, Stephanie Fleischmann, Kimberly Reed, and Mark Campbell; and memoirist Brian Castner This is a three-part seminar and roundtable occurring on the following dates: Part I: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 …

Wisconsin’s Black History Is Complex and Largely Unacknowledged, Say Historians

Black Movement and Suffrage in Wisconsin

Studies show Wisconsin often ranks among the worst states for African Americans to make a life. We explore early Black migration to the Midwest, racial relations and African American voting rights. Host: Molly Stentz Guest(s): Christy Clark-Pujara

Black History of Wisconsin, Part 2: Breaking Chains

Paul J. Schrag Lecture: James Q Whitman (Yale)

The UW-Madison Department of History & the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Present: The 2021 Paul J. Schrag Lecture “The American Influence on Nazi Race Law: Assessing U.S. Responsibility” James Q. Whitman (Yale) Co-sponsored by The Department of Afro-American Studies

Project to create anti-racism education wins Mellon grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Associate Professor Christy Clark-Pujara is part of this research team Selected as one of 16 winning projects in the Mellon Foundation’s “Just Futures Initiative” competition, the …

Dr. Franklin Delano Wilson (1942-2020)

Dr. Franklin Delano Wilson (1942-2020) Dr. Franklin D. Wilson came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology in 1973 and retired as the distinguished William H. Sewell-Bacom Emeritus Professor of Sociology in 2007. Prior to arriving in Madison, he was an Instructor in Sociology at Grambling College in …

Assistant Professor Christy Clark-Pujara Discusses Statue Debate and Historical Commemoration

Christy Clark-Pujara and Steve Kantrowitz appeared on our local public radio station last Friday to discuss the debate over historical commemoration and the removal of public statues.   https://www.wpr.org/debate-over-statues-and-what-we-choose-remember    

Afro-American Studies Letter SRO Contract

AAS Letter re SRO Contract   To:     Members of the Madison School Board of Education From: The Department of Afro-American Studies RE:    Security Resource Officers Date: June 29, 2020   As scholars and teachers of African American history and experience – and, for some of us, as parents of current and former Madison public school …