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As he graduates from college, Shue Vang reflects on his childhood years when discrimination at school diminished his education. Shue Vang defied all odds. As a Hmong student at UW-Green Bay, he experienced equal...
Experts also discuss how people viewed abortion when Wisconsin’s 19th century ban was passed By Colleen Leahy Historical analyses of abortion vary widely. Depending on what you read, abortion in early America was commonplace,...
Professor Kaden Paulson-Smith recently spoke on a roundtable at the 2022 Social Science History Association conference, “Reverberations of Empire: Histories, Legacies & Lineages.” Prof. Paulson-Smith shared new research on “Centering Colonization and Resistance in...
Wisconsin’s 1858 law banning most abortions has been in effect since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. But how did we get here? Why did that law stay on the books...
An excerpt of UW-Green Bay Prof. Jon Shelton’s forthcoming book The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy was recently featured in Jacobin. Read the piece here.
Prof. Kimberley Reilly has published an article in Ms. Magazine titled “Abortion Rights and the ‘Quick Child’: The Misuse of History in Wisconsin’s Abortion Ban.” Reilly explains that Wisconsin’s 1849 law (now in effect)...
Sociologists from around the nation convened in Nashville, Tennessee last week to participate in the Mid-South Sociological Association Conference around the theme “Beyond Sundown: Sociologist Seeking Past Truths, Present Justice, and Possible Futures,” held...
Rachel Scray, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Profs. Heidi Sherman, Humanities and History and Jon Shelton, Democracy and Justice Studies and History presented with Brent Hensel, Curator of the Packers Hall...
Corrections officers from Green Bay Correctional Institution (GBCI) visited student in “Introduction to Democracy and Justice Studies” on Thursday, to talk about what it is like to work in GBCI. One of the officers...
UW-Green Bay professor, Kimberley Reilly was featured in the Green Bay Press Gazette for her collaboration with Deb Anderson, director of archives at the Cofrin Library, to develop the the project “Our Voices: LGBTQ+...
