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Faculty note: Prof. Morgan has new publication

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Jun 24, 2021

UW-Green Bay Associate Prof. Eric J. Morgan (Democracy and Justice Studies and History) has a chapter featured in Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism and State Repression, edited by Johanna A. Solomon and recently published by Emerald Insight. Morgan’s chapter, “To Thread the Conscience: Michigan State University and the Anti-Apartheid Movement,”…

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Prof. Heidi Sherman awarded a Title VIII Fellowship

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May 10, 2021

Heidi Sherman (History and Humanities) has been awarded a Title VIII Fellowship by Indiana University Bloomington to pursue intensive language study at the Summer Language Workshop in Summer 2021. The fellowship will support participation in virtual classes in advanced Russian language, which will assist in furthering Prof. Sherman’s work on a monograph of the Viking…

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Amazon And The State Of Labor Unions Podcast (featuring Assoc. Prof Shelton) | WPR

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Apr 1, 2021

Associate Professor Jon Shelton (History) is a guest on this week’s WPR podcast about labor unions and the recent news about Amazon’s employees. Listen here! Source: Amazon And The State Of Labor Unions | WPR

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Faculty note: Associate Professor Shelton to be a Director for Labor and Working Class History Society in March

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Mar 10, 2021

In a competitive election, Associate Professor Jon Shelton (History) recently won a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Labor and Working-Class History Society, the preeminent professional organization for labor history in the U.S. His term starts this March. Congrats! This site has a full list of directors.

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Faculty note: Associate Provost Ganyard to step away from administrative role, return to teaching

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Mar 8, 2021

Clif Ganyard will be stepping down as Associate Provost and returning to his faculty position this summer. Ganyard is the University’s second-longest-serving associate provost and has boldly led a number of key initiatives including Project Coastal (the addition of campuses in Marinette, Manitowoc and Sheboygan to UW-Green Bay) and Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation. He…

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CAHSS Launches ‘No Reservations’ Speaker Series beginning Feb. 10

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Feb 3, 2021

UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is filled with brilliant teachers, scholars, and creatives. The goal of the college is to provide an accessible forum for sharing bold, challenging, and even radical ideas. Scholars from across the college will do one talk each month on topics ranging from connecting through music to…

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UW-Green Bay alumni recognized for extraordinary efforts as 2021 Golden Apple Teachers of Distinction

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Feb 1, 2021

UW-Green Bay graduates impact generations! Congratulations to the UW-Green Bay alumni selected as Teachers of Distinction in the first round of the Golden Apple Awards selection process. These outstanding teachers make a big impact on the students, parents and community. The teachers of Distinction and soon-to-be announced Golden Apple recipients will be honored at the…

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Biden moves quickly to show union workers that Democrats care, with Prof. Shelton

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Feb 1, 2021

“You have more and more Democrats realizing that Trump was able to peel off a lot of blue-collar voters and that you have to do something to empower working people,” said Jon Shelton, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Source: Biden moves quickly to show union workers that Democrats care, Los…

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Faculty note: Humanities and History lecturer Kevin Kain named Associate of Virtual Open Research Lab

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Jan 28, 2021

Senior lecturer Kevin Kain (Humanities and History) has been designated as an Associate of Virtual Open Research Laboratory (VORL) program at the Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Center, the University of Illinois in Spring 2021 for his research project “Resurrection ‘New Jerusalem’ Monastery in Reigns of Empresses Elizabeth I and Catherine II: Patronage, Power, Sacralization…

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Voyageur Magazine announces Winter/Spring 2021 issue

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Jan 25, 2021

Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review is pleased to announce the publication of its Winter/Spring 2021 issue, which features 10 articles. Now in its thirty-seventh year of publication, Voyageur is a collaboration between the Brown County Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Published twice a year since 1984, Voyageur is a nonprofit magazine dedicated…

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