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Barbara Ley
Barbara Ley's book, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement, will be published by Rutgers University Press in July 2009. This book examines the development of the U.S environmental breast cancer movement and its political, scientific, and cultural efforts to prevent the disease by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals. http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/From_Pink_to_Green.html
Marc Tasman
Marc Tasman will show a significant portion of his Ten Year Polaroid
Project, in which he has photographed himself everyday for ten years
(July 24, 1999- July 23, 2009), in the group exhibition "Flickers of
Recognition: Technology and the Self Portrait," at the Peninsula
School of Art in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. The show runs from June 5-
July 16. http://tinyurl.com/flickersofrecognition
2008
Jessica McBride
Jessica McBride has been chosen to receive the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association's 2008-09 Excellence Award for Non-tenure Track Instructors. She will be honored at the Alumni Association's Holiday Reception on December 5, 2008.
Paul Brewer
Paul Brewer has published Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights. The book examines how the politics of gay rights has evolved in recent years and illuminates the broader tensions in American politics. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com
Elana Levine
Elana Levine's latest book is a volume of television criticism published by Duke University Press. Levine co-edited and contributed to Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The book examines stardom, gender identity, race, spectatorship, fandom, intertextuality, and other issues. http://www.dukeupress.edu
Tess Gallun
Tess Gallun has completed a documentary filmed by and featuring inner city youth as they conducted research on zebra mussels in the Great Lakes water basin. The project was a collaboration with Teen Approach and The Jason Project. https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/tmgallun/public/Zebra%20Mussel.mov
David Pritchard
Professor David Pritchard and co-author Mary Lynn Young of the University of British Columbia have won the Rufus Z. Smith Award for the best article published in the American Review of Canadian Studies in 2006. The article, "Cross-Border Crime Stories: American Media, Canadian Law, and Murder in the Internet Age," appeared in the autumn issue.