News and Events
Urban Studies Program News
USP faculty member Marc Levine's Op-Ed piece
It's no time for another cut to the UW System. Read JSOnline article
USP faculty member Jennifer Jordan on the importance of "living history"
Jordan talks about her interest in "living history" museums and her research on how living things (plants and animals) narrate the past on WUWM Lake Effect. Listen to interview
USP faculty member Noelle Chesley on The Impact of Switching Gender Roles
Chesley discusses the effect of men and women when they swap traditional roles in the home on WUWM Lake Effect. Listen to interview
UWM study: Trading work and family roles transformative
Nontraditional family roles in heterosexual couples could cause changes in marital relationships that promote gender equality – the opposite effect that traditional roles encourage, according to a study by a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Read UWM News article
Transit cuts put jobs out of reach of workers with out cars
More than 13,000 jobs would be out of reach for Milwaukee County residents without cars, if county officials adopt recommended cuts in bus service, a new report warns. Read Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
Urban Studies and Urban Affairs Association collaboration at UWM
The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has moved its home campus to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), in part because of UWM’s highly regarded Urban Studies Program, which offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in urban studies. Read UWM News article
Urban Studies to Temporarily Relocate
During the 2011-12 academic year, starting over winter break, occupants of floors 4-8 of Bolton Hall that includes Urban Studies will be moving temporarily to UWM’s newly-acquired Northwest Quadrant (formerly Columbia Hospital). After an HVAC renovation to Bolton Hall, USP will return to our updated quarters.
Urban Affairs Association
The Urban Affairs Association, the major professional organization of urbanists in the United States, has come to UWM! After being located at the University of Delaware for many years, the UAA relocated to Milwaukee in July. Executive Director Margaret Wilder and two graduate student Project Assistants work in the UAA’s UWM offices, which are temporarily located on the 9th floor of Curtin Hall. They will relocate to be near the USP offices in the future.
Program Events
Tuesday, March 27th, 2-3 pm
Urban Studies Programs Information Session
Union 250
Learn more about Urban Studies Programs! Join us for this March 27th info session about Urban Studies Programs: PhD, Master's, Undergraduate Major and Certificate. Get your questions answered about the application process, available funding support, and career opportunities in the field. (Another session will take place on April 3rd.) Info Session Poster
Tuesday, April 3rd, 6-7 pm
Urban Studies Programs Information Session
Union 179
Learn more about Urban Studies Programs! Join us for this April 3rd info session about Urban Studies Programs: PhD, Master's, Undergraduate Major and Certificate. Get your questions answered about the application process, available funding support, and career opportunities in the field. Info Session Poster
Friday, March 2, 2012
Graduate Student Colloquium Brown Bag. "Space, Power, Politics, Activism, and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary Athens: The Case of the Elliniko International Airport"
The case of Elliniko provides insights over power struggles between pro-growth coalitions seeking revenue-generating uses and citizen groups interested in quality of life issues. Event flyer
Friday, March 2, Noon - 1:00 pm, NWQ 5472
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
Graduate Student Workshop Series: "Demystifying the Prelim"
Please join us for the next workshop in our Graduate Student Workshop Series at noon in the USP Bolton 768 conference room. Two current USP doctoral students and two members of their prelim examination committees will discuss how they prepared for the prelim exam, what it was actually like, and what they would do differently based on their experience. Faculty reflections will include general advice on how to prepare for the exam. This workshop is aimed particularly at current doctoral students in Urban Studies, but any students who are planning to do a PhD in any field might find it useful.
Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
Milwaukee Summit
Join us for the 6th Annual Henry W. Maier State of Milwaukee Summit: Milwaukee and the Great Recession. The Summit will be held at the Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee, from 3:30 - 5 pm with the reception from 5-6 pm on Thursday, November 10, 2011. More information
October 26th at 5-6 pm
November 4th at 1-2 pm
Urban Studies Information Sessions
Please join us for the next info session about our four programs in Urban Studies: PhD, Master's, Undergraduate Major and Certificate. This informal info session will be an opportunity to learn more about the particular degree program you're interested in, and to have your questions answered about the application process, funding support that is available, and career opportunities in the field. Location: 768b Bolton Hall
Event flier
October 19, 2011
Graduate Student Colloquium
Michelle Radi, Urban Studies PhD Program dissertator, will present: The Heart of a Community: Milwaukee's Jewish Population and their Hospital. Presentation at 12 - 1:00 pm in Bolton 768B.
September 29 and 30, and October 2, 2011
The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe documentary to be shown during the Milwaukee Film Festival
The film "The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe" will be shown three times during the Milwaukee film festival at two venues (Thurs. 9/29: North Shore Theatre - 5:15pm; Fri. 9/30: Oriental Theater - 4:30-5:53pm; and, Sun. 10/2: Oriental - 12:30pm). Pruitt-Igoe is the public housing project in St. Louis that was demolished in the early 1970s. Some refer to its destruction as the iconic moment when modernism died.
There will be a discussion following each showing but the Friday event will include a panel led discussion with comments offered by Urban Studies and Geography professor, Judith Kenny, Urban Studies alumna, Dr. Phyllis Santacroce, and Ann Wilson of Milwaukee's Hillside Terrace Family Resource Center. This film is very well done and quite accessible for a wide audience. Those interested in public housing in particular and issues of the mid-century American city, race, and poverty in general will find it useful. View the trailer.
September 23, 2011
Urban Studies Programs Fall Social and Lecture: "Thick Injustice in the American Metropolis"
The USP Fall Social and Lecture is scheduled for 4 to 5:30 pm in the UWM Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive. Reception: 5:30 to 6:30 pm.The Keynote speaker wil be Dr. Todd Swanstrom, E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Policy at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Dr. Swanstrom will explore returning social justice to the center of urban policy debates, and address the foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. In addition to numerous other works of scholarship about the future ofAmerican cities, Dr. Swanstrom is the co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century and co-editor of the newly published Justice and the American Metropolis. This event is free and open to the public. Event flier -- PDF-121kb
September 19, 2011
Urban Studies Programs Alumni Workshop
Join us for Careers in Government alumni workshop on Monday, September 19th, at 3-4pm in the Urban Studies conference room (Bolton 768B). Suzanne Ludlow (MS, 86), a USP alumna, will discuss careers and working in local government, particularly in city planning fields. Ms. Ludlow is the current deputy city manager of Takoma Park, Maryland, just outside DC.
Those of you who might be considering careers in local government, or are interested in community and economic development, or are just curious about life after degree, would benefit from attending. Event flier -- PDF-397kb
August 23, 2011
New Student Orientation
USP New Student Orientation will be held on Tuesday August 23, 2011 from 1-3 in the Urban Studies Conference Room, Bolton 768. Start of the school year reception for new, continuing, faculty and staff to follow from 3-4.