News Archive

Linothorax Project

The UWGB Linothorax Project is an ongoing investigation that seeks to reconstruct one of the most famous types of ancient armor and then field-test its capabilities.  It is a collaboration between Prof. Gregory S. Aldrete and a group of current and former UWGB students.

Nielsen awarded the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize

Professor Kim Nielsen has been awarded the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for the best article in the field of southern women’s history published in 2007.  The prize committee notes that Nielsen’s article, “The Southern Ties of Helen Keller,” published in the Journal of Southern History,  “offers a compelling thesis about Helen Keller’s southern identity and demonstrates both careful research and a well-written nuanced style, making a significant contribution to scholarship on Southern women’s history.” Nominations for this prize have been solicited from over 40 professional journals and academic presses.

Kersten wins the Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship

Professor Andrew Kersten has been awarded the Founders Association Award for Excellence in Scholarship for 2008.   In just 11 years at UW-Green Bay, Kersten has published no fewer than six books, with a seventh forthcoming, as well as forty articles, chapters, or encyclopedia entries and about thirty book reviews.  Kersten’s research has addressed issues in labor history, the law, race relations in mid-20th-century America, and the American home front in World War II.  Kersten received the Founders Association Award for Teaching in 2007.

New Book by Ganyard

Ganyard BookArtur Mahraun and the Young German Order: An Alternative to National Socialism in Weimar Political Culture
by Clifton Greer Ganyard

Professor Ganyard’s book is the first monograph to devote itself to the ideology of the Young German Order, a right-wing nationalist organization during Germany’s Weimar Republic.  It affords a closer examination of the role ideas played in the development of Weimar political culture as charted through the ideological clash of the Young German Order and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.

 

 

Professor Harvey Kaye talks about Thomas Paine

 

Founders Award for Kersten

Professor Andrew Kersten has been awarded the Founders Association Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2007.  The Award Committee cited Professor Kersten's rigor, experimentation, and willingness to take risks in his approaches to teaching as well as his consistently high course evaluations from students.  In addition, Professor Kersten created the Northeastern Wisconsin Teaching American History Program in 2002, a program he directed to improve teaching, learning, and student achievement in history.

 

New Book by Aldrete

Aldrete bookFloods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome
by Gregroy S. Aldrete

Professor Aldrete's new book is the first book-length treatment of the impact of flooding on an ancient city.  Drwaing upon both ancient and modern sources, Aldrete examines how the Romans attempted to alleviate and even to prevent the floods of the Tiber and considers the social and cultural impact such floods had when they did happen.

 

 

New Book by Lockard

Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global HistoryA Global History book cover
by Craig Lockard

"Societies, Networks, and Transitions is a world history text that connects the different regions of the world through global themes. This innovative structure combines the accessibility of a regional approach with the rigor of comparative scholarship to show students world history in a truly global framework.  The text also features a strong focus on culture and religion [and] engages students with a unique approach to cultural artifacts such as music and art."

Founders Award for Aldrete

Professor Gregory Aldrete has been awarded the Founders Association Award for Excellence in Scholarship.  Aldrete has published five books and three chapters in anthologies in addition to numerous articles and reviews. He is only the second UW-Green Bay faculty member to receive a Humanities Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  His research is a model of interdisciplinarity, with one work combining history, urban studies, political science, literature and philosophy.  This is Aldrete's second Founders award, having won the award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.

Award for Kaye

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

Professor Harvey J. Kaye has won a 2006 Outstanding Achievement award from the Wisconsin Library Association for his book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.

 

Ganyard, Nice and Voelker

Ganyard, Nice, and Voelker awarded Intercampus Community of Practice (ICoP) Grants to incorporate new communication technologies in the redesign of their courses.  Along with Donna Ritch (Human Biology) and Andy Speth (Learning Technology Center), they will engage in conversations with colleagues from across the UW-System to improve the use of technologies such as blogs, wikis, and games in the classroom.  Ganyard, Nice, and Voelker all regularly teach large general education courses such as  Foundations of Western Culture and History of the United States.

 

American Labor and Civil Rights: Professor Kersten's Two New Books Labor's Home Front

Labor's Home Front:
The American Federation of Labor and World War II

In Labor's Home Front, "Kersten details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, its constant battles with the CIO, and its significant efforts to reshape American society, economics, and politics after the war.... [D]espite its conservative nature, the AFL was dramatically transformed during World War II, becoming a more powerful progressive force that pushed for liberal change."

A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard

"In this engaging new book, historian Andrew Kersten explores Randolph's significant influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights leader. Kersten pays particular attention to Randolph's political philosophy, his involvement in the labor and civil rights movements, and his dedication to improving the lives of American workers."

Samurai, Sumo, & Sushi

At the end of May, Clifton Ganyard, Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies, and Kristy Aoki, Office of International Education, led ten students, faculty, and staff on a 19-day travel course to Japan. The group visited Tokyo, Nagano, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, and Osaka, where they explored Japan's rich history and culture.

Photo: UW-Green Bay students, faculty and staff poses near the ornate Osaka Castle during their 19-day study tour of Japan.

In front of Osaka Castle: Anthony Malcore, Mike Anzia, Maura Vazquez, Kelly Wenig, Adam Hofsperger, Kristy Aoki, James Werner (back), Danielle Le Sage, Clif Ganyard, Mark Roe, Curt Heuer, and Paula Ganyard.

History Come Alive at UWGB

SPQR: Roman Legions invade UWGB campus!  Professor Greg Aldrete teaches students about Roman Legionnaires and Gladiators: http://wwwtest.uwgb.edu/roman/slideshow.html
(Click on the picture to start the slide show.)

...and about the Greek Phalanx:
 http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/photoblog/ancientgreece.htm

New Book by Kaye

Thomas Paine and the Thomas Paine and the Promise of America Promise of America
by Harvey J. Kaye

The revolutionary spirit that runs through American history and whose founding father and greatest advocate was Thomas Paine is fiercely traced in Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals—and how we have remained radicals at heart ever since—Harvey J. Kaye presents the nation’s democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion.

Bill Moyers calls it "The best political book of the year!”

Nielsen

Kim Nielsen has been selected by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies for a two-week residency in Japan. Based out of Japanese Women's University, Tokyo, she'll be giving seminars to graduate students on United States women's and disability history.

 

New Book by Aldrete

Daily Life in the Roman CityDaily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia
by Gregory S. Aldrete

 In Gregory Aldrete's exhaustive account, readers will have the opportunity to peer into the inner workings of daily life in ancient Rome, to witness the full range of glory, cruelty, sophistication, and deprivation that characterized Roman cities, and will perhaps even gain new insight into the nature and history of urban existence in America today.

 

 

Ganyard

Clifton Ganyard attended the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) National Faculty Development Institute on "Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum" at San Diego State University, 1-24 June, 2005.

New book by Nielsen

The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
by Kim Nielsen

"Nielsen's study challenges our impoverished cultural memories of Keller, which may have for too long served to "flatten" both our understanding not just of Keller's complex, contradictory life, but also the politics of disability, U.S. racialism, and women's political activities."
- On Campus with Women