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Victor Greene, Emeritus Professor

Office: Holton 383
Phone: (414) 229-3965
E-mail: vicgre@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1963

Current Research Interests
Ethnic influences in popular art and music

Current Teaching Interests:
Ethnic history
Labor history
Popular culture
Research methods

Other Relevant Activities:
Advisor to Old World Wisconsin Museum, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, and member, Executive Board, Milwaukee County Historical Society

Publications:
A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old and New (Kent State University Press, 2004)

"Dealing with Diversity: Milwaukee's Multi-Ethnic Festivals and Urban Identity, 1840-1940," Journal of Urban History, forthcoming

A Passion for Polka: Old Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992.
Council for Wisconsin Writers Award
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award

American Immigrant Leaders, 1800-1910; Marginality and Identity. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

For God and Country; Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America. Society Press, 1975.

Slavic Community On Strike (1968)

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