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 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.
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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 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
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.
Marc Tasman's redesign of the American flag is among the works of contemporary art on display at the fourth annual Mary L. Nohl exhibit at UWM's Inova-Vogel Gallery through December 9. The gallery, located at 3253 N. Downer Ave., is open noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=678747
Marc Tasman presented a paper, "Performance of Anti-Semitism as Jewish Activist Art," at an international conference on the legacy of the Holocaust at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in May.
The paper analyzes various reactions to the "ironic" racism of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat.
The conference program is at: http://www.uni.edu/klink/confprog-5-7-07.pdf
During a post-conference tour of museums, sites, and institutions in southern Poland with conference participants, Tasman collected images for a documentary video dealing with the construction of the Galitzianer identity in the region.
On the tour he discovered where his great-grandmother was murdered, Belzec, the former Nazi death camp where her remains are presumably interred along with about 500,000 other victims.
Dennis Getto, who taught JMC courses for more than two decades, died of pulmonary fibrosis on July 24 at the age of 57. He was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's well-known restaurant critic.
"He passed on his love of good journalism and the pleasures of life to a whole generation of reviewing and feature writing classes," said Jeff Smith, department chair. "He was an ever-cheerful presence and will be deeply missed by all of us."
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Jamaal Abdul-Alim, an ad hoc lecturer in JMC, has been named a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. His project will be the impact of incentives on student achievement.
Abdul-Alim, an eduction reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is one of thirteen American journalists in the program. Additional fellows from other nations will be named later.While on leave from regular duties, Knight-Wallace Fellows pursue sabbatical studies and attend twice-weekly seminars at Wallace House, a gift from newsman Mike Wallace and his wife Mary.
Gifts from foundations, news organizations, and individuals provide each Knight-Wallace Fellow with all academic fees and a stipend of $55,000.
For more information, go to: http://www.mjfellows.org/news/
Carol Stabile, associate professor, will be a plenary session speaker at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association in Portland, Oregon, on April 21. The topic will be "Post-9/11 America and the World." She will also present a paper, "White Men Remember the Family," on April 19.
Stabile is the author of the book White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in U.S. Culture (2006).
JMC faculty member Jessica McBride will receive two statewide Excellence in Journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club at its Gridiron Dinner on April 28.
Her "McBride Media Matters" blog for WTMJ 620 AM won first place in the category of best web-only commentary.
Her blog's "Starfish" story, which chronicles her mentorship of an inner city youth in Milwaukee, was awarded second-place in the category of best feature originally published on a website.
For the list of winners of the 2006 Wisconsin Excellence in Journalism awards, go to: http://www.milwaukeepressclub.org/news/view/27
Marc Tasman's video "Who Is Stealing My Signs?" has been chosen for the 45th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival in late March. The festival, a showcase for independent and experimental work, selected less than five percent of approximately 2,000 entries from more than 25 nations.
For the schedule of the festival's films, see: http://www.aafilmfest.org/archives/45th-competition-films-announced.
Jan 19, 2007 - An interview with Assistant Professor Elana Levine was broadcast on WUWM radio's "UWM Today" program on Thursday, January 18, at 1:30 p.m. The topic was her book "Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of the 1970s American Television" recently published by Duke University Press. The program was repeated on Sunday, January 21, at 7:30 p.m. Journal Sentinel article
UWM broadcast journalism students have swept the news and sports reporting categories in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association's statewide collegiate journalism contest.
Student reporters for UWM PantherCast and UWM PantherVision won a total of seven awards, capturing first place in each of the sports and news reporting categories:
RADIO
Best News Story, First Place
Chris Eckert, Hunger Cleanup
Best News Story, Second Place
Theresa Lee, Bell Ringers
Best Sports Story, First Place
Chris Eckert, Beach Volleyball
Best Newscast, Third Place
UWM PantherCast, Mike Mahan and Leah Ganjbakhsh producers
TELEVISION
Best News Story, First Place
Mike Hawes and Angela Feltes, Car Share
Best News Story, Third Place
Jason Bean and Mega Nayak, Bio Research
Best Sports Story, First Place
Tim Elliott and David Van Goethem, Horizon Championship
The students will receive their awards at the WBA Student Seminar/Awards Luncheon on February 24, 2007, in Madison.
PantherCast is a radio newscast produced by students in the department's radio news reporting class, and PantherVision is weekly television newscast produced by students in the department¹s television reporting and news management classes.
Jan 13, 2007 - Milwaukee radio legend Bob Reitman, who recently retired from WKTI, was interviewed by PantherCast reporters Theresa Lee and Ryan Klund about his career, his new weekly music show on WUWM, and why he wants to hear from college students. A portion of that interview can be heard by logging on to PantherCast at http://panthercast.blogspot.com/
Dec 04, 2006 - "Enough is Enough" is the focus theme for a Dec. 5 anti-gun violence rally and open mic memorial tribute planned in the memory of Joe Munz, a former UWM student who was robbed and killed while making a delivery to a home on the east side.
The money raised at the event, sponsored by the Minority Media Association of UW-Milwaukee, a student group that promotes diversity on campus, will be donated to "The Bickham Project," a youth mentorship program that works in Milwaukee Public Schools with students interested in communications.
That group was created by the father of a man killed in a triple homicide three years ago. The campus event, hosted by The Minority Media Association of UWM, will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 5, from 7:00 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the UWM Union's Wisconsin Ballroom, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. The mission of the concert is to ensure campus unity and to fight gun violence. Music will be provided by "The Last Chapter," a Milwaukee band.
The entrance fee will be $5. For more information, please visit the Minority Media Association's Facebook website. "We want to make sure that Joe's death is not forgotten," said Maria Childs, president of the MMA organization and a UWM student. "We are trying to mobilize the university community to use this tragedy to combat gun violence, since shootings are up 34% this year in Milwaukee, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. We want this situation to create unity in the community and spark real change."
The concert will include an open-mic segment, which will be open to the community to voice its opinion on issues involving violence and solutions. Speakers include Munz's roommate and friends, and Kirk Bickham, founder of "The Bickham Project." In 2004, Kirk Bickham's son was slain in a triple homicide on Milwaukee's north side. Bickham turned the tragedy into a foundation to help enhance Milwaukee's youth, providing them with realistic role models who work with them. The organization's focus is to emphasize to the children that the quality of their decisions will ultimately determine the quality of their life. "We want to build on what he started," Childs said.
The MMA is a campus club dedicated to increasing diversity in the student body, as well as providing support for students interested in media careers. The group's home page is at www.uwm.edu/~mcbridej/mmahomepage.html.
Dec 27, 2006 - JMC Lecturer Marc Tasman has received a $5,000 Mary L. Nohl fellowship for
emerging artists. His work as photographer, artist, and performer can be seen at marctasman.com.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
Nov 16, 2006 - Elana Levine, JMC assistant professor, lead a discussion about media and the family after the screening of a Media Education Foundation documentary, "Class Dismissed," on Wednesday, November 29, at the UWM Union Art Gallery.
The one-hour documentary examined the representation of the working class and its intersection with gender and race throughout American television history.
The gallery exhibit "Marriage, Home, and Family" opened on November 17.