Ben Fisher, associate professor of Civil Society & Community Studies, has been awarded a $1.7 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to study how security measures used by schools …
Civil Society and Community Studies
Finding belonging in art and community: PhD graduate Pascale Ife Williams leads through connection
A healing justice practitioner, woven into the tapestry of her research. That’s Pascale Ife Williams, a December 2022 graduate of UW–Madison’s Human Ecology PhD Program in Civil Society & Community Research. Beyond her degree title, …
Major grant will help teach UW’s roots in Indigenous land dispossession
Many students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison aren’t aware of the state’s full Indigenous history, nor the history of the university’s founding and early years. With the help of a recently-awarded major grant from the …
Campus First: Carolee Dodge Francis is first Native woman to chair a department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carolee Dodge Francis, EdD, Ecology of Human Well-Being Professor, grew up on the Menominee reservation in Northeastern Wisconsin. A member of the Oneida Nation, she was the first person in her immediate family to complete …