Native American History and Culture – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Marcus Cederstrom

fpuleo — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:47:04 +0000

Marcus Cederström earned his B.A. from the University of Oregon in Sports Business, History, and Scandinavian Studies and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a folklorist working in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at UW-Madison as the community curator of Nordic-American folklore for the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” project. His research interests include immigration to the United States, identity formation, North American Indigenous communities, and sustainability.

Sarah Clayton

mreinfeldt — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:33:42 +0000

Sarah Clayton is an archaeologist who studies the growth and decline of the world’s earliest urban capitals and their impacts on surrounding landscapes and communities. She conducts field research in Mexico, where she investigates everyday life and social change at Teotihuacan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was the largest city of its time in the Americas. Rural-urban interaction, migration, and identity are major themes of her work. She is currently director of the Chicoloapan Archaeological Project, which examines community formation, land use, and resilience in association with the collapse of a regional state. Clayton’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation and conducted in collaboration with local community members and researchers from Mexico, the U.S., and France. She has been with UW-Madison since 2010.

Dr. Clayton prefers in-person talks only.

Michelle Cloud

mreinfeldt — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:32:04 +0000

Michelle Cloud is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and serves as the Nation’s Principal Investigator for the UW-Madison Indigenous Arts & Sciences program for the past 8 years. She is a nationally trained Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity (S.E.E.D.) facilitator and has led educator and community based social justice groups for the past decade in several school districts and communities in what is now known as Wisconsin. Michelle holds three degrees but she considers the lifelong cultural knowledge she learned from her elders and sacred knowledge keepers as her proudest achievement.

John Hall

jnweaver — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:00:06 +0000

John W. Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at UW–Madison. He holds a B.S. in History from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He specializes in American military history with particular emphasis on early and Native American warfare. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare, including “An Irregular Reconsideration of George Washington and the American Military Tradition,” Journal of Military History (July 2014), which won an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Prize. He is a past president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Annie Jones

mreinfeldt — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:26:04 +0000

Annie has worked with Extension for 25 years serving in a variety of capacities including Associate Dean, Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Directions and a county-based Community Development Educator. Annie’s areas of research include indigenous methodologies like the use of the Native American medicine wheel and cultural teachings to enhance planning and evaluation. Annie specializes in participatory and community-based action research.

Stephen Kantrowitz

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:01:19 +0000

Stephen Kantrowitz writes and teaches about race, citizenship, and Native American-settler interactions in the nineteenth-century United States. His most recent work explores the transformation of American citizenship in the Civil War era through the experiences of the Ho-Chunk people. Professor Kantrowitz was born in Boston, earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and has been teaching at UW–Madison since 1995. He is Plaenert-Bascom and Vilas Distinguished Professor of History and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for his scholarship and teaching.

Melissa Metoxen

mreinfeldt — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:44:50 +0000

Melissa F. Metoxen is a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She has worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2010. Her experiences as a first generation college student inspired her career in higher education. She works to ensure Native American students have access to college and have the support and resources to be successful. Through her work at NACHP (nay-chip), she enhances the recruitment and retention of Native American students to health careers, while maintaining the established partnerships she has with tribes across the state. With these partnerships, she has developed clinical opportunities for students and research partnerships for faculty. The opportunities enhance student experiences, and create career pathways in tribal health. Her works to ensure the community partnerships add visibility of the rich contributions tribal communities bring to the state and university.

Richard Monette

jbedermann — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:22:17 +0000

Professor of Law, on faculty since 1992. Former Chairman and CEO, Turtle Mountain Chippewa

Larry Nesper

fpuleo — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:55:32 +0000

Larry Nesper received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994. He wrote a book on the Chippewa spearfishing conflict in Wisconsin in the 1980s and 90s. He is also a consultant for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and several of the Wisconsin tribes.

Janice Rice

fpuleo — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:31:14 +0000

Currently not accepting talk requests.

Janice Rice is a member of Ho-Chunk Nation & is a retired librarian with a focus on American Indian resources, literature, culture, history, language preservation & revitalization. She received her bachelors degree in Education, with an Area of Concentration in American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her MLS & MLS Advanced degree in American Indian Librarianship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received the Women of Color in Education Awards from UW-Madison & the UW-System in 2009.

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