Category: Faculty/Staff

Kain’s most recent publication appears as “The Transfer of St. Metropolitan Filipp’s Relics Reconsidered” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 25 (2025): 179-212. The essay reconsiders the transfer of St. Filipp’s relics to Moscow in 1652, recognizing it as an act of historical replication founded on annual religious commemorations and intended to contextualize Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich’s inheritance of…

Professor Emeritus Bob Howe and Erin Giese, Associate Director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, were recently published in Ecosphere. Their article, titled “Occurrence patterns and trends of frogs in coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes call for further habitat restoration”, highlights important new findings in anuran ecology within the Great Lakes. Using 13 years…

Professor David Voelker (History & Humanities) has published an op ed in the Cap Times titled “Democracy depends on historical understanding.” He argues that: “An evidence-based historical consciousness is essential for any democratic society. Historical knowledge and understanding provide necessary context for interpreting contemporary events and for holding governments and other institutions accountable.”

As outlined in the Administrator Feedback Survey Process website, the University Committee has developed a feedback survey to complement existing annual review procedures for administrators. This feedback process formally and systematically incorporates broad input from faculty, staff, and other members of the university community into the annual performance review process for administrators. During the 2024-2025 academic…

Professor David Voelker (History & Humanities) recently published an op ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the state of democracy in Wisconsin. The piece placed current political events in a historical context and offered an appraisal of the present-day situation. It can be accessed online here.

Professor David Voelker’s (History & Humanities) article “Aldo Leopold and Conservation in Green Bay” in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review includes a section on the influence of Leopold’s Sand County Almanac at UWGB during the early 1970s (and beyond). Voelker examined course catalogs and syllabi from the early seventies in the University Archives…

Professors David Voelker (History & Humanities), Aaron Weinschenk (Political Science), and David Helpap (Political Science and Public Administration) published an opinion essay in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal titled “Americans depend on a healthy public sector.” The op ed is also available online.