The UW-Madison Oral History Program (OHP) Minds@UW collection currently consists of oral histories from our collection, presentations recorded as part of their Wisconsin Oral History Day, and podcasts created as part of the OHP's & UW Digital Collections Center's UW-Madison Campus Voices project.

Recent Submissions

  • Oral History Interview, Finn Enke (2563) 

    Enke, Finn (2025-07-17)
    In his July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Finn Enke discusses how the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison has evolved since joining in 2001. He mentions the main conversations that were ...
  • Oral History Interview, Stephanie Rytilahti (2557) 

    Rytilahti, Stephanie (2025-07-17)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizbeth Thomas, Stephanie Rytilahti discusses her career in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Madison ...
  • Oral History Interview, Virginia Sapiro (2558) 

    Sapiro, Virginia (2025-08-05)
    In her August 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Virginia Sapiro discusses her longtime role in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She started as a member of the first tenure-track faculty ...
  • Oral History Interview, Annie Menzel (2555) 

    Menzel, Annie (2025-08-05)
    In her August 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Annie Menzel discusses her role as a professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison. She first started as a lecturer in 2013 before entering ...
  • Oral History Interview, Keisha Lindsay (2554) 

    Lindsay, Keisha (2025-08-05)
    In her August 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, professor Keisha Lindsay details her career in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She started on the tenure track in 2010 and originally became ...
  • Oral History Interview, Tracy Lemaster (2553) 

    Lemaster, Tracy (2025-06-30)
    In her June 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Tracy Lemaster discusses her 15-year career with UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She began as a TA, with professor Susan Friedman being a ...
  • Oral History Interview, Katherine Phelps (2549) 

    Phelps, Katherine (2025-07-07)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Katherine Phelps discusses her role in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She joined the department in 2017 and currently works as both teaching ...
  • Oral History Interview, Rachel Kuo (2551) 

    Kuo, Rachel (2025-07-15)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Rachel Kuo details her role in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison. She recalls joining the department the year prior in 2024 and what originally ...
  • Oral History Interview, Judith Houck (2546) 

    Houck, Judith (2025-07-29)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Houck details her journey in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison, starting as a graduate and TA and becoming a professor and chair of ...
  • Oral History Interview, Janet Hyde (2547) 

    Hyde, Janet (2025-08-01)
    In her August 2025 interview, Janet Hyde, Professor Emerit of Psychology and Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS), describes her academic journey to UW-Madison. After earning her PhD from UC-Berkeley, she was hired as an ...
  • Oral History Interview, Cabell Gathman (2545) 

    Gathman, Cabell (2025-08-05)
    In her August 2025 interview with Edwin ElizabethThomas, Cabell Gathman discusses her teaching journey in the University of Wisconsin’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She started as a TA in 2008, earning her ...
  • Oral History Interview, Christine Garlough (2544) 

    Garlough, Christine (2025-08-05)
    In her August 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Christine Garlough describes her role in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison as a professor and director of its center for research. She ...
  • Oral History Interview, Sara Chadwick (2523) 

    Chadwick, Sara (2025-07-16)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Sara Chadwick, assistant professor in Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) and Psychology at UW-Madison, discusses her initial interest in the two fields and her thoughts ...
  • Oral History Interview, Kelly Ward (2562) 

    Ward, Kelly (2025-07-17)
    In her 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Kelly Ward discusses her role as an assistant professor in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She speaks to how the department has evolved since her ...
  • Oral History Interview, Mark Dorman (2609) 

    Dorman, Mark (2026-01-08)
    In his January 2026 interview with Troy Reeves, Mark Dorman discusses his time as a UW-Madison undergraduate student beginning in 1972. Before coming to UW-Madison, Dorman enlisted in the Navy in 1968 and was released in ...
  • Oral History Interview, Nicholas Syrett (2564) 

    Syrett, Nicholas (2025-07-01)
    In his July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Nicholas Syrett describes his role as the incoming chair of the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at UW-Madison. He discusses his initial interest in the GWS ...
  • Oral History Interview, Amber Steiger (2560) 

    Steiger, Amber (2025-07-31)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Amber Steiger discusses her experience as a second-year PhD student in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. She mentions taking a gender studies ...
  • Oral History Interview, Kelsey Foster (2543) 

    Foster, Kelsey (2025-07-30)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Kelsey Foster describes her role in the Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the administrative assistant in the Office ...
  • Oral History Interview, Samantha Schalk (2559) 

    Schalk, Samantha (2025-07-17)
    In her July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Samantha Schalk discusses her career as a professor in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department, which she joined in 2017. She recalls her initial ...
  • Oral History Interview, GWS Squad (2565) 

    Gratrix, Jamie; Greco, Lachrista; Hoff, Lindsey (2025-07-16)
    In their July 2025 interview with Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, Lachrista Greco, Jamie Gratrix, and Lindsey Hoff discuss their administrative roles in UW-Madison’s Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Department. Greco has served as ...

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