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Urbanization and rainfall-runoff relationships in the Milwaukee River Basin
(2016-01-01)
To understand the changing rainfall-runoff relationship, the study examined climate and streamflow data in the Milwaukee River Basin in southeastern Wisconsin, of which four catchments with different degrees of urbanization ...
Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood
(2015-01-01)
The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures collaborative project at UW Milwaukee and Madison introduces an interdisciplinary research track concentrating on the examination of the physical, cultural, and social aspects of our built ...
Intersectional Experiences of Violence: Studying the Serial Murder of 16 Men and Boys in Milwaukee, 1987-1991
(2020-05-01)
Between the years of 1987 and 1991, 16 multiply-marginalized men and boys went missing in the City of Milwaukee; few other than their family and friends noticed. In 1991, it was discovered that they were murdered by Jeffrey ...
“We Were the Outsiders and Treated as Such:” Community Activism and the Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Race Among Latinas in Milwaukee
(2018-05-01)
This dissertation analyzes the activism of Latinas in Milwaukee during the 1970s and 1980s. I interviewed women involved in community organizing in that time and place; they shared with me their experiences, and their ...
The Tale of Two Cities: a Feminist Critique of Economic Development & Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Milwaukee
(2018-08-01)
In this dissertation, I examine how race articulates with economic development in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drawing on two years of participant observation with the Milwaukee Fight for 15; participant observation of public ...
"Buried...like a Human Being" at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery: a Bioarchaeological Approach to Defining Fetal and Infant Personhood Through Biological Development, Historical Discourse, and Diapering
(2019-05-01)
The ambiguity of life is visible in the complex sets of beliefs that cultures develop around abortion, stillbirth, and neonatal death. This research grew out of ambiguities surrounding bioarchaeological methods of age ...
Brew City Black Ball: Milwaukee as Microcosm of the Early-Twentieth Century Black Baseball Experience
(2020-08-01)
While historians have learned a great deal about the Black professional baseball played during organized baseball’s Jim Crow era, there are many teams whose stories are yet to be told. Two of these teams, the McCoy-Nolan ...
Measured Expectations: An Examination of Urban Agriculture Development and Operations in Milwaukee, WI
(2018-08-01)
Urban agriculture has begun to shape urban spaces throughout the United States. Building from research on urban agriculture projects in Milwaukee I argue that in order for researchers to better understand urban agriculture, ...
Assessment and Mapping of the Milwaukee Estuary Habitat
(2018-05-01)
Rivermouth regions such as the Milwaukee Harbor, are the habitat interface between watersheds and the Great Lakes proper, and can host a large diversity of fishes. To facilitate an ecosystem approach management strategy, ...
That Other Form of Madness: A Multidisciplinary Study of Infectious Disease Within the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
(2019-08-01)
Between the years of 1882 and 1925, the Milwaukee County Poor Farm buried several thousand members of Milwaukee’s indigent population in what would later be designated Cemetery II. In 1991 and early 1992, after discovery ...