At public works seminar, panelists will discuss how humanities scholars can improve their experiences and results with media outlets from radio and podcasts to leading news outlets. You’ll learn best practices on how to pitch stories, prepare and execute interviews, translate research for a general audience, develop relationships with reporters, and represent findings and research online.
To join: This Public Works Seminar is open to graduate students, faculty, and staff in the humanities and social sciences. Space is limited and registration is required. To join, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: weindling@wisc.edu. We welcome you to bring a lunch, and light refreshments will be available.
Panelists
Richelle Wilson is a producer for Wisconsin Today, a statewide talk show from Wisconsin Public Radio, where she produces broadcast segments and writes stories about the news, people, and culture of Wisconsin. Before coming to WPR, Wilson worked as a university instructor, managing editor of the Edge Effects digital magazine and podcast, producer of A Public Affair at WORT 89.9 FM, and producer and host of Public Trust, a podcast miniseries about PFAS contamination in Wisconsin co-produced by Midwest Environmental Advocates and Wisconsin Sea Grant through a Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship. She is a freelance academic editor and holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Douglas Haynes is a writer and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. His most recent book is Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-Based Learning in College and Beyond. He is also the author of the narrative nonfiction book Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters and a chapbook of poetry, Last Word. Douglas is also a widely published journalist and the Monday host of the talk program A Public Affair on community radio WORT in Madison.
Dr. Sami Schalk is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UW-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined and Black Disability Politics. Dr. Schalk’s research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American culture. Currently she is working on two books about pleasure activism. Dr. Schalk has also written for a variety of mainstream outlets and regularly speaks at universities and non-profit organizations around the country.