Speakers Bureau

Speakers

UW-Marinette faculty are available to speak on topics listed below and on others, usually at no charge. To arrange for a speaker, contact the University Relations office by phone 715-735-4310 or by email at maureen.frawley@uwc.edu.

Consultancies

Faculty members in fields cited below are also available for consulting, surveys, environmental audits, and other services, usually for a fee.

Student Internships

Student interns are available by contacting faculty in areas listed below.

Student Volunteers

Students are available to volunteer for community organizations. If you need student volunteers, fill out this Volunteer Interest Form and email it to Mary Voyles.

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SPEAKERS BUREAU

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Dail Murray, Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology/Sociology
  • Belize: Community Development and Tourism
  • The Amish
  • Agricultural Sustainability and the Amish
  • Anthropology of Religion

ART

• James LaMalfa, Associate Professor, Art
  • Native American Art
  • Culture of Mesoamerica (The Maya)
  • Art and Architecture of Italy
  • Public Art: Wall Paintings and Sculpture
  • Digital Photography and Movies: The Wave of the Future
  • The da Vinci Code, Fact or Fiction: A detailed lecture with slides, on the real Leonardo da Vinci
  • Writing The da Vinci Diaries

ASTRONOMY

• Paul Erdman, Associate Professor, Astronomy/Physics
  • Topics related to astronomy

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

• Wendel Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Biology
  • Isle Royale: A Wilderness National Park
  • Population Literacy as a Part of Environmental Awareness
  • Sea Lamprey: An Exotic Species
  • The Wolf at our Door: Managing Endangered Species
  • Marinette County's Wild Lakes
  • Global Change Education
  • What is All this Talk about Biodiversity?
  • Travel by Rail: What getting out of the car can mean for you

COMMUNICATION AND THEATRE ARTS

• Paula Langteau, Campus Dean and CEO
  • Arthur Miller: The Man and his Work
• Rebecca Stone Thornberry, Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts
  • Topics related to theatre

COMPUTER SCIENCE

• Michael Bartlett , Associate Professor, Mathematics
  • Introduction to Microcomputers
  • MS Excel
  • MS PowerPoint

EDUCATION

• Cindy Bailey, Assistant Campus Dean for Student Services
• Career related topcis
• College Financial Aid
• Financial Aid
• Options in Higher Education
• Preparing for College
• Team-Building for Success
• Take Flight: Motivation and Leadership Enhancement
• Time Management
• Volunteering

• Albert Bugaj, Professor, Psychology
• Technology in Education
• Leadership
• Parent-Teacher Communication

• Paula Langteau, Campus CEO and Dean
  • What's New at UW-Marinette?
  • UW-Marinette: Where We've Been and Where We are Going
  • The Importance of a College Degree in Today's Economy

• Dail Murray, Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology/Sociology
  • The Adult Learner

• Gabriella Sheldon, Lecturer, English
  • Preparing for college writing and reading
  • English as a Second Language
  • Teaching in Foreign Countries
  • Education in Foreign Countries

ENGLISH

• Jennifer Flatt, Professor, English/Spanish
  • Victorian Literature
  • Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte
  • George Eliot
  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Christianity and Literature
  • Christian Feminism (and relationship to literature)
  • Math/Science Literature
  • Literature and Sports

• Paula Langteau, Campus CEO and Dean
  • Arthur Miller: The Man and his Work
• Amy Reddinger, Assistant Professor English/Women's Studies
  • African American Literature
  • Asian American Literature
  • The American Cold War 
  • Cookbooks and Domesticity
  • Women's Literature
• Constance Scofield, Director, Library
• Locating and evaluating information resources

GEOGRAPHY/GEOLOGY

• Keith West, Assistant Professor, Geography/Geology
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization

HISTORY

• Daniel Kallgren, Associate Professor, History
• The Great Peshtigo Fire
• Using Novels in an Historical Way
• It Wasn't all Ozzie and Harriet: The Other Side of the U.S. in the 1950s
• What Television Can Tell Us About the U.S.
• Who Went to School and Who Didn't in U.S. History
• Why Slavery?
• History and Hollywood: American History through the Movies
• Sports Culture in Early America

MATHEMATICS

• Michael Bartlett, Associate Professor, Mathematics
• Topics related to Mathematics, including Statistics
• Calculus applications to Business
• Linear programming Applications to Business
• Careers in Mathematics
• Linear Algebra & its Applications
• Finite Mathematics Applications to Business, Economics, Social Sciences, Life & Physical Sciences

MUSIC

• David Giebler, Associate Professor, Music
  • Lecture/Demonstrations Relating Master Composers of the Past to Music of the Present
  • The Piano Music of Beethoven
  • 20th Century Piano Music
  • The Music of Gordon Binkerd
  • The Importance of Music Theory: How it Applies to Music Study and Performance

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Dorothy Kowalski, Professor, Physical Education
  • Topics related to health and wellness
    • personal fitness
    • physical education for special populations
    • sociology of sport
    • women and sport
    • first aid/CPR

PHYSICS

• Paul Erdman, Associate Professor, Astronomy/Physics
  • Topics related to physics

POLITICAL SCIENCE

• Daniel Kallgren, Associate Professor, History
  • The U.S. Constitution
  • Political Parties in American Politics

PSYCHOLOGY

• Albert Bugaj, Professor, Psychology
• Leadership
• Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
• Stress Management
• Improving Memory

SOCIOLOGY

• Dail Murray, Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology/Sociology
  • Oral History for Students of All Ages
  • Social Problems

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• Amy Reddinger, English/Women's Studies
  • Popular culture
  • History of feminism
  • Women's writing

WORLD LANGUAGES

• Jennifer Flatt, Professor, English/Spanish
  • Language Learning Techniques
  • Latinos and Sport