Month: September 2025

By Thomas Jilk Jacqueline (Lina) Brixey’s great-grandfather was the last fluent Choctaw speaker in her family. After his passing, her great-grandmother urged the family to speak English in order to open better opportunities for themselves in what we now call the United States. Today, out of the roughly 200,000 members of the Choctaw Nation of …

Professor Greg Downey’s career defies disciplinary boundaries, spanning from computer science to history and geography, from journalism and mass communication to the history of information.  For 25 years, Downey has served UW–Madison in a range of capacities, including a stint as chair of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a recent decade-long leadership …