“While working together in small groups for their senior capstone projects [the students] draw together the knowledge and skills from their individual majors to create projects that address the issues of race and ethnicity in our community, state, and nation which are interesting or important to them.
Timothy Gongaware
“This has been incredible to watch happen, and the Patterns video is only one example of such thought provoking projects.”
Timothy Gongaware was appointed to serve as Interim Department Chair for the Department of Ethnic and Racial Studies at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.
One of the duties is to teach the capstone course for the Ethnic and Racial Studies Minor, and during Fall 2015, one of the groups in that class produced a video entitled Patterns: Examining American Indian Imagery in La Crosse:
“Patterns” is a short educational video discussing American Indian imagery in La Crosse, WI. Through interviews with experts, residents and visitors to our city, the film will explore the various ways American Indians are portrayed in our local community. Learn about issues surrounding stereotypical imagery and solutions for these problems.
Music by:
“Douglass Greengrass Song” by Little Thunder
“Women’s Scrub Song” by Little Thunder
Tim graduated with his Masters in Sociology in 1997 from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, then went on to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln to earn his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2001.
He currently teaches Social World, Social Psychology, Collective Behavior, Early Social Theory, and Qualitative Explorations and his specialty areas are: Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Identity (individual and collective), and Qualitative Research.
“As Interim Chair of ERS I have particularly enjoyed the chance to support faculty in all of their work – to help coordinate the administrative elements that support or open up opportunities for them to excel in their research, their teaching and their service activities.
“There’s nothing I like better than to say, “Yes! Do it!!” when faculty come up with new ideas or develop projects.
“While I continue to teach in the Department of Sociology, I’ve also been very excited to work with students from around the UWL campus who are in the Ethnic and Racial Studies program. Students who declare an ERS minor come from all of our colleges and schools at UWL including Liberal Studies, Science and Allied Health, Business, and Education.”
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