Patty Loew
Associate Professor
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Office: 310 Hiram Smith Hall Phone: 608.262.0654 Email: paloew@wisc.edu |
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Background
I’m Patty Loew, an associate professor in the Department of Life Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also work as a producer for WHA-TV (PBS) and co-host of In Wisconsin, a weekly news and public affairs program that airs statewide on Wisconsin Public Television.
My interests lie in television documentary production and Native American media, particularly how indigenous people use the media to form identity, reconstruct the past, and assert their sovereignty and treaty rights. I have authored two books: Indian Nations of Wisconsin : Histories of Endurance and Renewa l and Native People of Wisconsin, a social studies text for elementary school children. I have authored dozens of scholarly and general interest articles on Native topics and produced several Native-themed documentaries, including No Word for Goodbye, Spring of Discontent, and Nation Within a Nation, which have appeared on commercial and public television stations throughout the country. I have just completed production on a new PBS documentary, Way of the Warrior, that examines the role and cultural meaning of Native American military service in the 20th Century.
I am an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.
Prior to joining the UW-Madison faculty, from 1985-1997, I co-anchored weekday newscasts for WKOW TV (ABC) in Madison . Other television experience includes anchoring, writing, and producing for KATU TV in Portland, Oregon; KHQ TV in Spokane, Washington; and WXOW TV in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. My outreach efforts have focused on promoting diversity in television newsrooms. I am a member of the Native American Journalists Association and served on the Program Committee for Unity ‘99: Journalists of Color Conference (National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association, Native American Journalists Association), an international conference for 7,000 journalists of color in Seattle , WA . From time to time, I dabble in print journalism as a freelance writer. My articles and guest columns have appeared in Wisconsin State Journal, Capital Times, Madison Magazine , and News From the Sloughs ( Bad River Band of Chippewa Tribal Newspaper)