Shiela Reaves
Retirement Date: 2018
Professor Emerita
Biography
Shiela Reaves was a professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Life Sciences Communication when she retired in 2018. Reaves joined the department in 2001 and was also an affiliate faculty member of
American Indian Studies. A beloved instructor and mentor, she specialized in visual communication and was interested in how neuroscience supports interdisciplinary theories of visual imagery used in science communication and visual messages. Before coming to UW–Madison, Reaves worked as a photographer for
The Capital Times in Madison, WI. She was the first full-time female photojournalist on a Wisconsin daily newspaper and won Wisconsin Newspaper Photographers Association awards in news and sports.
