Veterans in Academics:

Derek G. Handley is an assistant professor in the English Department’s Public Rhetorics & Community Engagement program and affiliated faculty in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a retired Navy Commander who earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University using the GI Bill. His book project, “‘The Places We Knew So Well Are No More:’ A Rhetorical History of Urban Renewal and the Black Freedom Movement” looks at the rhetorical strategies and tactics used by African-American communities in Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and St. Paul MN as they resisted urban renewal. Before coming to UWM, Derek was a Chamberlain Project Fellow in English and Black Studies at Amherst College and a Predoctoral Mellon Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. He has taught at Lehigh University, the United States Naval Academy, and the Community College of Allegheny County. His research interests include African American Rhetoric, Urban Studies, and the Black Freedom Movement.

Here are some links to Derek's Projects that he discusses on the show.

https://www.writingandrhetoricmke.com/blog/mapping-racism-and-resistance-in-milwaukee

https://uwm.edu/news/how-rhetoric-shaped-resistance-to-urban-renewal/