Film professor Kim Nelson is producing a live documentary exploring the food and culture of Arab-Canadians and -Americans along the Windsor-Detroit border.
A project by film professor Kim Nelson will explore the Arab food culture in Windsor-Detroit.
Street names are among the vestiges of Wyandot history in the Windsor-Detroit area.
Street names are among the vestiges of Wyandot history in the Windsor-Detroit area.
History professor Rob Nelson narrates over a map of eastern Europe during rehearsals of the Live Doc Project.
UWindsor professors and students will take their experimental interactive documentary to a couple of U.S. cities over the next week.
Professors Kim Nelson, Brent Lee and Rob Nelson rehearse presentation of their interactive documentary, 130-Year Road Trip.
The project 130-Year Road Trip is an interactive documentary combining film, performance and live music.
Kim and Rob Nelson will both receive awards at today's Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, which happens to fall on their 14th anniversary. Photo by Hagen Nelson.
Today is an especially rewarding one for Kim and Rob Nelson.
Besides taking home a pair of awards at today’s annual Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, the two professors are celebrating their 14th wedding anniversary.
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of articles about students who were involved in cool research, scholarly and creative activities during their summer break from classes.
Some people who travel through the Canadian prairies may describe their spaces as mundane, but to a young camera man with a vivid imagination and a desire for visual stimulation, the wide open west provides a bounty of opportunity.
A PhD student who came to Canada in 1883 was so inspired by how settlers were dealing with Aboriginal peoples in the west that he travelled home to Germany to convince authorities there to use the same methods with Poles who had settled in the eastern part of their country, according to History professor Rob Nelson.
An awards ceremony Thursday celebrated the achievements of students and faculty in the Department of History. The event was held in a first-year class taught by professor Rob Nelson, said department head Miriam Wright.
“It was an occasion for us to let our new students know about the quality of a degree in history from the University of Windsor,” she said. “Our faculty are talented, highly-respected scholars who have works published by the world’s top academic presses and journals.”
