We have some pretty exciting news to share! On April 25th, our director and supervisor Dr. Mou Banerjee was recognized for her outstanding mentorship of students at the Nonviolence Project and in the classroom! She and the other award recipients were celebrated at a ceremony in Union South, where her achievements were read out:
Mou Banerjee is an assistant professor of History and the founder-director of the Nonviolence Project (NVP) at UW-Madison. Dr. Banerjee has mentored over 23 undergraduate students at the NVP and many more as advisees and students for her undergraduate classes in the past 5 years. Dr. Banerjee believes that education is a practice of resistance against injustice and it is also a practice of freedom – for the self and the world. That is the core of her mentoring ideology. She focuses on helping her students develop their own unique interests in historical research. Many of her undergraduate mentees work with her from the time that they are freshmen to graduation, and create longstanding mentoring relationships that continue beyond their time at UW-Madison.
To read more about the award, click here.
Congratulations Dr. Banerjee! We can think of no one more deserving.