{"id":3703,"date":"2015-05-19T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcftr-dev.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/news\/former-wcftr-director-michele-hilmes-retires\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T02:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:13:55","slug":"former-wcftr-director-michele-hilmes-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/2015\/05\/19\/former-wcftr-director-michele-hilmes-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WCFTR Director Michele Hilmes Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hilmes-670px.jpg\" class=\"colorbox colorbox-insert-image\" rel=\"gallery-all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-large alignright size-full wp-image-3702\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hilmes-670px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a> After a distinguished career at UW-Madison, Communication Arts colleague and former WCFTR director Michele Hilmes is retiring from the University.&nbsp; In her 22 years on the Wisconsin faculty, Michele wrote or edited\/co-edited some nine books and upwards of 40 scholarly articles, establishing herself as the nation\u2019s leading scholar on the history of American broadcasting.<span style=\"font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among her many service contributions to the University, she was the director of the WCFTR from 2003 to 2010.&nbsp; She was an activist director, and the Center still benefits her contributions.&nbsp; For example, she oversaw the acquisition of several new WCFTR archive collections, including material from filmmaker Stuart Gordon and from television writers Bridgett and Jerome Dobson.&nbsp; By way of outreach, Michele launched the WCFTR\u2019s Jarchow Fellowships, in which select Communication Arts graduate students could do detailed research projects in WCFTR collections and then prepare digital exhibits for <a href=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/exhibits\">the website<\/a>.&nbsp;In 2010, to mark the Center\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, Michele organized a splendid four-day conference, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/18179\">On Archives!: A Conference on Media, Theater and History<\/a>.\u201d Scholars from three continents convened in Madison to deliver papers on media history, many of which drew from WCFTR collections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michele joins other distinguished WCFTR directors Tino Balio and David Bordwell in retirement, and like them leaves behind a valuable legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a distinguished career at UW-Madison, Communication Arts colleague and former WCFTR director Michele Hilmes is retiring from the University.&nbsp; In her 22 years on the Wisconsin faculty, Michele wrote or edited\/co-edited some nine books &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[263],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}