About me
Patty Loew, Ph.D., is professor emerita in the Medill School of Journalism and inaugural director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University (retired). She also is professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension. A citizen of Mashkiiziibii-- the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew is the author of four award-winning books and dozens of documentaries for commercial and public television. Loew writes written extensively about treaty rights, sovereignty, and the role of Native media in communicating Indigenous world views. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of Wisconsin’s Martin Luther King Jr. Heritage Award. She was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasting Hall of Fame and Wisconsin’s Silver Circle by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
