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Hank Nuwer’s “beat” as an investigative and feature  writer includes the U.S. Midwest, Poland, and Alaska. His academic specialty is education, particularly the history of hazing. Hank Nuwer holds a State University of New York honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and a Master’s from New Mexico Highlands University.

Nuwer in June 2020 to become a professional speaker for Greek University. He continues to write books, journal articles, magazine journalism and occasional book reviews as he has for five decades.   

Hank Nuwer spoke twice at Poland universities, May and December 2019

Hank Nuwer maintains the Hazing Deaths database. See summary article in PennLive.

His academic specialty is hazing as an international social issue. His books on the topic of hazing in society including Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing, Broken Pledges, and The Hazing Reader.

He came out of a one-year retirement from hazing research in 2019 to embark on research for a book on hazing in all USA groups tent. titled “Hazing in American Culture.” (due 2021)

Nuwer’s essays and articles have appeared in the South Carolina Review, Ball State Forum, (forthcoming) The Limberlost Review, Idaho State Rendezvous, New York Times Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, The Nation, GQ, Outside, The Conversation, Rocky Mountain, Boston, Indianapolis Monthly, The Nation, Sport, Orlando Sentinel, Globe & Mail, Times of India, Denver Magazine, Inside Sports, Saturday Evening Post, Ozark airline magazine, various AARP publications, Men’s Fitness, Buffalo Courier Express, and Fireside Companion.

Member: Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, Sons of the American Legion. Formerly Sigma Tau Rho Fraternity, no longer in operation.

Charitable work: He contributes regularly to the Hank Nuwer Anti-Hazing Hero Award and to Buffalo State College Hank Nuwer Collection and BSC Hazing Collection under BSC archivist Daniel DiLandro.

Hank Nuwer (Illustration by Joe Lee, reprinted from Arts Indiana magazine)

LINKS

Link to the Buffalo State (SUNY) Hank Nuwer Hazing Collection

Read “One Long Wild Conversation,” which contains 40 years of correspondence between author Hank Nuwer and Buffalo State Professor Fraser Drew

A founding board member of HazingPrevention.org, he contributes donations to its annual Hank Nuwer Antihazing Hero Awards for HazingPrevention.org

Hank graduated from Buffalo State College (B.S.) and New Mexico Highlands University (M.A.); he has an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York (Buffalo State, 2006) and taken additional graduate coursework at the University of Nevada and Hamline University.

Hank loved teaching magazine journalism at Ball State with students such as Beth Dalton, now a professor (See Video at 46-minute mark). Ball State University awarded him its doctoral equivalency for his research and publications in 1986. Later, he was elected in 2010 to the BSU Journalism Hall of Fame.  Ball State feature on Hank Nuwer, 1989.

He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska-Nuwer, currently taking advanced taxation and other courses at Franklin while working online for an international Polish accounting firm.

Hank's play was based on several real-life incidents. Schools, fraternities, sororities can put it on for free
Hank’s play The Broken Pledge was based on several real-life incidents. Schools, fraternities, sororities can put it on for free.

The Antihazing Hero Awards are his pride and joy.

Nominations for 2020 now open.

Award winners making a difference. Link to Antihazing Award winners 2007-2020 at HazingPrevention.Org Nominate someone deserving.  Past recipients: Lianne Kowiak and Mr. and Mrs. Gruver below!

Lianne Kowiak, HazingPrevention.org Hank Nuwer Antihazing Hero
Lianne Kowiak, HazingPrevention.org Hank Nuwer Antihazing Hero
Max Gruver and parents

 

Our Family. Poland cabin in the woods east of Warsaw.

 

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Sons of the Dawn

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Tallahassee police label December FSU fraternity death an accident, not hazing. Deaths involve FSU SAE and Sig Ep.

Here is the story link The death of a popular Florida State University student found unresponsive inside the Sigma Phi Epsilon house in December has been determined accidental, according to an autopsy released late Tuesday. The District Two Medical Examiner’s Office said the death of William Eppes Proctor, 22, was due to “right epidural hematoma due to […]

Pullman Police Chief Jenkins drops the ball in Big-Little death.

The police chief missed the deadline to post hazing charges. Shame on Pullman Police and the Prosecutor for letting the one-year statute of limitations expire in the “Big-Little” death of Sam Martinez, a travesty, at Washington State’s Alpha Tau Omega house. “We had our eyes on a potential more serious offense, that was manslaughter, and […]

Death of a rookie at Lyon College

The bruised body of James Gilfedder is undergoing an autopsy at this time while his teammates continue to play.   Gilfedder’s parents told Arkansas media that their son’s body was battered, and he consumed a fifth of alcohol at a team “hazing party.”  Police are waiting for autopsy results before commenting.  Media said the house […]

Another 2020 close call — TCU

Moderator: This is the same university that had injured pledges in September 2020: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article218683030.html Benton McDonald  -INCIDENT #2.  So similar to death of Nicky Cumberland at University of Texas–Moderator January 28, 2021 TCU placed a fraternity on probation after a hazing investigation revealed that students involved in a car crash last November had been sent […]

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