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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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Thank you, AFA

New scholarship from Brazil: Hazing at the university and gender violence: a literature integrative review

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/psicolargum.39.103.AO02 Trotes na universidade e violência de gênero: uma revisão integrativa de literatura Hazing at the university and gender violence: a literature integrative review   Novatadas en la universidad y violencia de género: una revisión integradora de la literatura Adriane Roso https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-133X Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), adriane.roso@ufsm.br Janine Gudolle de Souza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6477-4190 […]

A Poland-Union City Love story.

Here is the link. Hank   My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. “Wait, how did a fellow from Indiana meet a Polish lass,” you may ask? I persuaded Gosia in June of 2015 […]

No charges in Cornell hazing death

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