Hank Nuwer columns
Welcome. Enjoy the writings of author Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by his wife Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
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Bio: Hank Nuwer is the 2024 Alaska Press Club First-Place Columnist of the Year, the 2023 APC Alaska First-Place Columnist of Year, and 2022 Ohio SPJ First-Place Columnist of the Year. A longtime researcher on hazing in youth and adult groups, Hank Nuwer was named an “Alaska Champion” by the Alaska Children’s Trust, 2024-2025. His current books in print are Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader (Indiana University Press).
More recent work: Hank Nuwer’s new forward published in Cultures of Sport Hazing and Ant-Hazing Initiatives for the 21st Century published by editors Jay Johnson and Jessica W. Chin. He’s also co-authored “Hazing in Fraternities and Sororities” by Elizabeth Allan and Nuwer in the recent Gender-Based Crime edited by Kathleen A. Bogle. Nuwer’s interviews with Kurt Vonnegut, Louis L’Amour, Harry Crews, James Dickey, Maurice Sendak, Norman Mailer and David Mamet are in various biographies and interview collections.
Bio: Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She and Hank reside in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 20 acres in remote Alaska. She has a master’s degree in Economics. She and her husband combined on an article on Alaska backroad trips for the next issue of Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Contact Hank Nuwer at Hnuwer@hanknuwer.com
“A Life-Changing Trip” By Hank Nuwer;
Perhaps my most life-changing essay I ever wrote concerned the National Hansen’s Disease Treatment Center, the clinic in Carville, La., devoted since 1894 to the care of leprosy patients. The facility’s director, staff and patients inspired photographer Max...
William A. Bonney: He Put His Life on the Line
By Hank Nuwer Uncle Sam’s Signal Corps made great strides between 1900 and 1908 in establishing communications throughout Alaska. The main purpose of the lines was to keep various military command posts in touch with each other. But private citizens made ample use of...
Caleb Wilson should be alive
I stand in support of Caleb Wilson's family. If you haze, you craze. Stophazing now. April 19, 2025. The family of Caleb Wilson begins a billboard campaign in New Orleans as two members of Omega Psi Phi are booted from Southern. Southern University student dies in a...
Alaska’s Dan Sutherland: Spoiling for a fight By Hank Nuwer
As I examined old newspaper accounts mentioning pioneer Alaskan Congressional delegate Daniel Alexander (Dan) Sutherland, I noticed one consistent trend. If any bigwigs from the Lower 48 were in sight, Sutherland wanted to fight them. Alaskan voters kept this...
Cordova Times First-Place Column
Thank you to the Cordova Times for announcing the 2024 Suzan Nightingale Column award from Alaska Press Club. Cordova Times contributor wins first for best column at Alaska Press Club awards The Cordova Times Cordova Times columnist Hank Nuwer won first place for the...
2024 Alaska Press Club winners
The Alaska Press club winners have been announced. I'm blessed to have my Cordova Times column selected Best Column for second straight year. Links: https://alaskapressclub.com/contest/
Sportcut.com revisited
26 years ago, I denounced and rejected a policy for freelancers by Sportcut.com. About that time, Sportcut.com and Pete Rose announced a new scheme to get him reinstated into baseball despite his gambling on baseball. Then, not with a bang but a whimper, the lights...
Nebraska/Alaska Fiction Writer Daryl Farmer: A Review, Hank Nuwer
What happens after you find yourself mired in a precarious situation you could and should have avoided? That’s the premise driving “On the Old Denali Road,” a short story by Alaskan author Daryl Farmer in his collection “Where We Land,” published by...
Frank Butler & Annie Oakley: Stuck to Their Guns
By Hank Nuwer The love story of Frank E. Butler and his dead-shot bride began at a shooting match. He was a professional marksman with a male shooting partner. They traveled all over the Midwest in search of shooting matches....