Class to examine how soldier’s remains ID’d

An online program set for Saturday, Jan. 7, will explain how researchers identify the remains of soldiers missing in action.

The program, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., is being held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

It will introduce participants to the methods of military missing in action research, such as using online sources, searching databases, obtaining and interpreting government documents, identifying crash locations and tracking unknowns to national cemeteries.

It will be led by Vaneesa Cook, who received her doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and has taught a variety of courses at UW-Whitewater, Queen’s University  in Ontario and UW-Madison, including “U.S. Foreign Policy,” “The Cold War” and “The Military Experience.”

She currently teaches a course on missing in action historical research at UW-Madison and oversees the historical and archival research team for the University of Wisconsin MIA-Recovery and Identification Project.

For more information, contact mia@biotech.wisc.edu.

To register for the workshop, visit https://go.wisc.edu/60g2q5.