The School of Education’s Meg Mitchell is one of 24 UW–Madison faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition, which recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.
Mitchell is an associate professor of digital media in the Art Department. Her work — which spans theater and dance, photography, sculpture, video, performance, digital media, and interactive installation — draws from sources including Greek drama, contemporary advertising, camp, cinema, art history, and media representations of technological progress. She has exhibited at venues such as the Museum for Applied Art in Vienna, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Conner Contemporary, the DC Art Center, and the International Waldkunst Zentrum in Germany.
The Vilas Associates Competition is open to tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date. Departments and programs nominate eligible faculty members for consideration, who are selected competitively by a divisional research committee based on a detailed proposal. The award is funded by the William F. Vilas Estate Trust.
Read more about the 2026–27 Vilas Associates Competition awardees.