Former Senator Feingold To Teach UW-Madison Course

Former state and U-S senator Russ Feingold will teach a course at U-W Madison next fall. The university said Monday that Feingold would be a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, teaching a capstone seminar called “Negotiating Peace in the African Great Lakes Region.” As a Wisconsin Democrat, Feingold was the U-S Senate’s leading authority on African affairs, serving for 16 years a chairman and ranking member of the foreign affairs’ subcommittee on Africa. After he left the Senate, Feingold served from 2013 to ’15 as a special U-S envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region. Feingold graduated from U-W Madison four decades ago, and he says he’s “thrilled” to return to his alma mater to teach.