News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Angelica Lucchetto publishes research in UW FieldNotes journal

IAS Environmental Science major Angelica Lucchetto published, "Impacts of Floating Woody Debris on Algae Communities: A Comparison between Spirit Lake and Coldwater Lake, Mount St. He足彩app哪个是正规的," a feature article on her research in the UW FieldNotes journal. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article ...

February 11, 2021

Jed Murr: Teaching ethnic studies here and in Slovenia

During a sabbatical originally planned as a teaching Fulbright in Slovenia, IAS faculty member Jed Murr is working on a project funded with a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant. As part of a larger Black Arts Northwest collaboration with scholars, librarians and archivists, Murr is creating a digital history platform. Part of the platform will be a website about a Black Power mural in Seattle that was created in the early 1970s and destroyed in the 1990s. Another project would digitize Black periodicals published in Seattle and make them publicly accessible.

February 9, 2021

Rob Turner advances sustainability in teaching and scholarship

IAS faculty member Rob Turner helped run an hour-long discussion session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in January. 足彩app哪个是正规的 session was titled Fostering Sustainability Out of a Pandemic: Pathways for Higher Education to Create a More Resilient Institution and Society. In November, he received ...

February 9, 2021

Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...

February 5, 2021

Jennifer Atkinson’s course on climate grief and?eco-anxiety featured in New York Times

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s seminar on climate grief and eco-anxiety was featured in a New York Times story on efforts to support people experiencing distress over the global climate crisis. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, Got Climate Anxiety? 足彩app哪个是正规的se People Are Doing Something About It, noted that the number of Americans who are “very worried” about climate change has more than doubled over the past five years to its current rate of ...

February 5, 2021

Karam Dana on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban (KUOW)

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was interviewed by KUOW’s Kim Malcolm for “All Things Considered” on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban. Dana reflected on what this reversal means to the local Muslim American community, and its impact globally, situating the issue of discrimination towards Muslims as a central problem with how American society has operated ...

January 27, 2021

Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “足彩app哪个是正规的 general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. 足彩app哪个是正规的se policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”

January 27, 2021

Bruce Burgett co-edits essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited, with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), a dossier of essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and their aftermath. “Keywords Now” contains brief elaborations of essays published in the third edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, also co-edited by Burgett and Hendler. 足彩app哪个是正规的 elaborations focus on the keywords conservatism ...

January 22, 2021

Karam Dana speaks on religion and political participation among minorities in the US

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture on January 15th as part of the On the Corner Symposium: Nexus at the Political Intersection of Race and Religion Research sponsored and hosted by the Taft Research Center of the University of Cincinnati. His lecture was titled "Role of Religion in Political Participation Among Minorities in the US.” 足彩app哪个是正规的 video ...

January 22, 2021