News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
Kristin Gustafson presents “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson presented “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s August conference. She shared two teaching modules as part of the ...
October 4, 2021
Karam Dana on public opinion in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave two lectures showcasing some of his research findings this month. The first was titled “Palestinian Public Opinion: The Role of the US, and the Making of Future Policy” and was part of the Diplomacy Roundtable organized by the Seattle Rotary Club. The second ...
September 29, 2021
Bruce Burgett edits a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited (with Glenn Hendler, Fordham University) a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory.” Keywords Now is an extension of Burgett and Hendler’s co-edited Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. It is designed to explore ongoing shifts in the meanings of key terms that shape research, teaching, and thinking about complex social and cultural issues. The current cluster responds to right-wing attacks ...
September 24, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: 12 Women Scholars on undercitation of scholarship by women and people of color
12 Women Scholars, an environmental history writing group that includes IAS dean Brinda Sarathy, has issued a challenge to scholarly journals and presses. The group posted “A Disturbing Pattern” on the Inside Higher Ed website, exposing a pattern of inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color in ...
August 27, 2021
Akshara Balakrishnan signs on as a Cohort Operations and Programs Coordinator at the Q-Center
Akshara Balakrishnan, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies ('21), is now at the UW Seattle Q-Center, working on creating a cohort for trans femmes of color. This space is open to both UW students and non-students alike. Akshara, who was GWSS Student Representative for the 2020-21 academic year, is excited to ...
August 19, 2021
Margaret H. Redsteer named Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter lead for 5th National Climate Assessment
IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as the chapter lead for the Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Redsteer will work with Rachel Novak from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Climate Change Adaptation Program as the coordinating lead. Redsteer’s role as chapter lead includes ...
August 18, 2021
Phoenix Horn earns Husky 100 recognition connecting policy research and social change
As a current student in UW Bothell’s Master of Arts in Policy Studies program, Phoenix Horn (Law, Economics & Public Policy, 2020) examines systemic racism, gender inequality and transphobia, in the interest of making the world more equitable. His current research project looks into how antiracism is practiced in Western Washington’s K-12 classrooms. Keith Nitta, faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, notes that Horn’s hopes and ambitions are about social and political change, and that this makes him a great match with Policy Studies program values and curriculum. “Phoenix is committed to the public good above all else,” says Nitta.
July 26, 2021
Reducing harm and promoting justice for trans and intersex people
At the 2021 Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27) Biennial Conference, IAS students Jessica Belmont, Jordan Havlicek, and Luke Scott joined Reid Ellefson-Frank, another trans undergraduate student-researcher from Michigan State University, Yale post doc and LGBTQIA+ scholar Dani Chiaramonte, and IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty to talk about the experience engaging in participatory action research (PAR) in a session titled ...
July 19, 2021
Films for a feminist future
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum's class, "Girls on Film," introduces students to feminist theory and film. The class screens films that explore the cultural and institutional implications of coming-of-age narratives. To be viewed in class, the films must be directed by a woman, have a female lead and pass the Bechdel test — a measure of the representation of women in fiction.
July 15, 2021
IAS faculty organize and perform at “Still/Hear: A Healing Concert”
On Friday, May 14, 2021 IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali, Masahiro Sugano, and Naomi Macalalad Bragin co-organized alongside students of Global Media Lab a healing concert to demand an end to Anti-Asian violence. The healing concert titled “Still/Hear” was a response to the Asian American community's experiences of ...
July 9, 2021