News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
Dan Berger discusses prison abolition on Rumble with Michael Moore
IAS faculty member Dan Berger discussed prison abolition on Rumble with Michael Moore. The Oscar-winning filmmaker interviewed Berger about the problem of prison and whether a “Department of Restorative Justice & Redemption” should replace our existing Prison Industrial Complex. Earlier this month, Berger ...
June 22, 2021
Malak Shalabi among the first to wear a hijab during law school graduation ceremony
IAS alum Malak Shalabi graduated from University of Washington School of Law this June and may be the first to wear a hijab during the graduation ceremony. In this Seattle Times article, Shalabi discusses her path to law school and the discrimination she’s faced – and transcended. Shalabi graduated from UW Bothell in 2018 with a degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy. As a student, she researched sectarian violence in Syria and the voices of Syrian people in the United States ...
June 14, 2021
William Hartmann awarded grant to study Indigeneity and suicide
IAS faculty member William Hartmann was awarded a Royalty Research Fund Scholar grant to study how Indigeneity and suicide are (mis)represented in mental health research on American Indian and Alaska Native suicide to clarify relevancies of this literature for specific Indigenous communities ...
June 10, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung and Christian Anderson : (Un)Mapping Social and Spatial Inequality
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Christian Anderson co-chaired a panel session on “(Un)Mapping Social and Spatial Inequality: Extending Socio-Theoretically Informed Critical Approaches to Engage Policy” at the 2021 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Symposium held virtually. The session ...
June 9, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson and Kari Lerum receive SRCP Seed Grant
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson and Kari Lerum were awarded the SRCP Seed Grant for 2021. The UW Bothell Scholarship, Research, and Creative Practice (SRCP) Seed Grant program is intended to competitively support UW Bothell faculty in all disciplines who are starting new projects or relaunching current projects in ...
June 1, 2021
Sakara Buyagawan and Jung Lee receive Distinguished Accomplishments Award
IAS staff members Sakara Buyagawan and Jung Lee were honored for their extraordinary work and programmatic innovation to support international students impacted by the pandemic and U.S. immigration politics/policies. By coordinating coursework and campus resources, they ...
June 1, 2021
Karam Dana: “Making Sense of Palestine Today”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana, who is a scholar of Palestine, was a panelist on Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies' first installment of a three-part lecture series titled "Making Sense of Palestine Today." Dana was joined by ...
May 28, 2021
Sarah Ramírez presents research on discourses of globalization in Latino film
IAS undergraduate student Sarah Ramírez presented her research at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Her presentation, titled “Caught on Camera: Discourses of Globalization and Global Citizenship in Latino Film,” examined the ways that ...
May 26, 2021
Ten students share the fifth annual Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Award!
This year ten GWSS students from Lauren Lichty’s class “Participatory Action Research to Address Sexual and Relationship Violence at the University of Washington Bothell” will share the LAFPIE award. The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) community created the award in 2016, the year they launched the degree, to honor and commemorate their colleague Leslie Ashbaugh.
May 21, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Women and Non-Binary Faculty of Color are Vulnerable One Year into Pandemic”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen collaborated with other pre-tenure women and non-binary faculty of color at the University of Washington to write an opinion piece about the impact of navigating the transitions resulting from coronavirus on women or non-binary faculty of color early in their academic careers.
May 18, 2021