News from the School of IAS

IAS Faculty to lead Migration Stories Community Workshop

On February 8, Naomi Macalalad Bragin and Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra will co-facilitate the Migration Stories Community Workshop, a new partnership with Derek Dizon, founder and steward of A Resting Place grief and loss cultural resource center in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. The workshop focuses on migration as a form of separation and loss embedded deeply in...

February 6, 2025

Jin-Kyu Jung Published a Chapter in “How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography”

Jin-Kyu Jung published a book chapter titled, “Evoking Critical and Creative Forms of Mapping/GIS for Digital and Health (In)Equity,” in the book on How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography. The collected volume—edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves—addresses the pressing challenges facing the Geography and related disciplines in understanding, engaging, and...

February 6, 2025

Brinda Sarathy Speaks with Oregon Public Broadcasting About Forestry Labor

IAS Dean Brinda Sarathy was featured in an article by Oregon Public Broadcasting where she spoke about forestry labor shifts from the 70s to 80s. The article, How Oregon’s forestry workforce has evolved over 50 years, examines the changes in the industry over the last 50 years. In particular, the identities and ideologies of the...

January 31, 2025

Professor Becca Price participating in the Provost’s Academy 

Professor Becca Price has been selected to join a cohort of emerging leaders at UW in the Provost’s Academy. She will work with a mentor: Vice Provost of Academic & Student Affairs Phil Reid. Through this program, Professor Price will co-chair a working group with Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Sean Gehrke to develop...

January 31, 2025

Blooming Beyond the MFA: Emily J. Mundy’s What Blooms in the Dark

Seattle-based poet, teacher, and literary series curator Emily J. Mundy has recently published her debut book of poems, What Blooms in the Dark, with Moon Tide Press (October 2024). Mundy is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program at UW Bothell. Tracing the poet’s journey of release, return, and rebirth, this...

January 31, 2025

Kari Lerum presents on feminism in a new political landscape

On Thursday, Jan. 16, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum spoke on a panel at Seattle University titled “Feminisms and Politics: The Place of Feminism in a New Political Landscape.” Showcasing diverse pathways into feminism, each panelist shared how their positionalities have impacted/impact their approach to feminist consciousness and action. 

January 21, 2025

Jennifer Atkinson Publishes Chapter in “Teaching the Literature of Climate Change”

Jennifer Atkinson published a chapter titled “Stories from our Future: Beyond the Binary of Climate Hope and Grief” in the new MLA book on Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. The collection — edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and published by the Modern Language Association — explores literature as a means to cultivate students’ understanding...

January 7, 2025

Shannon Cram receives Julian Steward Award

IAS faculty member, Shannon Cram, received the 2024 Julian Steward Award for her book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. Awarded by the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association, this award recognizes “the best monograph in environmental and ecological anthropology” each year. The Julian Steward Award committee wrote...

January 7, 2025

Shannon Cram receives Honorable Mention for Gregory Bateson Book Prize

IAS faculty member, Shannon Cram, received an Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize. Awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the Bateson Prize “looks to single out work that is theoretically rich, ethnographically grounded, and in the spirit of the tradition for which the SCA has been known: interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative.”...

November 26, 2024