Melanie Malone publishes “Teaching Critical Physical Geography”

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone recently published an article in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education entitled "Teaching Critical Physical Geography." Beyond providing a framework for how to teach CPG, the article also provides methods for students to overcome power dynamics and ...

November 24, 2020

Julie Shayne blogs about Trump inspired trauma

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the trauma the Trump campaign caused many feminists. In it she argues that reliving the sexist double standards of the 2016 campaign, watching the misogyny on the campaign trail, and seeing an accused sexual predator get so close to the presidency for a second time, was a psychologically traumatic experience for millions of women in the US; especially survivors of sexual assault.

November 20, 2020

Hip hop artist and alum Essam Muhammad shares his story and creative practice

Essam Muhammad is a UW Bothell alum, South Seattle-based rapper/poet, and community organizer. On October 20, he connected with students over Zoom for the event "Coming Home: Songs, Stories, & Conversation with Essam Muhammad" organized by UW Bothell’s Campus Events Board (CEB) and IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts. Muhammad spoke on ...

November 19, 2020

Mari McMenamin: Border Stories

IAS student Mari McMenamin's podcast on life at the Mexico/Southern California border for 91.3 KBCS (Bellevue College’s award-winning community radio station serving the Seattle-Tacoma region) is featured in an article from Bellevue College News. At KBCS ...

November 9, 2020

Q&A: First-generation students

In honor of National First-Generation College Celebration Day on Nov. 8, a few of UW Bothell’s first-gen students answer questions from Director of Communications Maria Lamarca Anderson. Included are three IAS students: Hieu Doan, a Black and Vietnamese senior in Interactive Media Design; Jacky Guzman, a Mexican-American transfer student from Everett Community College majoring in both American & Ethnic Studies and in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Diversity Studies; and Maritza Lauriano Ortega, a Mexican/Latina senior in Environmental Studies with a minor in Human Rights.

November 6, 2020

Dan Berger publishes in Colin Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People”

IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes an article in "Abolition for the People," a month-long series edited by Colin Kaepernick and appearing in Medium. Coauthored with UC President's Postdoctoral fellow David Stein, the article examines the policy agenda of police and prison abolitionists. "Police and prisons uphold the world that is ...

October 30, 2020

Frances Lee investigates threats to subsistence fishing with Melissa Watkinson and Haliehana Stepetin

As a 2019-20 Environmental Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow for Seattle Globalist, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) examined the threats of climate change and pollution to marine subsistence harvesting. In their article “Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribes," published in the South Seattle Emerald, Lee discusses ...

October 27, 2020

Julie Shayne speaks on a plenary session at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne spoke on a plenary session titled “Persistence Is Resistance” at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference. The session was organized to celebrate Shayne’s new open access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne discussed the origins ...

October 23, 2020