News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
Kari Lerum: “Counter-cultured Girlhoods”
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was invited by the Henry Art Gallery to write a response to an exhibition of photographs and paintings (showing Feb. 4, 2022-May 29, 2022) entitled “Double Dare Ya: Burns, Kurland, & Ross-Ho.” As part of ...
February 11, 2022
Julie Shayne at “Gender and Resistance” book salon
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne participated in a book salon at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting (virtual). Titled “Gender and Resistance,” participants in the salon discussed their books related to this theme. Shayne discussed ...
February 7, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali publishes in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is published in the new book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, published by Harper Collins. RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which APIA culture was ...
February 4, 2022
Martha Groom awarded Royalty Research Fund grant to study undergraduate DEI programs
IAS faculty member Martha Groom was awarded a Royalty Research Fund grant to explore how undergraduate programs impact the DEI mission of their partner organizations. The grant "Impacts of Undergraduate Equity and Inclusion Programs on Partner Organizations: A Case Study of ...
January 12, 2022
Alka Kurian researches in Morocco on a Fulbright US Scholar award
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian spent five months (July – November 2021) as a Fulbright US Scholar in Morocco to conduct research on digital feminism in the country. She was associated with the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fes and carried out several activities that included ...
December 27, 2021
Maryam Griffin publishes Vehicles of Decolonization
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has published a new book, Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, as part of Temple University Press's Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series.
December 15, 2021
Kristin Gustafson published in Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
The newly published Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America includes IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson’s chapter, “Death of Democracy, North Carolina.” The chapter provides a case study with parallels of two newspapers and the men leading them. ...
December 8, 2021
Becca Price: Chronicling SABER’s efforts to become antiracist
A new publication by a team of people led by Miriam Segura-Totten (University of North Georgia) and Samiksha Raut (The University of Alabama at Birmingham) and including IAS faculty member Becca Price, describes how the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) has challenged itself to become antiracist. ...
December 7, 2021
Maisha Manson is the new program manager for UW Bothell Diversity Center!
M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Maisha Manson (they, them, theirs) was recently hired as program manager at UW Bothell’s Student Diversity Center and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through a national search. Maisha will support the Diversity Center and UW Bothell student community through advocacy, care, and ...
December 2, 2021
Two of Ching-In Chen’s poems are published in Kweli
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Inside me, another family” and “Inside me, I write/ a swarm of wants” was published in Kweli. Kweli’s mission is to create a community of Black, Indigenous and POC artists and ...
December 1, 2021