News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Santiago Lopez publishes a book chapter in Applied research on climate change: Contributions to Latin American cities
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) published a book chapter entitled “Between techno-science and experience: hybrid knowledge as a foundation for applied research on climate change”. In this chapter, the authors argue that ...
November 23, 2020
Becca Price publishes annotations to biology education research
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published another set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Estrada et al.) describes factors that contribute to persistence in graduate training for a biomedical career. The annotations explore ...
November 20, 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
Laura Harkewicz publishes “We Can’t Relocate the World”
IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz published “’We Can’t Relocate the World’: Activists, Doctors, and a Radiation-Exposed Identity” in the Washington State University Press book, Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World. The chapter ruminates on the physical and psychic toll of post-war nuclear testing and the indeterminate correlation between radiation exposure and illness. In this piece, Harkewicz narrates the relationships between U.S. government doctors, antinuclear activists, and the peoples of Rongelap and Utirik in the Marshall Islands who ...
November 17, 2020
Taking contamination out of community gardens
Melanie Malone, an IAS faculty member who researches contaminants in urban gardens, teamed up with community partners to test and remediate soil in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, where residents could use some healthy produce. Malone and community partners received a Population Health Equity Research Grant to sample soil at gardens in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. It’s close to the Duwamish River Superfund site, designated for a special federal cleanup program because of a century of industrial pollution.
November 17, 2020
Bruce Burgett publishes Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett published Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition with New York University Press. Co-edited with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the print-digital volume includes 114 essays, 64 in print and 48 online. The Keywords website also includes pedagogical materials to support instructors who teach print or online essays in their courses.
November 17, 2020
Maryam Griffin publishes “Transcending Enclosures by Bus”
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published “Transcending Enclosures by Bus: Public Transit Protests, Frame Mobility, and the Many Facets of Colonial Occupation” in Critique of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue called “Occupations in Context: The Cultural Logics of Occupation, Settler Violence, and Resistance,” co-edited by ...
November 10, 2020
Julie Shayne presents paper at Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels symposium
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS” at the Critical Border Crossing symposium. Shayne’s paper was about her new book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.
November 9, 2020
Becca Price publishes on collaboration with the Pacific Science Center
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the School of STEM and Dr. Eva Ma from UW Tacoma, published an article about a collaboration between the UW and Pacific Science Center. Price is the Executive Director of STEP-WISE, a program in which postdoctoral fellows in scientific fields learn how to teach ...
November 4, 2020
Shannon Cram: “A Good Day to Die”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece in the literary journal River Teeth. Cram's mini essay, "A Good Day to Die," appeared in the journal's "Beautiful Things" series, a weekly online publication featuring, "very brief nonfiction that finds beauty in the everyday."
November 2, 2020