News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Karam Dana, Becca Price, Mira Shimabukuro, Janelle Silva, and Camille Walsh have been promoted in rank. Atkinson and Shimabukuro were promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer. Dana, Silva, and Walsh were promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure), and Price was promoted from Associate to Full Professor.
March 23, 2018
Charlie Collins and Shelby Guidry publish in the Journal of Urban Affairs
IAS faculty member Charlie Collins and second year Master of Arts in Policy Studies student Shelby Guidry published a paper in the Journal of Urban Affairs titled, "What effect does inequality have on residents’ sense of safety? Exploring the mediating processes of social capital and civic engagement." The paper examines the role of economic inequality, social capital, and civic engagement on residents' perceptions of neighborhood safety. Collins and Guidry found that ...
March 19, 2018
Dan Berger delivers lecture on Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism
IAS faculty member Dan Berger deliverd a lecture at Niagara University. The talk, "Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism: 1960s and Now," discussed how movements against war, racism, and environmental catastrophe have evolved across recent American history. While in Buffalo, Berger also ...
March 19, 2018
Julie Shayne blogs in honor of International Women’s Day
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne was invited by the editors of State of Nature to ponder the question “What is the Biggest Challenge Facing Women Today?” as part of a blog in honor of International Women’s Day. Her response to that question argues that the current president of the US is women’s and femmes’ biggest challenge. She maintains “He [and his team] are responsible for emboldening a toxic cocktail of misogyny, racism, and xenophobia,” which ultimately translates into “the biggest obstacle women and femmes face in living with ...
March 8, 2018
Jin-Kyu Jung co-authors “A Hybrid Approach to Geotweets”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a new book chapter with Jungyeop Shin, “A Hybrid Approach to Geotweets: Reading and Mapping Tweet Contexts on Marijuana Legalization and Same-Sex Marriage in Seattle, Washington.” The chapter, which appears in Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research, presents a new way of reflecting on various epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of geographic analysis of big data. It allows us to ...
March 8, 2018
S. Charusheela on “Engendering Feudalism”
IAS faculty member S. Charusheela gave a talk on “Engendering Feudalism” at the History and Development Workshop of the Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The talk explored ways of understanding economic activity outside of the capitalist wage system. While there, she also ...
February 28, 2018
Dan Berger gives talks on Captive Nation and “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave two lectures in Florida. At the University of Tampa's Honors Program Symposia, Berger spoke about his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era to highlight the origins of mass incarceration in response to prisoner activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Berger also delivered a talk entitled “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition” at ...
February 26, 2018
Karam Dana publishes two articles and lectures at UW School of Law
IAS faculty member Karam Dana published two co-authored articles. The first, in the Journal of Politics and Religion titled “Veiled Politics: Experiences with Discrimination among American Muslim Women,” uses public opinion data, the article sheds light at gendered forms of discrimination and argues that Muslim women in the US who wear the hijab tend to experience the higher levels of discrimination when compared to Muslim women who do not wear the hijab. Overall, Muslim women, whether hijab-wearing or not, experience much higher discrimination than Muslim men. The second ...
February 26, 2018
Ted Hiebert presents on “Art for Ghosts”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert presents on “Art for Ghosts” at the 2018 College Arts Association Conference in Los Angeles. The paper speculates on recent work by Hiebert and his collaborators Doug Jarvis and Jackson 2bears, exploring links between technological culture, surveillance, haunting and strategies for communicating with other-than-human entities.
February 26, 2018
Camille Walsh publishes Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973
IAS faculty member Camille Walsh published Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973 with the University of North Carolina Press. The book explores the history of the concept of “taxpayer citizenship”—the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. It shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy and intertwined with ideas of whiteness. From the origins of unequal public school funding ...
February 21, 2018