News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Kari Lerum Publishes “Should Prostitution be Decriminalized?”

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published “Should prostitution be decriminalized?” at The Conversation in partnership with PBS’ “Point Taken.” The essay was posted at PBS as recommended reading material for a debate on “Should paying for sex be a crime?” In this opinion piece Lerum argues ...

June 2, 2016

Jin-Kyu Jung and Taylor Frazier Publish “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens”

A recent IAS graduate, Taylor L. Frazier ('15, Law, Economics & Public Policy), and IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens: A Case Study of Seattle’s P-Patches from 1996 to 2006,” in the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.

May 25, 2016

IAS Funds Two Additional Research Interest Groups for 2016-17

Two additional Research Interest Groups (RIGs) have received I-DISCO seed funding for interdisciplinary research and development projects over the 2016-2017 academic year: Project title: Investigating Racial Disparities in Health Project title: Urban Gardens

May 24, 2016

Dan Berger Speaks at Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom Conference

IAS faculty member Dan Berger spoke at a conference entitled Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom at the University of California Santa Barbara. The conference brought together scholars in the fields of classics, American history, and African American studies for a comparative study of slavery and its afterlives in Greece, Rome, and the Americas. Berger’s lecture was called ...

May 20, 2016

Science, Technology, and Society Class Collaborates with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to Produce Podcasts

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram's Science, Technology, and Society class collaborated with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to create podcasts for its series, Down by the River: Stories of Hanford. Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced weapons-grade plutonium for more than forty years and is now the site of the world's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup.

May 18, 2016

Christian Anderson and Jin-Kyu Jung Publish “Extending the conversation on socially engaged geographic visualization: representing spatial inequality in Buffalo, New York”

IAS faculty members Christian Anderson and Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “Extending the conversation on socially engaged geographic visualization: representing spatial inequality in Buffalo, New York,” in Urban Geography. The paper is situated at the intersections among GIS and geovisualization, critical social theory, and urban studies ...

May 18, 2016

Julie Shayne Blogs About Her Decision to Leave the Tenure Track

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was asked by the editor of the blog Conditionally Accepted to discuss alternative paths through academia. In her post Shayne reflects on the decision she made a full decade ago. Honestly discussing the frustrations of ...

May 18, 2016