News from the School of IAS

Karam Dama receives 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award

IAS faculty member Karam Dana has won the 2018 UW Bothell Distinguished Teaching Award. Dana joined IAS in 2010 and since that time has proven himself to be an outstanding and successful teacher, mentor, and colleague. He is, in the words of the award selection committee...

April 17, 2018

Alexa Russo coordinates Earth Week at UW Bothell

Recent alum Alexa Russo (’17, Environmental Studies) was planning to be an elementary school teacher when she began her studies. While at Cascadia College, she fell in love with the North Creek Wetlands and started thinking about career options in the environmental field. After transferring to UW Bothell...

April 16, 2018

Alka Kurian’s #MeToo article receives international attention

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's recently-published article on #MeToo - charting the rise of fourth wave feminism in India - was reprinted by many newspapers across the world including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the UK, India, Sri Lanka, and some countries in Africa. It was also ...

April 3, 2018

Julie Shayne organized two sessions and presents a paper at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies coordinator Julie Shayne organized two sessions at this year’s PSA conference. The first one was “The Feminist Classroom: Pedagogy, Student Research, and Film” where she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy and Collaboration: The Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA-WA).” The session also included a paper by Shayne’s former student and IAS alum Taylor Hiner (read by Julie in their absence.) Shayne and Hiner presented about the FCA-WA ...

April 2, 2018

Priya Frank promotes SAM exhibit “Figuring History” on New Day Northwest

Alum Priya Frank (’11, Cultural Studies) discussed Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) exhibit “Figuring History” on KING5 TV’s New Day Northwest. Figuring History features the works of Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas, three contemporary American artists from different generations, who challenge the Western tradition of History Painting and its underrepresentation of people of color.

March 30, 2018

Karam Dana lectures at Harvard on “The Future of Palestine and Palestinians”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture at Harvard University on March 20, 2018 titled “The Future of Palestine and Palestinians: Key Insights from Public Opinion and the Making of Future Policy.” The lecture examined the military occupation and conditions under which Palestinians are currently living. The lecture outlined the directions to which Palestinians have been headed based on a public opinion survey he conducted. The lecture also ...

March 30, 2018

Evan Westenberger finds career success in digital media

Evan Westenberger (’09) was born and raised in Seattle and once made his living as a teenage magician, delivered balloons, and scooped ice cream. Westenberger has come a long way over the past decade, and his creative, entrepreneurial drive has only shifted in form. Currently, he runs the global social and digital engagement program for Microsoft Enterprise Services, a group that makes up about one fifth of Microsoft. ...

March 28, 2018

Alumni Shout Out!

Jennifer Gess (’07, Community Psychology) began an adjunct faculty position at Seattle University this spring. She is also a full-time professor for Walden University, and for both institutions, she teaches in their graduate counseling departments. Salem Levesque (’11, Cultural Studies) and co-author Butch de Castro were published in Public Health Nursing. Their paper “Using a digital storytelling assignment to teach public health advocacy” describes how digital story making can be utilized as an academic assignment to teach public health advocacy within an undergraduate nursing curriculum. Travis Sharp ...

March 27, 2018