News from the School of IAS
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
Courtney McCurdy advocates for immigrants and refugees
Alum Courtney McCurdy (’03) is thrilled to become the Refugee Program Consultant for North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. This role enables her to support refugee agencies at a policy level after many years of direct service. McCurdy’s travels and interdisciplinary education have been key to her career path.
March 8, 2018
A Culture of Giving in IAS
The University of Washington Bothell recognizes donors whose giving reaches $25,000 as Founder-level benefactors. Bruce Burgett, Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS), recently met that level, an amount he admits reaching accidentally, simply because he was supporting a school he believes in and helping students and faculty whose success he champions daily. ...
March 6, 2018
Students reap the benefits of D.C. human rights scholarship
The Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar is UW Bothell’s longest running experiential learning program and, inarguably, one of its most transformative. Founded in 1991, the seminar offers a unique opportunity for students to engage with human rights policy at national and international levels. Students travel to D.C. and for six demanding days, taking part in intensive seminars and briefings with institutions and policy makers across the political spectrum. ...
March 6, 2018
Natalia Valdez hosts Boeing career panel at UW Bothell
Alum Natalia Valdez (’11, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) joined forces with UW Bothell Career Services to host a panel discussion with Boeing colleagues representing the areas of Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Procurement/Systems/IT, and Human Resources. Students across majors attended to learn about their career paths, day-to-day responsibilities, and the company culture. ...
March 6, 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
After the MFA: The Trace Remains – Alumni in Conversation
By Andrew Carson (’16) I recently had the opportunity to meet up over lunch with Lynarra Featherly and Sarah Baker, fellow alumni of the University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program. What resulted was a ranging conversation during which we discussed our MFA experiences, our lives now, and a few pertinent asides.
February 27, 2018
Natalie Singer releases memoir: California Calling: A Self-Interrogation
This week alum Natalie Singer (’16, Creative Writing & Poetics) releases her memoir, California Calling: A Self-Interrogation. Singer will discuss her memoir at Elliott Bay Books on March 5, joined in conversation by Sonora Jha, Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence and author of Foreign. On March 13 Singer will appear at Lit Fix, Seattle’s bar-friendliest reading and music series, hosted at Chop Suey.
February 27, 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