News from the School of IAS
Ted Hiebert’s co-authored book Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture was reviewed
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert’s co-authored book Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture was reviewed by Andrew Hugill for...
January 11, 2018
Becca Price published a co-authored paper “Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works.”
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a co-authored paper “Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works.” The paper emphasizes that college students enter science classrooms with a sophisticated understanding of the way scientists test hypotheses. However...
January 11, 2018
Raissa DeSmet teaches “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora” at the Burke Museum
IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet worked with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture as part of her fall course on “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora.” Students work with staff members at the Burke as they catalogued a collection of more than 50,000 objects embodying various traditions and cultures through time. As part of an ongoing project called “Decolonizing Collections” ...
January 5, 2018
IAS students publish in local community newspapers
Two IAS students, Hannah Horiatis and Nektaryos Xenos, were published in local community newspapers with work first created in Kristin Gustafson’s Introduction to Journalism autumn course. The Bothell-Kenmore Reporter published Horiatis’ “Rent and home prices are rising in downtown Bothell” and Xenos’ “Downtown Bothell project delayed” in December. Students in the community-based-learning-and-research course are assigned to research, visit, blog about, and then write a news article for one of several ...
January 3, 2018
Shannon Cram receives fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center where she will be a Writer in Residence for two weeks in January. The focus of Cram's residency will be her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which explores the complex politics of remediation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to more than two-thirds of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and the largest environmental cleanup in human history, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that ...
January 3, 2018
Lauren Berliner’s research cited in Mother Jones and the Financial Times
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner’s collaborative research with Nora Kenworthy was cited in the cover story of the most recent edition of Mother Jones magazine. The feature, entitled “Go Fund Yourself: Begging for health care in the new safety net,” draws on Berliner and Kenworthy’s finding that online marketing skills correlate with income, thus reproducing social inequality in social media fundraising environments. Berliner and Kenworthy’s original research ...
January 2, 2018
Zarefah Baroud – “United States and Israel: Re-evaluating a Toxic Relationship”
Recently both teleSUR and CounterPunch published “United States and Israel: Re-evaluating a Toxic Relationship”, an op-ed by IAS student Zarefah Baroud. Baroud, who is a junior in Media & Communication Studies with a minor in Human Rights, has published previously on CounterPunch, while this is the first time her work has been picked up by teleSUR. The article explores movements for Palestinian liberation, movements for Black lives and police accountability, and movements actively working against destructive immigration policy ...
January 2, 2018
Jason Lambacher publishes “Extinction & Democracy” and “Exploring the Green Nobel”
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher published "Extinction & Democracy: Wildness, Wilderness, and Global Conservation" in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (December 2017). The article promotes cross-cultural dialogue regarding species loss centered on the concept of wildness, as distinguished from the legal-philosophical idea of wilderness. Responding to critiques of wilderness conservation "gone global" that point out an insufficient attention to social and political dimensions, Lambacher argues that wildness holds special potential as a hybrid concept capable of linking ecological goals with social critiques that ...
December 28, 2017
Melinda Bocci builds inclusive communities through education and employment
Melinda Bocci (’06) had worked several years in the developmental disabilities sector when she decided to pursue a master’s in Policy Studies. Much of her work was driven by policy, and she wanted to impact change at a systemic level. While earning her degree, critical disability legislation was being implemented in Washington state. Melinda chose to ...
December 21, 2017
IAS faculty members receive support from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities
Seven IAS faculty members received support from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities in its fall 2017 funding round. Naomi Bragin will be a Society of Scholars fellow in 2018-19, enabling her to work on her book manuscript, “Black Power of Hip-Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics.” Ron Krabill and Ben Gardner are teaming up with Anu Taranath on a project focused on “Pedagogies of Reciprocity: The Politics of International Education.” Two ...
December 19, 2017