News from the School of IAS
MFA student Nicole McCarthy’s project “Chatter” to appear in the 2018 Best American Experimental Writing Anthology
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics student Nicole McCarthy's project "Chatter" (see images below) will appear in the 2018 Best American Experimental Writing Anthology from Wesleyan Press. McCarthy reflects on her works inclusion in the anthology:
June 6, 2017
Jed Murr presents “Whiteness: Seven Frames” and also receives early-career faculty fellowship
IAS faculty member Jed Murr presented a multi-media presentation entitled “Whiteness: Seven Frames” as part of INTERRUPTING WHITENESS, a PechaKucha Night at the Seattle Public Library and on KUOW. The event, featuring Robin DiAngelo, Shelby Handler, Ijeoma Oluo, and other cultural workers and organizers, focused on the necessity for white people to work “with communities of color, to center people of color and be supportive of collective work to end racism and create a deeper collective humanity.” Murr’s talk emphasized ...
June 6, 2017
Naomi Bragin and Jade Power-Sotomayor to host “Improvisational Crossings: Social Dance as Interdisciplinary Intervention”
IAS faculty members Naomi Bragin and Jade Power-Sotomayor, together with Juliet McMains (UW Seattle) have been awarded funding from the Simpson Center to host a public two-day colloquium, “Improvisational Crossings: Social Dance as Interdisciplinary Intervention.” This colloquium will bring together six dance scholar/practitioners from differing disciplinary backgrounds for two days of lectures, workshops, and dialogue that address border crossings through the lens of improvisational social dance. Collectively they will ask ...
June 5, 2017
Stephen Ssemaala to receive UW Bothell’s 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
IAS is proud to recognize alum Stephen Ssemaala (’03, Global Studies), who will receive UW Bothell's 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award at Commencement on June 13. Ssemaala, a political refugee from Uganda, is a lawyer and philanthropist who started a foundation to improve schools in Uganda. ...
June 5, 2017
Drue Nyenhuis focuses career on affecting community change
Drue Nyenhuis ('12) majored in Global Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior and minored in Human Rights and Policy Studies at UW Bothell. These IAS programs have helped guide Drue's career toward one of community engagement and public service. While at UW Bothell, Drue participated in the Washington State Legislative Internship, which switched his career focus from law school to politics and public policy. Drue also participated in the D.C. Human Rights Seminar, which further cemented his love for politics and affecting change in his community. Witnessing ...
June 2, 2017
MFA Careers and Writing Futures event features journeys of local writers
On May 17, four MFA-trained writers met with students and alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program to discuss their career paths. Hosted at McMenamins Anderson School, conversation centered on the diverse ways writers grow and sustain their creative practices. Special guests included: MFA alumni Scott Brown (’15), Talena Lachelle Queen (’14) and Natalie Singer-Velush (’16), and local artist Sierra Nelson. ...
June 1, 2017
Becca Price publishes on measuring student knowledge of biological concepts
IAS faculty member Becca Price published two co-authored papers about measuring what students know about different biological concepts. The first paper describes the Homeostasis Concept Inventory, a tool for assessing undergraduate students’ understanding of a process that is critical to physiology. Briefly, the concept of homeostasis describes the way the body maintains equilibrium, for example regulating a steady blood pressure. The Homeostasis Concept Inventory advances ...
June 1, 2017
Alumni Shout Out!
Vy Nguyen (’12, Policy Studies) was appointed appointment as legislative aide to Seattle Councilmember Lorena González, where she will serve as policy lead on immigrant and refugee affairs, housing, homelessness, and education. Joe Shelley (’04, Global Studies), UW Bothell’s Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, has accepted an offer to become Vice President for Libraries and Information Technology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Ben Wiselogle (’12, Global Studies) began a new position as a Foreign Affairs Officer with U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. We wish you all the best!
June 1, 2017
Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale
IAS faculty member Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale. The book engages in and advances debates concerning globalization by starting from a deceptively simple question: Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? In addressing this question, Danby shows that both camps rest on the same ideas about how the world is scaled. Beginning at least two centuries ago ...
May 30, 2017
Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale
IAS faculty member Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale. The book engages in and advances debates concerning globalization by starting from a deceptively simple question: Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? In addressing this question, Danby shows that both camps rest on the same ideas about how the world is scaled. Beginning at least two centuries ago ...
May 30, 2017