News from the School of IAS

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

Book group provides space to engage with human rights issues

This fall, IAS Professor Emeritus Diane Gillespie will facilitate a discussion of the book, However Long the Night, by Aimee Molloy. However Long the Night chronicles the work of Gillespie’s sister, Molly Melching, founder of the Senegal-based community development organization, Tostan. Molloy’s account details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and voice for the rights of girls and women. All are invited to attend ...

May 30, 2017

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies celebrates the end of a wonderful first year!

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) students, staff, and faculty, along with supporters at UW Bothell, gathered for a recognition ceremony last week to celebrate the end of a great first year. The day was dedicated to Dr. Leslie Ashbaugh, beloved colleague who passed away last year. IAS affiliate faculty member Karen Rosenberg shared memories of Leslie, and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented two students with Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Awards.

May 23, 2017

Activist Kelsen Caldwell enacts social justice in communities and on buses

Alum Kelsen Caldwell (’13, Cultural Studies) continues to expand their horizons and recently became a Housing Justice Organizer with LGBTQ Allyship. In this role, they are helping launch and facilitate the LGBTQ Housing Leadership Institute. Of this endeavor, Kelsen writes, “Housing costs are on the rise, which puts LGBTQ communities at increased risk of homelessness, displacement, and general economic insecurity. The institute is an awesome opportunity to be part of a cohort of emerging housing justice leaders who can build fierce and grounded solutions through organizing with the communities that matter the most.”

May 22, 2017

Baba Badru paves career in environmental health and real estate

Baba Badru (’08, Science, Technology & the Environment) has spent the past two years as an Environmental Investigator for Public Health – Seattle & King County. He works on a wide range of projects, including developing and implementing strategies to prevent and mitigate unlawful dumping of waste across King County. More recently, Baba has conducted public health and environmental monitoring of solid waste facilities across King County, ranging from small scale recyclers, to private and public solid waste transfer stations and material recovery facilities. Baba also ...

May 22, 2017

Martha Groom blogs on ways scientists can support inclusivity

IAS faculty member Martha Groom collaborated with national colleagues to draw attention to the need for diversity in STEM fields. While the April national March for Science highlighted the social importance of supporting scientific research and education, the blog post from the Concerned Scientists' website ...

May 16, 2017

Mira Shimabukuro speaks about her book Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke twice recently about her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration. The first was an interview/article published in the journal Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and their Descendants . The second was a talk presented in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. Both emphasized the ways Japanese Americans used vernacular writing to respond to mass incarceration during World War II and ...

May 15, 2017

Eight IAS Faculty Members Promoted

Eight IAS faculty members were promoted this year. S. Charusheela was promoted from associate to full professor. Becky Aanerud and David Goldstein were promoted from senior to principal lecturer. Dan Berger, Shauna Carlisle, Johanna Crane, and Santiago Lopez were promoted with tenure from assistant to associate professor. And Kristin Gustafson was promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer.

May 15, 2017

Lauren Lichty wins UW Bothell Mentor Award

IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty and is one of two UW Bothell faculty that received the 2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice Mentor Award. Lichty joined IAS in 2013 and found the undergraduate mentoring process to be a particularly rewarding part of her career. Nominated by peers and students, Lichty’s mentoring philosophy centers on meeting students where they are and allowing the work to flow from that starting point. One student writes ...

May 15, 2017