News from the School of IAS
Benjamin Gardner Publishes Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
IAS faculty member Benjamin Gardner published Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism as part of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series at the University of Georgia Press. The book examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation ...
February 19, 2016
Interactive Artworks by IAS Faculty Amaranth Borsuk and micha cárdenas Included in Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3
The Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 3 (ELC3) continues the legacy begun by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in 2006 of curating and archiving electronic literature, which the editors define as "the artistic engagement of digital media and language." The ELC3 comprises ...
February 19, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Receive I-DISCO Seed Funding for Research Initiatives
A total of 19 IAS faculty members received I-DISCO seed funding to support a variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and development efforts. (I-DISCO stands for “Initiative to Development Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Collaboration.” Launched in 2012, I-DISCO funding was reviewed by a task force last year, and formalized, with a charge to assess and publicize its outcomes. Funding categories, and recipients, for 2016-2017 are as follows:
February 17, 2016
Karam Dana Speaks on American Muslim Political Behavior and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
IAS faculty member and Director of the American Muslims Research Institute, Karam Dana has just returned from the Boston area where he delivered two talks at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on the Palestinian nationalist narrative and on American Muslim political behavior.
February 10, 2016
Julie Shayne Leads Mock Classroom for Native American High School Students
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne lead a mock classroom for Native American high school students as part of the Reaching American Indian Nations (RAIN) recruitment event. Shayne did an abridged version of a lesson from her course “Place and Displacement in the Americas” that she co-teaches with IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson. She chose an interactive lesson about ...
February 8, 2016
Alka Kurian Presents at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented "Transnational Strategies of Resistance" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) in Portland, Oregon. This paper discussed women's participation in the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996-2006) with the view to examining the potential emancipatory possibilities it held for them.
February 8, 2016
Alia Marsha Publishes on the “Sidekicking” of Minorities in Journalism
IAS student Alia Marsha’s article, “Why Seattle Times’ “sidekicking” Hollis Wong-Wear is bad for journalism,” appeared yesterday on the Seattle Globalist site. Alia is a senior in Media and Communication Studies, and is editor-in-chief of the Husky Herald, UW Bothell’s student paper. In her article, Alia addresses ...
February 5, 2016
Becca Price Publishes Suggestions for how to Update Teaching Evolution
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez published “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms.” Based on research conducted at several colleges and universities, the article suggests ...
February 3, 2016
Mira Shimabukuro Publishes Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro published a new book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, with the University of Colorado Press. The book explores the ways Japanese Americans continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II.
February 1, 2016
Georgia Roberts Collaborates on Macklemore’s “White Privilege II”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts was a community collaborator on Macklemore's new song "White Privilege II." The song is a result of an ongoing dialogue among musicians, activists, and teachers.
January 29, 2016