News from the School of IAS
Ching-In Chen wins 2022 Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has won a 2022 Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers from the Lambda Literary Foundation. The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers recognizes LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates ...
June 7, 2022
GWSS student Leah Curtis publishes Story of Pride with The Trevor Project
Leah Curtis (she/they) transferred to UW Bothell as a Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) major this academic year and she is already a published author! Curtis, a volunteer for the national organization The Trevor Project wrote a piece for their blog series Stories of Pride. In it ..
June 6, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits at Cromwell Place for London Gallery Weekend 2022
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali presented her artworks from May 10 - May 22, 2022 in a group exhibition titled “Rituals and Performances” for London Gallery Weekend at Cromwell Place in partnership with A.I. Gallery. After this two week exhibition period, the works will ...
June 3, 2022
Ching-In Chen selected as Intercultural Leadership Institute Year 4 Fellow
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been selected as an Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) Year 4 Fellow, a year-long intensive leadership experience for artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners. ILI is a ...
June 3, 2022
Alka Kurian interviews Barkha Dutt
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian interviewed Barkha Dutt at an event hosted by Tasveer on May 27, 2022. Barkha Dutt is one of India's best-known and award-winning broadcast journalists with over 20 years of experience. She is a columnist with the Washington Post and the Hindustan Times and ...
May 31, 2022
Charlie Collins publishes “Disrupting White racial dominance”
IAS faculty member Charlie Collins, along with IAS alumni Jeanne Macbeth, Allison R. Morgan, andTaylor M. Kenney, is co-author of a new article in the Journal of Community Psychology titled: "Disrupting White racial dominance: How White antiracists challenge the racial status quo in interpersonal relationships." ...
May 31, 2022
Avery Shinneman co-chairs “Access and Human Connection to Public Waters: Research and Outreach”
IAS faculty member Avery Shinneman co-chaired a session titled " Access and Human Connection to Public Waters: Research and Outreach" at the Joint Aquatic Sciences meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan in May 2022. Speakers addressed ways to ...
May 31, 2022
Coming alive with performance
When most people think of performance, they think of dance recitals, plays or concerts. But according to IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, performance is something anyone can do, at anytime, anywhere. “Everything can be a stage, and any place can be a gallery,” Ali said. “It’s just a switch in your thinking.”
May 31, 2022
Melissa Watkinson-Schutten publishes “Decolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands”
IAS alum Melissa Watkinson-Schutten (B.A. in Global Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior; minor in Human Rights; M.A in Policy Studies) has published the article article, “Decolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands,” in the prestigious Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, based on research she began while in IAS. ...
May 26, 2022
Margaret Redsteer publishes chapter in Handbook of North American Indians
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer is a coauthor of "Native American Communities and Climate Change," a chapter in the new (2022) introductory volume of the Handbook of North American Indians published by the Smithsonian Institution.
May 26, 2022