News from the School of IAS
Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow Receives Beulah Rose Poetry Prize
Last week venerable literary journal Smartish Pace named IAS alum Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) the winner of its 19th annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Her poem "the what inside the thing made kin" will appear in the Summer 2022 issue of the journal alongside the other winners and finalists. ...
February 24, 2022
Talena Lachelle Queen’s Poem Featured in New Jersey Black History Curriculum
IAS alum Talena Lachelle Queen (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) has been busy at work with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to support the design and implementation of representative curricula throughout the state. ...
February 23, 2022
Kyra Laughlin helps launch medical advocacy services for sexual assault survivors
IAS alum, Kyra Laughlin (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, 2018, Master of Arts in Policy Studies 2019), has successfully partnered with the community-based organization Rebuilding Hope to implement King County’s only in-person medical advocacy program for sexual assault victim-survivors. ...
February 23, 2022
Ching-In Chen publishes “Inside me, more family”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, more family” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a triannual online literary magazine which publishes work interested in the socio-political influences on ...
February 22, 2022
Becca Price publishes “Capturing instructor complexity with persona methodology”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Tati Russo-Tait (The University of Texas at Austin) have published a set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Zagallo et al.) develops personas of instructors participating in ...
February 16, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Bee Elliot featured in Taking the Heat
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and alum Bee Elliot are featured in a new book called Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. In the book’s opening chapter, author Bonnie Schneider profiles Atkinson’s class on Climate Anxiety and Hope ...
February 15, 2022
Megan Dunn: Passion meets policy
“All of the change I pushed for in the environmental world was tied to policy, so I needed that background to carry out the change I advocated for,” says Master of Arts in Policy Studies alum Megan Dunn.
February 14, 2022
Kari Lerum: “Counter-cultured Girlhoods”
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was invited by the Henry Art Gallery to write a response to an exhibition of photographs and paintings (showing Feb. 4, 2022-May 29, 2022) entitled “Double Dare Ya: Burns, Kurland, & Ross-Ho.” As part of ...
February 11, 2022
MFA Alum Woogee Bae interviews Dao Strom for Full Stop
The latest issue of Full Stop, a journal of reviews and interviews, includes a lengthy interview between Woogee Bae (MFA, 2019) and author, artist, and musician Dao Strom. Strom previously visited the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics as ...
February 11, 2022
Julie Shayne at “Gender and Resistance” book salon
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne participated in a book salon at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting (virtual). Titled “Gender and Resistance,” participants in the salon discussed their books related to this theme. Shayne discussed ...
February 7, 2022