Adam Romero publishes new book, Economic Poisoning

IAS faculty member Adam Romero's new monograph, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, is being released by University of California Press, as part of the Critical Environments Series. From the publisher's site:

October 26, 2021

Jennifer Atkinson speaks about the emotional toll of climate disruption

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke about the emotional toll of climate disruption at New Mexico State University as part of their Climate Change Education Seminar Series on October 20. She also discussed the topic in an interview with KTAL Radio in Las Cruces, NM, highlighting recent research on the psychological distress youth and children experience in the face of government inaction on our climate crisis. The study ...

October 26, 2021

Shannon Cram presents “Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility”

On October 13th, IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented "Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility" at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This talk explored the entangled challenges of waste, illness, and remediation at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to the majority of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and ...

October 22, 2021

Hana Abdulrahman named to Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for Students

Hana Abdulrahman, a current Master of Arts in Policy Studies candidate, has been named as the Graduate Student Representative for the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for Students (CACS). As a body, CACS represents all students at UW Bothell and collaborates to advise the Chancellor and the executive team on campus-wide issues and major initiatives affecting students. Hana brings ...

October 20, 2021

Ching-In Chen published in NOMBONO

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Flood Fathers” and “Guest/Stalker” was published in NOMBONO: an Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators From Around the World, edited by Akua Lezli Hope, from Sundress Publications. “In the stunning and imaginative NOMBONO ...

October 20, 2021

Jin-Kyu Jung: “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present”

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a report, “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present,” with Dr. Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr. and Evan Dash at the University of Buffalo Center for Urban Studies. The study aimed to determine how the City’s emerging post-industrial or knowledge economy impacted African Americans, and sought to determine if the Black socioeconomic trajectory is ...

October 18, 2021

IAS Dean Brinda Sarathy cares for our community

For Brinda Sarathy, becoming the new dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell felt like a calling. When she saw the open position, she was struck by the school’s goal to create lasting partnerships “that are socially-just and committed to finding environmentally-sustainable options for the development of ...

October 18, 2021

Julie Shayne presents at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference

In honor of her new book, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session titled “50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Book.” On the (zoom) panel, she presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS.”

October 15, 2021