News from the School of IAS
Brinda Sarathy: Before Amazon
IAS faculty member and dean Brinda Sarathy recently published an article examining the “pre-history” of warehouses and logistics in inland Southern California prior to the birth of Amazon. Sarathy’s work traces the production of the Inland Empire’s logistics industry to the development of military installations, differentially incarcerated ...
September 27, 2021
Ching-In Chen teaches at LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen taught two workshops at this year’s 15th Annual LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop in Tieton, Washington and has nominated MFA student Madison Nikfard and Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Sam Prudente to serve as ...
September 27, 2021
Colin Danby publishes two articles on the history of political economy
IAS faculty member Colin Danby has published two new articles on development economics. The first is a biographical article on the Mexican economist Juan Noyola (1922-1962) for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ...
September 24, 2021
Bruce Burgett edits a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited (with Glenn Hendler, Fordham University) a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory.” Keywords Now is an extension of Burgett and Hendler’s co-edited Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. It is designed to explore ongoing shifts in the meanings of key terms that shape research, teaching, and thinking about complex social and cultural issues. The current cluster responds to right-wing attacks ...
September 24, 2021
IAS faculty receive international grant to study costal erosion
Former IAS Visiting Scholar Bo Ae Chun and IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Santiago Lopez have been awarded an international collaboration grant over $200,000 from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The 3-year project entitled “An International Comparative Study of Transnational Citizenship and Social Participation Competencies in the Post-COVID-19 Era” will focus on ...
September 22, 2021
Corbin Louis releases music and poetry
This summer, IAS alum Corbin Louis (B.A. Culture, Literature & the Arts 2014; MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics 2017) has been active in the poetry and music communities in Seattle, finding ways to share his work with a variety of audiences. Louis, a Seattle artist with deep roots in slam poetry and DIY music, says of his practice, "as a UW Bothell alum, my goal is to write with a reason. For me that means ...
September 3, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: 12 Women Scholars on undercitation of scholarship by women and people of color
12 Women Scholars, an environmental history writing group that includes IAS dean Brinda Sarathy, has issued a challenge to scholarly journals and presses. The group posted “A Disturbing Pattern” on the Inside Higher Ed website, exposing a pattern of inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color in ...
August 27, 2021
Scott Bentley receives fellowships from Hugo House and Mineral School
IAS alum Scott Bentley (MFA 2021) has been selected as a 2021-2022 Hugo Fellow by Seattle's Hugo House. The fellowship supports emerging writers in the Seattle area who are working to complete a proposed project. Bentley will use the fellowship to continue working on his manuscript of visual and translation poetry Bwai \ Remapping, which began as his MFA thesis. The poems rely ...
August 23, 2021
Akshara Balakrishnan signs on as a Cohort Operations and Programs Coordinator at the Q-Center
Akshara Balakrishnan, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies ('21), is now at the UW Seattle Q-Center, working on creating a cohort for trans femmes of color. This space is open to both UW students and non-students alike. Akshara, who was GWSS Student Representative for the 2020-21 academic year, is excited to ...
August 19, 2021
Margaret H. Redsteer named Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter lead for 5th National Climate Assessment
IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as the chapter lead for the Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Redsteer will work with Rachel Novak from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Climate Change Adaptation Program as the coordinating lead. Redsteer’s role as chapter lead includes ...
August 18, 2021