News from the School of IAS
Jin-Kyu Jung: “Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung published a coauthored article, “Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis,” in Social Science & Medicine. This collaborative study offers a systematic examination of the scope and impacts of COVID-19 related crowdfunding use and outcomes, using data collected from all US-based GoFundMe campaigns mentioning COVID or ...
June 24, 2021
Dan Berger discusses prison abolition on Rumble with Michael Moore
IAS faculty member Dan Berger discussed prison abolition on Rumble with Michael Moore. The Oscar-winning filmmaker interviewed Berger about the problem of prison and whether a “Department of Restorative Justice & Redemption” should replace our existing Prison Industrial Complex. Earlier this month, Berger ...
June 22, 2021
Carrie Bodle artwork selected for Portland and Seattle public projects
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle recently had her artwork acquired for the City of Portland Portable Works Public Art Collection. Her work, Northeast Pacific Ocean Hovmoller Plots 2002-2010, was selected by curators Yaelle Amir, Elisheba Johnson, Vanessa Perez-Winder, Susanō Surface, and Jaimes Valdez on the themes of Ecology, Wellness, and Connectivity and ...
June 22, 2021
Denise Calvetti Michaels publishes The Things Downriver
MFA alum Denise Calvetti Michaels' newest book, The Things Downriver (Cave Moon Press, 2020), is comprised of lyric passages focused on interludes of summer on the farm in Salinas, California, home of her paternal grandparents, Agostina & Ercole Bianco. “During this period of childhood, my brother and I explored the boundaries of the farm and steeped ourselves within diverse cultural exchanges among neighbors, family and friends,” said Michaels.
June 21, 2021
Nicole McCarthy’s book to be published by Heavy Feather Review
Alum Nicole McCarthy’s first book is set to be published in 2022 by Heavy Feather Review. The book is an expansion of McCarthy’s MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics thesis, “Manor of Memory,” which she completed in 2017. “It wouldn't have been the book it is now without my thesis advisor, Renee Gladman, a visiting writer in our MFA program who graciously agreed to work with me,” said McCarthy.
June 21, 2021
Carrie Bodle selected as 2021 Technology Teaching Fellow
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle was selected for the 2021 Technology Teaching Fellows Institute through the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington. The Technology Teaching Fellows Institute (TTFI) offers participants the chance to learn with other faculty members, learning technologists, instructional consultants, and librarians.
June 16, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson publishes in CSPA Quarterly
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published “Mourning climate loss: ritual and collective grief in the age of crisis” in CSPA Quarterly. Her article features artists who use ritual to process the emotional toll of ecological loss and bring political attention to climate injustice. As Atkinson argues, social justice movements constantly remind us that systems of oppression are reinforced when we push their painful legacies into the shadows.
June 14, 2021
Malak Shalabi among the first to wear a hijab during law school graduation ceremony
IAS alum Malak Shalabi graduated from University of Washington School of Law this June and may be the first to wear a hijab during the graduation ceremony. In this Seattle Times article, Shalabi discusses her path to law school and the discrimination she’s faced – and transcended. Shalabi graduated from UW Bothell in 2018 with a degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy. As a student, she researched sectarian violence in Syria and the voices of Syrian people in the United States ...
June 14, 2021
Writing reaches new heights
UW Bothell’s academic journal, The CROW, is a compilation of research-related work written and published by students. The authors come from many different areas of study giving the journal a wide audience. Readers can learn about topics ranging from popular Christian music in Trump’s America to using computer programming to search for trends in the atmospheric compositions of extrasolar planets.
June 14, 2021
IAS students launch 2021 issue of Clamor
Last week, IAS students gathered in person and online to celebrate the launch of the 2021 edition of Clamor, UW Bothell's literary and arts journal. This year the editors worked entirely remotely on this intensive collaborative project, and you can read more about their process in this profile of the journal by Maria Lamarca Anderson, which features interviews with editors Sanika Nalgirkar and Jennifer Dormier ...
June 14, 2021