News from the School of IAS

Kelsey Lee Cate releases debut album and builds artist career online

IAS alum Kelsey Lee Cate was improvising songs before she could read. Growing up in a musical family, she began classical piano training at age five and by middle school, was performing at weddings and special events. Today, Cate is a sought-after pianist and ...

January 22, 2021

Karam Dana speaks on religion and political participation among minorities in the US

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture on January 15th as part of the On the Corner Symposium: Nexus at the Political Intersection of Race and Religion Research sponsored and hosted by the Taft Research Center of the University of Cincinnati. His lecture was titled "Role of Religion in Political Participation Among Minorities in the US.” The video ...

January 22, 2021

Amaranth Borsuk Publishes “Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona”

On January 15th the Quarantine Public Library released a new slate of free printable chapbooks, including IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's "Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona," a series of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets. QPL publishes artists' books designed for a single side of an 8.5 x 11 page which readers print, fold and cut using a simple template. ...

January 21, 2021

Kristina Jorgensen collaborates on legislation and receives capacity-building grant

In 2020, Kristina Jorgensen graduated from IAS with a major in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and began her graduate education in the M.A. in Policy Studies. She is also an alum of the D.C. Seminar in Human Rights (2019). Since beginning the M.A. in Policy Studies program, Jorgensen has successfully advanced a number of impactful justice projects through her research, networking, advocacy and leadership. ...

January 21, 2021

Karam Dana on reversing the Muslim travel ban (Q13 FOX)

IAS faculty member Karam Dana spoke to Q13 FOX about U.S. President Joe Biden's reversal of a travel ban on foreign nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries. "The Muslim ban was a travel ban that limited access to the United States, even to those who had a green card. Not only those who carry valid visas, but also ...

January 21, 2021

Kristin Gustafson publishes article on white supremacist coup

The Conversation published an article co-authored by IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson and Kathy Roberts Forde comparing the 1898 Wilmington coup and the 2021 U.S. Capitol siege for its politics/election section. “A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies” builds on Journalism & Jim Crow ...

January 19, 2021

Meshell Sturgis awarded 2021 AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Meshell Sturgis was selected as a 2021 recipient for the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and ...

January 14, 2021

Ching-In Chen published in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “Behind the Ballroom,” “Household Mutations,” “Returning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door,” “Trying to Feel Human/Tomorrow,” and “Self-Portrait, house with no one present” were published in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel, published by Nightboat Books.

January 13, 2021

Katrina Harack nominated for UW Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology

IAS faculty member Katrina Harack was honored as a nominee for a 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology by the University of Washington. This award "recognizes a current faculty member for improving student learning or engagement through an approach that leverages technology." She has enjoyed learning more about online pedagogy while converting her writing courses ...

January 12, 2021