News from the School of IAS
Bruce Burgett publishes Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett published Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition with New York University Press. Co-edited with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the print-digital volume includes 114 essays, 64 in print and 48 online. The Keywords website also includes pedagogical materials to support instructors who teach print or online essays in their courses.
November 17, 2020
Ching-In Chen publishes “Improvising the World: a Breakout Session/Experiment in Pedagogy”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Improvising the World: a Breakout Session/Experiment in Pedagogy” was published in Urgent Possibilities: Writing on Feminist Poetics & Emergence Pedagogies, an anthology of 17 saddle stitched pamphlets as part of the eohippus labs Annex Series.
November 16, 2020
Ching-In Chen was awarded Course Development Grant
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded a 2020 Course Development Grant for their Autumn 2020 course, Breathing in a Time of Disaster (BISIA 311: Creative Writing Prose), from the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the East Asia Center. The grant is an extremely competitive award that recognizes innovative teaching at the UW. This autumn ...
November 12, 2020
Maryam Griffin publishes “Transcending Enclosures by Bus”
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published “Transcending Enclosures by Bus: Public Transit Protests, Frame Mobility, and the Many Facets of Colonial Occupation” in Critique of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue called “Occupations in Context: The Cultural Logics of Occupation, Settler Violence, and Resistance,” co-edited by ...
November 10, 2020
Julie Shayne presents paper at Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels symposium
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS” at the Critical Border Crossing symposium. Shayne’s paper was about her new book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.
November 9, 2020
Mari McMenamin: Border Stories
IAS student Mari McMenamin's podcast on life at the Mexico/Southern California border for 91.3 KBCS (Bellevue College’s award-winning community radio station serving the Seattle-Tacoma region) is featured in an article from Bellevue College News. At KBCS ...
November 9, 2020
Chris McRae helped build veteran-friendly campus
Randall Christopher McRae helped make the University of Washington Bothell a veteran-friendly campus. After his military service, McRae attended UW Bothell and received a degree in Community Psychology in 2012. During his time on campus, he helped develop the Student Veterans Association and served as one of its first presidents. He raised funds for the Veterans Archway, which was dedicated in 2013 to honor student veterans.
November 6, 2020
EJ Juárez: Understanding the architecture of power
EJ Juárez, a 2013 Master of Arts in Cultural Studies graduate, who now is the public policy manager for Group Health Foundation, will lead a UW Bothell What If…? Conversation on Nov. 12. Juárez will discuss how we might think differently about public spaces and institutions, like libraries. “They’re a place where people are seeing and interacting with other people, where they are learning a skill, where they are finding their own imagination,” he said. “I am interested in the design of those spaces and the impact of that on our democracy and society.”
November 6, 2020
Q&A: First-generation students
In honor of National First-Generation College Celebration Day on Nov. 8, a few of UW Bothell’s first-gen students answer questions from Director of Communications Maria Lamarca Anderson. Included are three IAS students: Hieu Doan, a Black and Vietnamese senior in Interactive Media Design; Jacky Guzman, a Mexican-American transfer student from Everett Community College majoring in both American & Ethnic Studies and in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Diversity Studies; and Maritza Lauriano Ortega, a Mexican/Latina senior in Environmental Studies with a minor in Human Rights.
November 6, 2020
Becca Price publishes on collaboration with the Pacific Science Center
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the School of STEM and Dr. Eva Ma from UW Tacoma, published an article about a collaboration between the UW and Pacific Science Center. Price is the Executive Director of STEP-WISE, a program in which postdoctoral fellows in scientific fields learn how to teach ...
November 4, 2020