News from the School of IAS
Denise Vaughan discusses the difference between the presidential debate and academic debate (KOMO news)
IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan was interviewed by KOMO news sports reporter Bill Swartz about the UW Bothell Speech and Debate team and the upcoming Presidential Debate. The discussion (listen here) focused on difference between academic debate and what we see on the Presidential Debates where interruptions are frequent, as well as how the UW Bothell team has adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 23, 2020
Julie Shayne speaks on a plenary session at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne spoke on a plenary session titled “Persistence Is Resistance” at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference. The session was organized to celebrate Shayne’s new open access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne discussed the origins ...
October 23, 2020
Dan Berger publishes Remaking Radicalism anthology
IAS faculty member Dan Berger, together with University of Nevada Reno historian Emily Hobson, published a book of writings by US social movements in the late twentieth century. The anthology is called Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 and ...
October 20, 2020
Study abroad in India turns into virtual internship
Everyone on campus had to pivot when the coronavirus forced the University of Washington Bothell into remote operations, but one of the biggest twists may have been how a planned study abroad trip to India turned into a virtual internship program.
October 19, 2020
Marcus Johnson publishes on Black cultural studies
Marcus Johnson is an M.A. in Cultural Studies alum (’16) and Ph.D. candidate at the UW Department of Communication. He recently co-authored the article “Black Cultural Studies is Intersectionality” with Dr. Ralina Joseph, which was published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. The article argues ...
October 15, 2020
Berette Macaulay and Black Cinema Collective extend programming and engagements virtually
Berette Macaulay (Cultural Studies, ’20) founded Black Cinema Collective (BCC) in 2019, developing and co-organizing all programming with classmates Mateó Ochoa (Cultural Studies, ’19) and Savita Krishnamoorthy (Cultural Studies, ’20), who joined in 2020. In February 2020, BCC facilitated public discussion of “Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA” at the Henry Art Gallery with director and visiting filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis. Soon thereafter the COVID-19 pandemic closed public spaces for such gatherings ...
October 13, 2020
Berette Macaulay named to new position at Henry Art Gallery
Berette Macaulay (M.A. in Cultural Studies, ’20) has been named to a new position, Museum Guide Program Manager, at the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle campus). In this new role, Macaulay will pilot and lead a new museum guide training program. She will create curriculum that offers UW undergraduate students from multiple disciplines formal training from Henry staff, developing ...
October 13, 2020
Neil Simpkins on the politics of access and trauma-informed pedagogy
IAS faculty member Neil Simpkins contributed “The Sticky Note Snap” to a symposium on “Enacting a Culture of Access in Our Conference Spaces” that appeared in College Composition and Communication. This piece examines building access in academic conference spaces.
October 12, 2020
Ching-In Chen’s writings published in Foglifter
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “En Route Family,” “’Registration Marks’ or ‘a kind of breathing vocabulary on a daily level’ and “No” were published in Foglifter, a literary magazine focused on queer and trans writing which recently was awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Foglifter is a ...
October 9, 2020
Margaret Redsteer cited regarding the Navajo Nation’s battle with climate change
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer was cited in a Reuters news story on drought and climate change “We Don’t Give up Really Easily: Navajo Ranchers Battle Climate Change.” Redsteer explains how drought is magnified by the long-term changes to water availability on the Navajo Nation, leaving its people increasingly vulnerable.
October 9, 2020