News from the School of IAS

Julie Shayne blogs about Trump inspired trauma

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the trauma the Trump campaign caused many feminists. In it she argues that reliving the sexist double standards of the 2016 campaign, watching the misogyny on the campaign trail, and seeing an accused sexual predator get so close to the presidency for a second time, was a psychologically traumatic experience for millions of women in the US; especially survivors of sexual assault.

November 20, 2020

Hip hop artist and alum Essam Muhammad shares his story and creative practice

Essam Muhammad is a UW Bothell alum, South Seattle-based rapper/poet, and community organizer. On October 20, he connected with students over Zoom for the event "Coming Home: Songs, Stories, & Conversation with Essam Muhammad" organized by UW Bothell’s Campus Events Board (CEB) and IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts. Muhammad spoke on ...

November 19, 2020

Laura Harkewicz publishes “We Can’t Relocate the World”

IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz published “’We Can’t Relocate the World’: Activists, Doctors, and a Radiation-Exposed Identity” in the Washington State University Press book, Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World. The chapter ruminates on the physical and psychic toll of post-war nuclear testing and the indeterminate correlation between radiation exposure and illness. In this piece, Harkewicz narrates the relationships between U.S. government doctors, antinuclear activists, and the peoples of Rongelap and Utirik in the Marshall Islands who ...

November 17, 2020

Taking contamination out of community gardens

Melanie Malone, an IAS faculty member who researches contaminants in urban gardens, teamed up with community partners to test and remediate soil in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, where residents could use some healthy produce. Malone and community partners received a Population Health Equity Research Grant to sample soil at gardens in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. It’s close to the Duwamish River Superfund site, designated for a special federal cleanup program because of a century of industrial pollution.

November 17, 2020

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 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

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