News from the School of IAS

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

Shannon Cram: “A Good Day to Die”

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece in the literary journal River Teeth. Cram's mini essay, "A Good Day to Die," appeared in the journal's "Beautiful Things" series, a weekly online publication featuring, "very brief nonfiction that finds beauty in the everyday."

November 2, 2020

Dan Berger publishes in Colin Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People”

IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes an article in "Abolition for the People," a month-long series edited by Colin Kaepernick and appearing in Medium. Coauthored with UC President's Postdoctoral fellow David Stein, the article examines the policy agenda of police and prison abolitionists. "Police and prisons uphold the world that is ...

October 30, 2020

Jin-Kyu Jung speaks on regeneration of railway land in Busan, Korea

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a panelist in the Busan-SEMAPA Joint International Seminar on “Innovative Regeneration of Railway Land,” held in Busan, Korea. Jung discussed several interwoven forms of innovation in both SEMAPA’s “Paris Rive Gauche” urban regeneration project and Busan’s new urban railway land redevelopment plan and the inclusive and innovative urban transformation strategies for the City of Busan.

October 28, 2020

My Story: Why I vote

Elisabeth Schnebele, a senior majoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, could have voted in 2016, but didn’t. Learn what happened, how her mind has changed since then, and why she voted in 2020. “This year, I am voting — for myself, for Molly, the Jane Doe’s, people of color, the LGBTQ community, immigrants both documented and undocumented ... for anyone who feels like they don’t have power. I will fight for you with my vote and help write a better future for us all.”

October 28, 2020

Frances Lee investigates threats to subsistence fishing with Melissa Watkinson and Haliehana Stepetin

As a 2019-20 Environmental Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow for Seattle Globalist, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) examined the threats of climate change and pollution to marine subsistence harvesting. In their article “Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribes," published in the South Seattle Emerald, Lee discusses ...

October 27, 2020