News from the School of IAS

Melissa Watkinson receives Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition Forward Award

Local environmental justice leader and IAS alum Melissa Watkinson has been selected to receive a Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition Forward Award. Watkinson is a social scientist with Washington Sea Grant where she supports the social science efforts on the Olympic Coast Ocean Acidification Vulnerability study, a community-based participatory project with WA’s coastal treaty tribes. She is also the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ...

September 11, 2020

Ching-In Chen poem included in Alone Together anthology

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Dear O” was selected for inclusion in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. All proceeds will benefit indie booksellers via The Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Chen was also profiled as ...

September 9, 2020

Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures

IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. The article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...

September 9, 2020

Amaranth Borsuk Talks Writing and Nourishment at Entropy

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was interviewed this past spring by Danielle Susi for Entropy's Dinnerview, a column in which writers discuss food as it relates to their work, identity, and writing practice. Borsuk touches on how becoming a parent has rewired her relationship to food, reveals her own food quirks and favorites, and ...

September 8, 2020

Kristin Gustafson organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...

September 8, 2020

Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars

IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins have launched a UW-wide Imagining Trans Futures research group. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group support trans scholars in their research and writing and to bring trans studies scholars to the UW community through a speaker series open to the public. The aim of this group is ...

September 4, 2020

Becca Price: “Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM”

IAS faculty member Becca Price published an article about a workshop that helps end discrimination against women in university science. Attendees learn how to recognize discrimination against women—and how to intervene when they see it. The workshop focuses on four case studies about gendered microaggressions, intersectional ...

September 4, 2020

Ursula Valdez and Greg Tuke’s COIL course “The Great Rivers” profiled by Stevens Initiative

IAS faculty fember Ursula Valdez and COIL collaborator Greg Tuke’s COIL course on “The Great Rivers” has been profiled in “Exploring Environmental Sustainability: Promising practices in virtual exchange,” as one of the three examples for virtual exchange programs that connect young people in different countries to develop solutions to environmental issues. Valdez and Tuke ...

September 3, 2020