News from the School of IAS
My Story: Ending mass incarceration
While a student, Daisy Wong participated in IAS faculty member Gary Carpenter’s “Arts of Social Transformation,” a mixed enrollment course at Monroe Correctional Complex, alongside incarcerated individuals. Says Wong, “As a Community Psychology major, this course was a culmination of everything that I had learned about systemic oppression, racism and how these mechanisms disproportionately affect black and brown communities.” The recent graduate is now pursuing a Master of Social Work at UW in Seattle.
February 3, 2020
Melanie Malone’s work highlighted as part of UW’s Urban Environmental Justice Initiative
With a background in soil science and geology, Melanie Malone positions her work in the space of Critical Physical Geography, a theoretical framework that connects biophysical sciences to social sciences and spatial analysis. In her teaching and research, Malone’s technical experience in the environmental remediation of industrial and Superfund sites merges with a consideration of social justice and equity. She emphasizes that issues like racism and sexism are environmental problems, yet ...
February 3, 2020
Julie Shayne attends the winter Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) meeting
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne traveled to San Diego, CA to participate in the SWS’s annual winter meeting. This year’s theme was “Feminist Futures in the Global South: Research, Activism and Creativity.” Shayne presented a paper about her new research project titled “My Scholarly Return to the Global North: A History of U.S. Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.” In it, Shayne discussed ...
February 3, 2020
Five IAS faculty members receive Royalty Research Funds
Five IAS faculty members have received Royalty Research Fund (RRF) awards over the last year. The RRF is open to faculty across the UW system and provides one-year awards of up to $40,000 that are intended to generate preliminary findings, seed scholarly and creative activities, and increase faculty’s competitiveness for future external funding. The IAS faculty who received RRF awards include ...
February 3, 2020
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali complete artist residency with Shangri La Museum
IAS faculty members Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali recently completed their commissioning residency work at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design. Early in 2019, the museum announced that the two collaborating partners of Studio Revolt would be in resident from Nov 6-17, 2019. During their residency ...
January 30, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk presents at the annual Modern Language Association Conference
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk participated in this year's MLA conference in Seattle in January, where she spoke on the panel "Weird Books" convened by Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania) and Élika Ortega (University of Colorado Boulder). The panel invited scholars and book artists to "think critically about the role of weirdness in studying the material text [and] excavate the history and materiality of a weird book." Borsuk's talk ...
January 30, 2020
Ching-In Chen selected for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been selected to be one of twelve writers for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program by curator Anastacia-Renée. The program features voice and presentation training, in-studio interviews, public readings, a published anthology, and podcasts. ...
January 28, 2020
Natalie Singer reflects on 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
An essay by MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) was published in Crosscut on the 75 anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In her article, “75 years after Auschwitz, a Seattle Jew wonders: Are we traveling backward?,” Singer reflects on the rise of anti-Semitism in America and her experiences as a Jewish woman in Canada and the U.S. Writes Singer ...
January 28, 2020
Maizy Brown: The Power of Belonging
As a first-generation student and single mother experiencing homelessness, Maizy Brown (Environmental Studies ’11) faced many obstacles. However, “the professors at UW Bothell made me feel like I deserved to be there.” Brown now works as a case manager at Edmonds Community College.
January 27, 2020
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits artwork in 4 different countries
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited her artworks in four different countries. Ali is an internationally recognized artist whose works span performance, installation, video, images, public encounters, and political agitation. This past November Ali’s works were on view concurrently at the Jogja National Museum (Indonesia), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (The Netherlands), Gajah Gallery (Singapore) and the Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway). ...
January 24, 2020