News from the School of IAS
Hugo House Interviews Ching-In Chen
Hugo House published an interview with IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and co-reader Kenji C Liu about their Spotlight Poetry reading at Hugo House in Seattle on Thursday, September 26, 2019 as well as their paths to poetry and recent books. Spotlight readings feature ...
September 26, 2019
Julie Shayne delivers keynote speech at this year’s convocation ceremony
UW Bothell tradition dictates that the previous year’s winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award delivers the keynote speech at convocation to welcome the incoming students. This year’s speaker was IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator Julie Shayne. The main message of Shayne’s speech (see video below) ...
September 24, 2019
Alka Kurian Launches Podcast on South Asian Writers and Filmmakers
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian has launched a new podcast where she investigates how South Asian writers and filmmakers explore some of the major issues of the world and help us make sense of our reality. In her very first episode, she interviewed the award-winning author ...
September 23, 2019
Barbara Noah’s “Toss and Turn” featured in Seattle Times
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah created a significant body of work, "Toss and Turn,” exhibited at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, September 5-28. The work contemplates climate change, transcendence, joy, our place in the universe, and the hunt for home. It was featured in the Seattle Times in a September 18 online article ...
September 23, 2019
Lauren Berliner: “When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner published "When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media" in the edited volume Writing About Screen Media. Berliner's contribution draws on her experience researching and writing Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment, providing advice for ...
September 20, 2019
Melanie Malone publishes article on failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article in Progress in Physical Geography. "A physical and social analysis of how variations in no-till conservation practices lead to inaccurate sediment runoff estimations in agricultural watersheds" examines the social and physical complexities behind failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques. The article emphasizes the need to ...
September 19, 2019
Kristin Gustafson moderates “Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson moderated a teaching panel, “Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History,” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference held in Toronto in August. The panel featured the five teaching-contest winners for the AEJMC History Division. ...
September 16, 2019
“How We Respond” – climate change adaptation site goes live
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer is a Project Advisor for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) project on Climate Change Adaptation. In that role, she advised the AAAS project on developing objectives and acted as review editor of case studies that demonstrate how science informs communities on the effects of climate change, and how they can lessen the impacts now. Housed in the AAAS’s Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, the “How We Respond” project ...
September 16, 2019
Michele Orr advances gender equity in the outdoors
IAS Alum Michele Orr (’94) is REI’s general merchandizing manager for apparel, and one of her most exciting projects is championing their Force of Nature campaign, a public effort to advance gender equity in the outdoors. Orr and her team are working within the co-op and with brand partners to level the playing field by offering more sizing options for more women. As a co-op, REI is in the unique position of harnessing member feedback to influence brands and expedite change. For example, in 2018, REI doubled its sales of apparel in extended sizes, and in 2019, increased clothing choices for core activities like hiking, swimming, running and yoga by ...
September 13, 2019
Jayne Swift earns Ph.D. in Feminist Studies
Jayne Swift (’10), a member of the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies’ inaugural cohort, graduated with her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies in August 2019. Swift’s dissertation, Lusty Ladies: Sex Work and Sex-Positive Politics, 1970-2013, analyzes the history and politics of sex-positivity through a cultural history of sex ...
September 10, 2019