News from the School of IAS
“An interview with Kari Lerum” published in Sex Matters: The Sexuality & Society Reader
An interview with IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is featured in the 2019 edition of Sex Matters: The Sexuality & Society Reader. The edited volume spotlights 10 leading researchers in the field of sexuality studies. Lerum is interviewed on her research trajectory and philosophy regarding commercial sex.
January 15, 2019
Book chapter by Toft published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!”
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft has published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!” in the edited volume, “Doing Politics. Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse” published by John Benjamins in 2018. The book brings together selected articles from a 2017 conference on “Political Discourse” in the UK. In the chapter, Toft presents a ...
January 15, 2019
Community Radio Journalism students offer free workshops at area LPFM stations
Students in BISMCS 343D Community Radio Journalism were excited to facilitate two workshops on public affairs programming in November 2018. The first workshop was held at SPACE 101.1 FM KMPG-LP at Magnuson Park, on Saturday Nov 17th from 9am-12pm, where participants learned how to record and edit a Vox Pop. The second workshop was held at 96.9 FM KODX-LP in the University District, on Thursday Nov 29th from 6-9pm, where they ...
January 15, 2019
Brannan Widdis has feature about KBFG aired on KBCS
IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. The news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...
January 15, 2019
Toft awarded top paper for “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!”
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft presented two papers at the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, one of which – “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!” – received the Top Paper award in the Communication as Social Construction division. Building on earlier exploratory research on the Civil Rights movement as narrative bridge, the paper argues ...
January 15, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk reviews Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk reviews Nguyen's first book of poems, Ghost Of, in Lana Turner 11. Combining lyric reflections and visual poetry in invented forms, Nguyen's book explores the after-effects of her brother's suicide, which was preceded by his careful excision of himself from family photos in her parents' home. The gaps left behind become frames or nets in which Nguyen's language is caught as she tries to reconstruct her missing sibling. Borsuk writes:
January 14, 2019
Melanie Malone publishes an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment. The article considers the relation between no-till agriculture and herbicide use. It deploys multiple methods – spatial analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery of vegetation health along streams; use of a drone fitted with an agricultural camera to detect vegetation health; and soil, sediment, and water sampling for the most commonly used herbicides in the study area – to show where stream vegetation health continues to ...
January 2, 2019
Dan Berger publishes introduction to new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. The University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...
January 2, 2019
Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority reviewed
In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...
January 2, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson: ‘Climate grief’: The growing emotional toll of climate change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured in an article on climate grief on NBC News. The article, "'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change," cites Atkinson’s seminar as one of the few nationally to take up this important issue.
January 2, 2019