News from the School of IAS
Category: Diversity
Ursula Valdez “Slipping Through the Cracks: Racism and the struggle for equity in the field of conservation”
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez was one of 5 panelists who participated in this event as they discussed their experiences as members of the BIPOC community and co-conspirators working in and around the field of conservation. Together, panelists discussed how racism and other issues of social injustice are connected to ...
September 3, 2020
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “Damn Straight, We Persisted”
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne published an article with Ms, Magazine online about her new open-access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. In the article, “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted,’” Shayne explains how ...
August 17, 2020
Julie Shayne publishes open-access book celebrating fifty years of gender, women, and sexuality studies
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne spent her sabbatical editing an open-access book titled Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne, who is currently the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty coordinator, brought together authors from twenty-two institutions, including the University of Ghana and Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia. Authors represent ...
August 13, 2020
Melanie Malone receives grant for homeless STEM learning project
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and research colleagues from universities across the U.S. were awarded a National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) grant. The project, entitled "RESTING SAFE: Collaborative Informal STEM Learning Between Researchers and Homeless Communities", is centered on mitigating homeless ...
August 7, 2020
Dan Berger interviewed about decarceration in the time of COVID
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was interviewed on KUOW's The Record (scroll down on the page to hear just Berger's segment) about decarceration in the time of COVID. Berger discussed the threat that prisons and jails, which account for more than three-quarters of outbreak clusters, pose in a pandemic. He also highlighted similar issues in ...
August 6, 2020
Gabrielle Fox publishes article about the myth of “The American Meritocracy”
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) alum Gabrielle Fox (’19) put her degree to work in a research article “Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps: An American Mythology,” published in the UW Bothell student journal The Crow (2020 edition). The article systematically debunks the idea that level of effort is equivalent to level of success in the United States. Those who struggle ...
July 30, 2020
Elisabeth Schnebele publishes article about toxic masculinity and mass shootings
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) student Elisabeth Schnebele published an article, "Men and Masculinities: A Case Study of Mass Shootings in the United States," in the UW Bothell student journal The Crow (2020 edition). The article is a case study analysis of three mass shootings and explores the potential connection between mass shootings and the values imposed by hegemonic masculinity. Since ...
July 27, 2020
Raissa DeSmet collaborates on Southeast Asia authoritarianism project funded at $1,000,000
IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet is collaborating with faculty colleagues from the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center (SEAC) on a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Southeast Asia initiative for a project titled, "Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy." Along with DeSmett, faculty who developed the project are ...
July 23, 2020
Yolanda Padilla publishes “Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published "Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms" in Writing / Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. In her chapter, Padilla reflects on how U.S. literary studies' neglect of recovered Latinx texts results in a lost opportunity for important field transformation. She ...
July 20, 2020
Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Washington state, IAS faculty member Dan Berger thought immediately of prisons. As co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, Berger joined a chorus of activists and scholars calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to release many of the 19,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails. Read his interview in University of Washington Magazine.
June 30, 2020