News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen awarded Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Fellowship
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded the Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Residency Fellowship for Service to the Community from The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), which awards a one-week fully-funded residency at Firefly Farms in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fellowship awards a writer who has ...
October 26, 2021
Adam Romero publishes new book, Economic Poisoning
IAS faculty member Adam Romero's new monograph, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, is being released by University of California Press, as part of the Critical Environments Series. From the publisher's site:
October 26, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson speaks about the emotional toll of climate disruption
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke about the emotional toll of climate disruption at New Mexico State University as part of their Climate Change Education Seminar Series on October 20. She also discussed the topic in an interview with KTAL Radio in Las Cruces, NM, highlighting recent research on the psychological distress youth and children experience in the face of government inaction on our climate crisis. The study ...
October 26, 2021
Shannon Cram presents “Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility”
On October 13th, IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented "Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility" at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This talk explored the entangled challenges of waste, illness, and remediation at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to the majority of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and ...
October 22, 2021
Charlie Collins publishes: “Subverting Whiteness: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Anti-Racist Praxis”
IAS faculty member Charlie Collins published "Subverting Whiteness: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Anti-Racist Praxis" was just published in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Pracitce for the special issue on anti-racist and decolonizing praxes. Collins, along with co-author Erin Watson, argues ...
October 22, 2021
Ching-In Chen published in NOMBONO
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Flood Fathers” and “Guest/Stalker” was published in NOMBONO: an Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators From Around the World, edited by Akua Lezli Hope, from Sundress Publications. “In the stunning and imaginative NOMBONO ...
October 20, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung: “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a report, “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present,” with Dr. Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr. and Evan Dash at the University of Buffalo Center for Urban Studies. The study aimed to determine how the City’s emerging post-industrial or knowledge economy impacted African Americans, and sought to determine if the Black socioeconomic trajectory is ...
October 18, 2021
IAS Dean Brinda Sarathy cares for our community
For Brinda Sarathy, becoming the new dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell felt like a calling. When she saw the open position, she was struck by the school’s goal to create lasting partnerships “that are socially-just and committed to finding environmentally-sustainable options for the development of ...
October 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “In Seattle city attorney race, beware of ‘rising crime’ alarmism”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Crosscut on the Seattle city attorney race. Berger discussed the race between abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Republican Ann Davison in the context of progressive prosecutors in other cities around the country.
October 18, 2021
Julie Shayne presents at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference
In honor of her new book, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session titled “50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Book.” On the (zoom) panel, she presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS.”
October 15, 2021