News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jin-Kyu Jung presents research on the limits of crowdfunding data
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung co-presented an ongoing collaborative work with Nora Kenworthy at School of Nursing and Health Studies at the 2021 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting. Their paper, "Knowing through undoing: Creative, collaborative, and disruptive strategies for remaking and unmapping public knowledge about crowdfunding platforms," ...
October 15, 2021
Bruce Burgett presents on “Creating Critical Field Formations”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett presented as part of a roundtable on “Creating Critical Field Formations: Keywords for African American Studies, American Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies” at the 2021 American Studies Association conference. He was joined by ...
October 13, 2021
Ching-In Chen published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum/a birthright” was published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Temple University Press. This hybrid writing was originally published in recombinant ...
October 13, 2021
Karam Dana speaks at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated recently in the annual banquet of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization. Dana was one of the scholars invited to discuss ...
October 7, 2021
Dan Berger speaks on “Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a virtual talk at Wellesley College. Berger's talk, "Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History," was the inaugural event of a ...
October 6, 2021
Karam Dana on public opinion in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave two lectures showcasing some of his research findings this month. The first was titled “Palestinian Public Opinion: The Role of the US, and the Making of Future Policy” and was part of the Diplomacy Roundtable organized by the Seattle Rotary Club. The second ...
September 29, 2021
David Stokes: Saving all the pieces
IAS faculty member David Stokes and others published Saving all the pieces: an inadequate conservation strategy for an endangered amphibian in an urbanizing area in the journal Biological Conservation. The paper reports on the results of a long-term (19 year) study of the federally endangered Sonoma population of the California tiger salamander in the rapidly urbanizing ...
September 28, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: Before Amazon
IAS faculty member and dean Brinda Sarathy recently published an article examining the “pre-history” of warehouses and logistics in inland Southern California prior to the birth of Amazon. Sarathy’s work traces the production of the Inland Empire’s logistics industry to the development of military installations, differentially incarcerated ...
September 27, 2021
Colin Danby publishes two articles on the history of political economy
IAS faculty member Colin Danby has published two new articles on development economics. The first is a biographical article on the Mexican economist Juan Noyola (1922-1962) for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ...
September 24, 2021
Bruce Burgett edits a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited (with Glenn Hendler, Fordham University) a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory.” Keywords Now is an extension of Burgett and Hendler’s co-edited Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. It is designed to explore ongoing shifts in the meanings of key terms that shape research, teaching, and thinking about complex social and cultural issues. The current cluster responds to right-wing attacks ...
September 24, 2021