News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on books and bodies
As an outgrowth of her research into the book as object, content, idea, and interface, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has developed an interest in the relationship between books and bodies, historically and in the present moment. Not only is she interested in how books accommodate to our bodies and we to theirs, as examined in The Book (MIT Press, 2018), her recent research considers books that incorporate the human body into their material form, from ...
August 18, 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
Melanie Malone wins two UW research grants
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won two UW research grants this month. The first grant, an Urban@UW Research Spark grant, was awarded to Melanie and other UW Seattle and Tacoma faculty and a Duwamish Tribal member. The grant is intended to support a co-created adaptive citizen science network that will ...
August 13, 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
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book translated into Spanish
Last month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's volume The Book (MIT Press, 2018) was published in Spanish. El Libro Expandido, translated by Lucila Cordone, was Issued by Ediciones Ampersand of Buenos Aires, which specializes in books on books and visual culture. Part of the series Comunicación & Lenguajes, it joins volumes on transmedia reading and hybrid web discourse...
August 10, 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
Min Tang on the Networked Digital Power and Information Geopolitics
IAS faculty member Min Tang presented at the 2020 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference. This year's theme was "Reimagining the Digital Future: Building inclusiveness, respect and reciprocity." Tang’s video presentation on “The Networked Digital Power: Capital Connections in Global ICT and Geopolitical Implications" ...
July 28, 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