News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
IAS has hired eleven new faculty members for 2016-17 across fields including arts practice, community psychology, ethnic studies, law & policy, literature, writing & rhetoric. Short bios for each are found below:
April 25, 2016
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett Discuss Public Humanities at Gonzaga University
IAS Director of Graduate Studies Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett visited Gonzaga University to discuss public humanities. Bartha delivered an invited talk on “Projects, Partners, Publics: Designs for an Engaged Humanities,” while Burgett ...
April 14, 2016
Dan Berger Speaks on Black Radicals and the Law and Prison Organizing
Dan Berger participated in a roundtable on "Black Radicals and the Law" at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. During the conference, the OAH announced that Berger was appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program ...
April 12, 2016
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner, Jin-Kyu Jung, Santiago Lopez, and Adam Romero present research at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco
Five IAS faculty members presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, March 29 - April 2. Christian Anderson presented a paper on “performative infrastructure as an urban social force” as part of a session called “outside the wage: spaces, politics, possibilities.” Ben Gardner ...
April 12, 2016
Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on “Making Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion” at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology conference. Shayne's contribution to the session was “University Presses and Activist Scholarship/Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas.” Jade Power-Sotomayor presented ...
April 4, 2016
Alice Pedersen Convenes Seminar on “Other Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context”
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen convened a seminar on “Other Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context” at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Cambridge, MA. Her contribution to the seminar ...
March 31, 2016
Kari Lerum Co-Edits Special Section of Articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is co-editor of a special section of articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking in the journal Sociological Perspectives. The section includes ...
March 28, 2016
Jason Lambacher Publishes in the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher published a chapter in the inaugural Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory titled, "Freedom." The article focuses on a critical account of the status of "freedom" in environmental politics and thought.
March 24, 2016
Carrie Bodle and Amaranth Borsuk Receive Juried Award for their Collaborative Installation Wave Signs
IAS faculty members Carrie Bodle and Amaranth Borsuk have received the $10,000 grand prize in the juried exhibition Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon for their collaborative installation Wave Signs. Giant Steps challenged artists to imagine what they could create if they had 48 hours on the lunar surface with one accompanying astronaut to assist them.
March 9, 2016
Kari Lerum and Julie Shayne Speak on International Women’s Day Panel
UW Bothell’s Student Engagement and Activities organized an International Women’s Day event to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women around the world.” IAS faculty members Kari Lerum and Julie Shayne were invited to speak about their own activism and scholarship regarding women and feminism. They led a lively exchange about ...
March 9, 2016