News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Alka Kurian Presents at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented "Transnational Strategies of Resistance" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) in Portland, Oregon. This paper discussed women's participation in the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996-2006) with the view to examining the potential emancipatory possibilities it held for them.
February 8, 2016
Becca Price Publishes Suggestions for how to Update Teaching Evolution
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez published “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms.” Based on research conducted at several colleges and universities, the article suggests ...
February 3, 2016
Mira Shimabukuro Publishes Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro published a new book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, with the University of Colorado Press. The book explores the ways Japanese Americans continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II.
February 1, 2016
Georgia Roberts Collaborates on Macklemore’s “White Privilege II”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts was a community collaborator on Macklemore's new song "White Privilege II." The song is a result of an ongoing dialogue among musicians, activists, and teachers.
January 29, 2016
Rob Turner Principal Investigator on Stormwater Management Grant
A group of IAS faculty and students under the leadership of Rob Turner has received a grant from the Green Seed Fund Project to develop best management practices for campus stormwater. The project has been funded at $62,586 and will work to help preserve the North Creek Wetlands by ...
January 27, 2016
IAS Students Featured in Article on North Creek Forest in Bothell
The Bothell Reporter published an article today on the North Creek Forest that features work being done by IAS students in the Restoration Ecology Network (pictured at left are Environmental Studies majors Nicholas Vradenburg and Kai Farmer). Students from all three University of Washington campuses work to restore portions of the forest, providing fieldwork application of classwork as part of the Restoration Ecology Network (REN).
January 21, 2016
Kristy Leissle Contracts with Polity Press for volume on the Global Political Economy of Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle has contracted with Polity Press for a new volume in their exciting Resources series. Leissle's book, Cocoa, will address the global political economy of the cocoa and chocolate industries.
January 14, 2016
Dan Berger Presents at American Historical Association Conference
IAS faculty member Dan Berger presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 8. Berger delivered a paper entitled “Freedom as Method” about the ways prisoners, slaves, and other people in captivity utilize similar modes of political action.
January 14, 2016
Shauna Carlisle Publishes on Racial Bullying and Adolescent Substance Abuse
IAS faculty member Shauna Carlisle published an article co-authored with Nursing and Health Studies faculty member Andrea Stone, “Racial bullying and adolescent substance use: An examination of school-attending young adolescents in the United States,” in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. The study explores ...
January 14, 2016
Ben Gardner and Ron Krabill Receive UW Global Innovation Fund Grant
IAS faculty members Ben Gardner and Ron Krabill received a UW Global Innovation Fund grant to support their upcoming study abroad exploration seminar “Critical perspectives on ecotourism in Tanzania.” The grant will enable Tanzanian students to participate alongside UW students in studying grassroots environmental activism and community conservation in Tanzania.
January 14, 2016