News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson and Bee Elliot featured in Taking the Heat
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and alum Bee Elliot are featured in a new book called Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. In the book’s opening chapter, author Bonnie Schneider profiles Atkinson’s class on Climate Anxiety and Hope ...
February 15, 2022
Kari Lerum: “Counter-cultured Girlhoods”
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was invited by the Henry Art Gallery to write a response to an exhibition of photographs and paintings (showing Feb. 4, 2022-May 29, 2022) entitled “Double Dare Ya: Burns, Kurland, & Ross-Ho.” As part of ...
February 11, 2022
Julie Shayne at “Gender and Resistance” book salon
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne participated in a book salon at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting (virtual). Titled “Gender and Resistance,” participants in the salon discussed their books related to this theme. Shayne discussed ...
February 7, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali publishes in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is published in the new book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, published by Harper Collins. RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which APIA culture was ...
February 4, 2022
Dan Berger interviewed on Death Panel
IAS faculty member Dan Berger appeared on the Death Panel, a podcast about the political economy of health, to discuss the pandemic in prisons, jails, and detention centers. Death Panel interviewed Berger about his 2020 articles on the ...
February 3, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits The Buddhist Bug series at The Carlos Museum
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is exhibiting The Buddhist Bug series at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta on the campus of Emory University from January 29 - May 15, 2022. Her works are part of a group exhibition titled "And I Must Scream." The installation of the 40 meter saffron-colored garment is...
February 2, 2022
Rebecca Brown’s The Gifts of The Body adapted for theater performance in Japan
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s 1994 novel, The Gifts of The Body, has been adapted for theater and performed at the Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Sapporo, Japan. Brown's novel tells the story of a home-care aid who helps people living with AIDS, and ...
January 14, 2022
Martha Groom reviews capacity development evaluation in biodiversity conservation
IAS faculty member Martha Groom and colleagues published a review of capacity development efforts to enhance biodiversity conservation. Part of a special issue on capacity development - training and supports to conservation practitioners - Groom and colleagues poured through a database of capacity development reports to ...
January 14, 2022
Marth Groom and Dave Stokes: “Using Case Studies to Improve the Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduate Conservation Biology Students”
IAS faculty members Martha Groom and Dave Stokes published an article on effective pedagogies for enhancing critical thinking among students. Groom and Stokes worked with colleagues across the country in a study using case study pedagogies coupled with the use of rubrics and exercises to ...
January 14, 2022
Joe Ferrare publishes article, bringing together scholars of network science
IAS faculty member Joe Ferrare published “Measuring Issue Preferences, Idea Brokerage, and Research-Use in Policy Networks: A Case Study of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network” in the recent book Knowledge Brokers, Networks and the Policymaking Process (Eds. M. Weber & I. Yanovitzky). The article connects to ...
January 12, 2022