News from the School of IAS
Yolanda Padilla, micha cárdenas, and Janelle Silva to be recognized at Latinx Faculty Recognition Event
IAS faculty members Yolanda Padilla, micha cárdenas, and Janelle Silva have been selected by the UW Latino Center for Health to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event. The annual event honors the scholarly achievements of Latina and Latino faculty across the tri-campuses of the University of Washington. Criteria for recognition include ...
May 2, 2018
Malak Shalabi brings Syrian voices to the West
IAS alum Malak Shalabi (’18, Law, Economics & Public Policy) is featured on the University of Washington homepage today. The article, “Speaking Words of Justice,” looks at Shalabi’s work on sectarian violence in Syria and the voices of Syrian people in the United States. This work started as part of Shalabi’s undergraduate research with IAS faculty member Bruce Kochis, for which she won a Library Research Award.
May 1, 2018
Karam Dana speaks on public opinion in Palestine at McMenamins Anderson School
IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a public lecture at McMenamins Anderson School in downtown Bothell. His talk was titled: ”Palestine and Palestinians: Exploring Public Opinion Two Decades After the Oslo Accords.” Dana was introduced by IAS Dean Bruce Burgett as part of a partnership between UW Bothell and McMenamins History Department, where ...
April 30, 2018
Maryam Griffin: “Of Boxes and Pen: Forged and Forging Categories at a Wartime U.S. University”
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published a book chapter, “Of Boxes and Pen: Forged and Forging Categories at a Wartime U.S. University,” in the edited volume Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America’s Public Schools. Griffin’s chapter is based on research conducted with undergraduate student organizers at UCLA. It explores the complex and deeply global ways that students of Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) descent worked to ...
April 27, 2018
New veterans center coming to UW Bothell
Chancellor Wolf Yeigh announced that a new veterans resource center will open on campus in fall 2018. A task force of students, faculty, staff and alumni recommended creation of a center to enhance veterans’ educational experience, and MA in Policy Studies student and IAS alum Ben Studley (’16), was critical to the process. Studley is a Navy veteran and ...
April 26, 2018
Carrie Lanza presents at the European Conference on Social Work Research in Edinburgh, Scotland
IAS faculty member Carrie Lanza presented twice at the European Conference on Social Work Research in Edinburgh, Scotland. She co-facilitated a workshop entitled Teaching Social Work History as Critical Pedagogy with several UW School of Social Work colleagues. She also presented a paper on ...
April 25, 2018
Kyra Laughlin to partner with Advocates for Youth and Trojan in #AskForIt campaign
IAS alumn and Sexual Assault & Violence Education (S.A.V.E.) president Kyra Laughlin was selected as one of a hundred student activists to partner with Advocates for Youth and Trojan in their #AskForIt campaign. The campaign seeks to normalize conversation about consent on college campuses and promote safe sex. As part of her work, Laughlin developed a survey for students, faculty, and staff to show support for ...
April 25, 2018
Megan Dunn advocates for pesticide alternatives and district elections
Megan Dunn (’13, Policy Studies) is Program Director for Healthier People and Communities with Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides where she leads efforts to advocate and educate for pesticide alternatives within Washington schools, public spaces, and low income housing. For example, Dunn has worked with Northshore School District to adopt an Integrated Pest Management policy that protects children, staff, and families from exposure to pesticides by stopping harmful pesticide approaches and advancing ecologically sound alternatives. Dunn has enjoyed partnering with UW Bothell Grounds Supervisor, Tyson Kemper, on this initiative. ...
April 24, 2018
IAS faculty members keynote and present at the UW Center for Teaching and Learning symposium
Ben Gardner provided a keynote talk, “Global Studies Pedagogy: Relational teaching, relational thinking,” as part of this year’s emphasis on “Teaching in Global Classrooms.” Alice Pedersen presented on "The Politics & Practices of Yoga: Mindfulness in the First-Year Classroom," focusing on outcomes from her use of meditation and yoga in her UW Bothell Discovery Core1/BWRIT 134 linked course. Min Tang presented her instructional practices in critical media literacy classes where she integrates global citizenship education in the curriculum and foregrounds an awareness for global communities as an essential aspect to media morality. Becca Price ...
April 24, 2018
Jed Murr publishes exhibition essay for “Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler”
IAS faculty member Jed Murr published an exhibition essay for Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler at the Hedreen Gallery (Seattle University). The publication, released as a pocket-sized book in conjunction with a public event featuring Crumpler and guest curator Sampada Aranke (Chicago Art Institute) on April 12, explores the ways in which Crumpler's work engages contemporary ecological catastrophe and ...
April 23, 2018