Alums Houston, Johnson, and Tsoodle nurture links between community and students

IAS alums Mary Houston, Gretchen Johnson, and Alice Tsoodle are highlighted for their community leadership in the latest issue of UW Bothell Magazine. Pivotal learning moments catalyzed their careers, and each remains deeply engaged with UW Bothell as co-educators. Houston (’08, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior; ’10, Policy Studies) credits an internship with Workforce Snohomish, later her employer, as integral to her learning and professional path....

January 12, 2018

Ted Hiebert published Naturally Postnatural: Catalyst: Jennifer Willet

IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published Naturally Postnatural: Catalyst: Jennifer Willet (Noxious Sector Press, 2017), an edited collection of writings by prominent artists and scientists in the field of bioart, inspired by the work of artist and educator Jennifer Willet. With contributions by...

January 11, 2018

Raissa DeSmet teaches “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora” at the Burke Museum

IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet worked with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture as part of her fall course on “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora.” Students work with staff members at the Burke as they catalogued a collection of more than 50,000 objects embodying various traditions and cultures through time. As part of an ongoing project called “Decolonizing Collections” ...

January 5, 2018

IAS students publish in local community newspapers

Two IAS students, Hannah Horiatis and Nektaryos Xenos, were published in local community newspapers with work first created in Kristin Gustafson’s Introduction to Journalism autumn course. The Bothell-Kenmore Reporter published Horiatis’ “Rent and home prices are rising in downtown Bothell” and Xenos’ “Downtown Bothell project delayed” in December. Students in the community-based-learning-and-research course are assigned to research, visit, blog about, and then write a news article for one of several ...

January 3, 2018

Shannon Cram receives fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center where she will be a Writer in Residence for two weeks in January. The focus of Cram's residency will be her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which explores the complex politics of remediation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to more than two-thirds of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and the largest environmental cleanup in human history, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that ...

January 3, 2018

Lauren Berliner’s research cited in Mother Jones and the Financial Times

IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner’s collaborative research with Nora Kenworthy was cited in the cover story of the most recent edition of Mother Jones magazine. The feature, entitled “Go Fund Yourself: Begging for health care in the new safety net,” draws on Berliner and Kenworthy’s finding that online marketing skills correlate with income, thus reproducing social inequality in social media fundraising environments. Berliner and Kenworthy’s original research ...

January 2, 2018

Zarefah Baroud – “United States and Israel: Re-evaluating a Toxic Relationship”

Recently both teleSUR and CounterPunch published “United States and Israel: Re-evaluating a Toxic Relationship”, an op-ed by IAS student Zarefah Baroud. Baroud, who is a junior in Media & Communication Studies with a minor in Human Rights, has published previously on CounterPunch, while this is the first time her work has been picked up by teleSUR. The article explores movements for Palestinian liberation, movements for Black lives and police accountability, and movements actively working against destructive immigration policy ...

January 2, 2018