News from the School of IAS
S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy”
IAS faculty members S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy” in Berlin, Germany. Drawing on the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, they...
September 19, 2017
Shannon Cram presents her work on nuclear politics and policy
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented a paper about her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Life and the Politics of Impossibility, at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in Chicago in April.
September 19, 2017
Julie Shayne, GWSS faculty coordinator, blogs about emotional labor in academe
Julie Shayne wrote her second blog piece for Conditionally Accepted about the invisible emotional labor many faculty take on in their capacity as professors and mentors. In it she argues that...
September 18, 2017
Cruz Garibay wins Fulbright award
Cruz Garibay is the fifth recipient of a Fulbright award from UW Bothell. Garibay graduated in 2016 with a double major in Health Studies and Law, Economics & Public Policy, with a minor in Human Rights. The award will fund Garibay to spend nine months working as an English teaching assistant at a public university teacher’s college in Brazil.
September 12, 2017
Carrie Bodle selected for exhibition at the NY Hall of Science
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle exhibits two works from her Waveforms and Wavelines series at the New York Hall of Science as part of the Science Inspires Art: OCEAN exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations (ASCI) and co-juried by Diana Moore, D&R Greenway Art Galleries, and John Stegeman, Senior Scientist & Director at the Center of Ocean and Human Health at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The exhibition presents ...
September 12, 2017
David Doyle reflects on his transition from Microsoft to public service
In September 2016, David Doyle (’15, Policy Studies) began a new venture as City of Seattle’s Open Data Program Manager. The Open Data Program makes the data generated by the City of Seattle openly available to the public, enabling those outside of government to find solutions to our most pressing civic challenges. The Master of Arts in Policy Studies program was pivotal in David’s transition from 18 years at Microsoft to the public sector. “Once ...
September 12, 2017
Adam Romero co-edits newly published Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
IAS faculty member Adam Romero, in collaboration with S. Ravi Rajan and Michael Watts, is co-editor of Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken, recently released by The University of Virginia Press. In 1967, Clarence Glacken published Traces on the Rhodian Shore, considered one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. This volume collects previously unpublished works written by Glacken following the publication of Traces.
September 11, 2017
Amy Lambert’s work on the island marble butterfly featured on KCTS9
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert’s work on preserving and studying the island marble butterfly is featured in “A Climate Rescue Mission for Puget Sound’s Rare Butterfly” on the KCTS9 site. The article notes: “The island marble is considered one of the rarest butterflies in North America, only found in a small section of this island’s small national historic park.” Lambert is quoted in the article:
September 1, 2017
Kristin Gustafson co-moderates panel: “Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-moderated a teaching panel, "Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s," at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August with Susan Keith. The panel brought together efforts of the association's History Division and Newspaper and Online News Division. Gustafson and Keith said they organized the panel because too often the narratives of journalism and media history are the stories of people who had power in society and took what were considered to be relatively mainstream positions. The panelists shared ...
August 29, 2017
Recent graduate Hanan Osman finds career in environmental health and safety
In high school Hanan Osman (’17, Environmental Studies) set her sights on an environmental career when she initiated a campaign to reduce water consumption at her local mosque. At UW Bothell, she stayed true to this path and pursued student employment as a way of supporting and immersing herself in campus life. For three years, Hanan worked as a peer study abroad advisor, providing students assistance around study abroad opportunities and scholarships. She also became involved in several clubs, such as Black Student Union and Muslim Student Association, and in her senior year, she and several peers established a National Society of Black Engineers chapter at UW Bothell. ...
August 25, 2017