News from the School of IAS
Frances Lee accepts 2017-18 PAGE Fellowship
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Frances Lee has been awarded a fellowship with the 2017-18 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows cohort. PAGE is Imagining America’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. Fellows participate in ...
July 18, 2017
Charlie Collins publishes “Reflections on Neighborhoods and Collective Efficacy”
IAS faculty member Charlie Collins published a blog post, “Reflections on Neighborhoods and Collective Efficacy,” in the Journal of Urban Affairs. The post comments on an earlier article he published in the same journal, “Transforming social cohesion into informal social control: Deconstructing collective efficacy and the moderating role of neighborhood racial homogeneity,” linking that research to ...
July 6, 2017
Alice Pedersen presents at the British Women Writers Conference
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen attended the British Women Writers Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she gave a talk entitled "What Tangled Skeins: Ann Radcliffe, Harriet Jacobs, and Genealogies of Feminist Writing," which explored the similarities between the British, 18th-century novelist Ann Radcliffe's scenes of maternal incarceration with ...
July 5, 2017
Markus Smith featured in Microsoft Office 365 commercial
Recent alum Markus Smith (’17, Community Psychology, Media & Communication Studies) has been featured in a promotional video for Office 365, where he describes...
July 5, 2017
IAS faculty and students speak at Allied Media Conference in Detroit
IAS faculty member Scott Kurashige will speak in the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Allied Media Conference. Kurashige, author of The Fifty Year Rebellion, will ground the work of AMC in the context of Detroit as an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity.
June 21, 2017
Brittaney Bunjong recognized as “Cook 2 Follow” in AllRecipes Magazine
Congratulations to alum Brittaney Bunjong (’16, Media & Communication Studies), on being featured as a “Cook 2 Follow” in the Summer edition of Allrecipes Magazine. Brittaney says, “"It's crazy, when I go to the grocery store I can pick up the Allrecipes Magazine and see MY face sharing what I love. Finding your passion is the root to success. When you do what you love, doors will open. I'm a strong believer in going to your highest potential." Brittaney also appears on Allrecipes website, the world’s largest online food community with up to 55 million cook visits per month.
June 21, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk is featured in UW 360 segment on modern poetry and publishes new work
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was featured this spring in a Columns article on the state of poetry at UW. The piece, written by IAS alum Quinn Russell Brown, sparked the interest of producers at UW360, who interviewed her about the role of technology and collaboration in her work. Borsuk's digitally-mediated projects include Abra, a free app for iPhone and iPad that invites readers to mutate text with their fingertips, Whispering Galleries, a LeapMotion work which uses the reader's hand gestures to reveal poems hidden within diary entries, and Between Page and Screen, a book of augmented reality poems that only exist in the virtual space opened up by the reader. ...
June 20, 2017
Malak Shalabi wins Library Research Award for Undergraduates
Law, Economics & Public Policy (LEPP) major Malak Shalabi was one of the winners of this year’s Library Research Award for Undergraduates. This tri-campus contest is designed to reward students who create research projects with “unusual depth or broadness in the use of library resources and collections.” Advised by IAS faculty member Bruce Kochis ...
June 20, 2017
Interdisciplinary Arts major Lingling Yuan receives President’s Medal
Lingling Yuan received the President’s Medal at the 2017 University of Washington Commencement on June 13. This award recognizes the graduating senior with the most distinguished academic record. Yuan, originally from Xiamen, China, graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Arts. Despite her academic achievement, Yuan’s focus was on learning to express herself through art, rather than focus on grades. Yuan hopes to enter the K-8 certification program at UW Bothell and become a teacher. “I feel early education is really important,” she said. “That’s why I hope to work with kids.” Learn more about Yuan’s story in the video below, and hear from two of her professors, Kevin Kim and Ted Hiebert:
June 15, 2017
After the MFA: Catching up with Colin McArthur
By Kaitlin C. Young ('16) Shortly after he received his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, I ran into Colin (’15) at a reading at Folio, a private library in downtown Seattle. I remembered hearing him read pieces of his thesis—a beautifully written and ambitious start to a novel— at the MFA Salons. Around the same time Colin was reading at those salons, Seattle City of Literature was in the news for two reasons.
June 13, 2017