News from the School of IAS
Policy Studies Alumni Share their Career Paths with Students
Four Policy Studies alumni recently met with current Policy Studies students to share their career trajectories and lessons learned along the way. Collectively, they highlighted the value and relevance of their education, which built skills in research and analysis, program administration, critical thinking, advocacy, and collaboration. Alumni included: Mariah Crystal (’10), Jefferson Ketchel (’08), Vy Nguyen (’12), and Josh Thompson (’11).
April 28, 2016
Ben Gardner Presents at Conference on “Elite Discourse” in Bern, Switzerland
IAS faculty member Ben Gardner presented a paper and participated in a round table conference on “Elite Discourse” in Bern, Switzerland co-organized by IAS affiliate faculty member Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. The interdisciplinary round table brought together ...
April 26, 2016
Recent Article by Becca Price Named as “Editor’s Choice” in Science
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez had their recently published article, “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms,” named as an “editor’s choice” in the April 15 issue of Science. The recognition calls ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Present at the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium
Three IAS faculty members presented at 2016 Teaching and Learning Symposium. Ursula Valdez presented “Assessing Group Dynamics and Efficiency of Collaborative Assignments” in collaboration with Jeff Jensen from STEM, and “From Cascades to Andes: A Collaborative Online International Learning Experience”. ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
IAS has hired eleven new faculty members for 2016-17 across fields including arts practice, community psychology, ethnic studies, law & policy, literature, writing & rhetoric. Short bios for each are found below:
April 25, 2016
Namita Paul Exhibits Unyielding at UW Bothell
First year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Namita Paul’s visual art project Unyielding is currently on exhibit at UW Bothell. Unyielding was a set of visual responses to several readings, principally Nella Larson’s “Quicksand” and Fae Myenne Ng’s “Bone,” made over the course of a quarter at the University of Washington Seattle. This piece carries within it ...
April 20, 2016
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett Discuss Public Humanities at Gonzaga University
IAS Director of Graduate Studies Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett visited Gonzaga University to discuss public humanities. Bartha delivered an invited talk on “Projects, Partners, Publics: Designs for an Engaged Humanities,” while Burgett ...
April 14, 2016
Dan Berger Speaks on Black Radicals and the Law and Prison Organizing
Dan Berger participated in a roundtable on "Black Radicals and the Law" at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. During the conference, the OAH announced that Berger was appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program ...
April 12, 2016
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner, Jin-Kyu Jung, Santiago Lopez, and Adam Romero present research at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco
Five IAS faculty members presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, March 29 - April 2. Christian Anderson presented a paper on “performative infrastructure as an urban social force” as part of a session called “outside the wage: spaces, politics, possibilities.” Ben Gardner ...
April 12, 2016
Brad Lakey Selected as Fulbright Finalist
IAS alumnus Brad Lakey (’14, Global Studies) has been selected as a Finalist for a 2016-2017 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Peru. Brad is currently completing the Master’s in Secondary Education and Teaching in the School of Educational Studies at UW Bothell. Brad is ...
April 5, 2016