News from the School of IAS
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
Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on “Making Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion” at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology conference. Shayne's contribution to the session was “University Presses and Activist Scholarship/Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas.” Jade Power-Sotomayor presented ...
April 4, 2016
Alice Pedersen Convenes Seminar on “Other Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context”
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen convened a seminar on “Other Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context” at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Cambridge, MA. Her contribution to the seminar ...
March 31, 2016
David Stokes Promoted to Full Professor
IAS faculty member David Stokes has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Stokes came to IAS in 2006 as an Associate Professor from a tenured position at Sonoma State University. Stokes teaches ...
March 28, 2016
Janelle Silva Wins UW 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award for UW Bothell
IAS faculty member Janelle Silva has won the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award for UW Bothell. Only one faculty member from UW Bothell is selected each year, based on a rigorous review of nominations. Janelle’s colleagues and students supported her nomination on the basis of her strong commitment to community engagement as both a goal and method of instruction.
March 28, 2016
Kari Lerum Co-Edits Special Section of Articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is co-editor of a special section of articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking in the journal Sociological Perspectives. The section includes ...
March 28, 2016
Jason Lambacher Publishes in the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher published a chapter in the inaugural Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory titled, "Freedom." The article focuses on a critical account of the status of "freedom" in environmental politics and thought.
March 24, 2016