News from the School of IAS
Karam Dana Speaks on American Muslim Political Behavior and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
IAS faculty member and Director of the American Muslims Research Institute, Karam Dana has just returned from the Boston area where he delivered two talks at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on the Palestinian nationalist narrative and on American Muslim political behavior.
February 10, 2016
Julie Shayne Leads Mock Classroom for Native American High School Students
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne lead a mock classroom for Native American high school students as part of the Reaching American Indian Nations (RAIN) recruitment event. Shayne did an abridged version of a lesson from her course “Place and Displacement in the Americas” that she co-teaches with IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson. She chose an interactive lesson about ...
February 8, 2016
Alka Kurian Presents at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented "Transnational Strategies of Resistance" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) in Portland, Oregon. This paper discussed women's participation in the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996-2006) with the view to examining the potential emancipatory possibilities it held for them.
February 8, 2016
Alia Marsha Publishes on the “Sidekicking” of Minorities in Journalism
IAS student Alia Marsha’s article, “Why Seattle Times’ “sidekicking” Hollis Wong-Wear is bad for journalism,” appeared yesterday on the Seattle Globalist site. Alia is a senior in Media and Communication Studies, and is editor-in-chief of the Husky Herald, UW Bothell’s student paper. In her article, Alia addresses ...
February 5, 2016
Becca Price Publishes Suggestions for how to Update Teaching Evolution
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez published “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms.” Based on research conducted at several colleges and universities, the article suggests ...
February 3, 2016
Mira Shimabukuro Publishes Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro published a new book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, with the University of Colorado Press. The book explores the ways Japanese Americans continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II.
February 1, 2016
Georgia Roberts Collaborates on Macklemore’s “White Privilege II”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts was a community collaborator on Macklemore's new song "White Privilege II." The song is a result of an ongoing dialogue among musicians, activists, and teachers.
January 29, 2016
Jennifer Gess Defends her Dissertation on Queering Counselor Education
Jennifer Gess (’07) is a PhD Candidate in Counselor Education and Counseling at Idaho State University and recently defended her dissertation: Queering Counselor Education: Situational Analysis of LGBTQ+ Competent Faculty. After completing her BA in Community Psychology at UW Bothell, Jennifer ...
January 28, 2016
Rob Turner Principal Investigator on Stormwater Management Grant
A group of IAS faculty and students under the leadership of Rob Turner has received a grant from the Green Seed Fund Project to develop best management practices for campus stormwater. The project has been funded at $62,586 and will work to help preserve the North Creek Wetlands by ...
January 27, 2016
Three IAS Students are Awarded Prestigious Mary Gates Research Scholarships
Kelsey Bolinger is a senior majoring in Society, Ethics and Human Behavior and Media and Communication Studies. Her project is titled “Representation of Race and Gender in PEOPLE Magazine.” Kelsey is working under the mentorship of IAS faculty member Julie Shayne. Bonnie Johnson is a senior in Community Psychology and her project is titled ...
January 26, 2016