News from the School of IAS
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed for WYBC Yale University Radio
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk recently spoke with artist and educator Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio. She read new poems and discussed motherhood, the pandemic, and the importance of performance to her practice. Carey interviews ...
December 16, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poetics in Periodicities Journal
To accompany their new chapbook, W/\SH: Initial Contact from Above/Ground Press, Amaranth Borsuk and Terri Witek have published "To the Rider: A Double-Tongued Response" in webjournal Periodicities. This poetics statement includes process media and documentation of their collaboration W/\SH ...
December 16, 2021
Maryam Griffin publishes Vehicles of Decolonization
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has published a new book, Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, as part of Temple University Press's Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series.
December 15, 2021
Ron Krabill: Human Rights Public Culture
In IAS faculty member Ron Krabill's course, Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture, students gain the knowledge needed to intervene in human rights violations. “We often think that no one is against human rights, but someone is. Otherwise, they wouldn’t continue to be violated,” notes Krabill. “This course is about identifying the stakeholders who benefit from the perpetuated harm and figuring out how to use media to intervene.”
December 14, 2021
Karam Dana moderates December Husky Highlights Seminar Series
IAS faculty member Karam Dana served as the moderator for the December Husky Highlights Seminar Series, a lecture series designed and planned by the Office of Sponsored Research and is hosted monthly to highlight the innovative research conducted by ...
December 13, 2021
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits The Red Chador series in 3 countries
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali concurrently exhibited artworks from The Red Chador series in three different countries. The series continues Ali’s interest in using religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness. Ali is an internationally recognized artist whose works span performance, installation, video, images, public encounters, and political agitation. This past November ...
December 9, 2021
Kristin Gustafson published in Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
The newly published Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America includes IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson’s chapter, “Death of Democracy, North Carolina.” The chapter provides a case study with parallels of two newspapers and the men leading them. ...
December 8, 2021
Becca Price: Chronicling SABER’s efforts to become antiracist
A new publication by a team of people led by Miriam Segura-Totten (University of North Georgia) and Samiksha Raut (The University of Alabama at Birmingham) and including IAS faculty member Becca Price, describes how the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) has challenged itself to become antiracist. ...
December 7, 2021
Kari Lerum publishes on death rituals in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently published an article in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy about her class, “Death Rituals” (previously featured as a UW Bothell news story). The article, “Teaching death rituals during states of emergency: Centering death positivity, anti-racism, grief, & ritual,” provides an overview of ...
December 6, 2021
Maisha Manson is the new program manager for UW Bothell Diversity Center!
M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Maisha Manson (they, them, theirs) was recently hired as program manager at UW Bothell’s Student Diversity Center and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through a national search. Maisha will support the Diversity Center and UW Bothell student community through advocacy, care, and ...
December 2, 2021