News from the School of IAS
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
Two of Ching-In Chen’s poems are published in Kweli
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Inside me, another family” and “Inside me, I write/ a swarm of wants” was published in Kweli. Kweli’s mission is to create a community of Black, Indigenous and POC artists and ...
December 1, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed in Discover Magazine
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed in Discover Magazine for a feature piece on mental health impacts of climate change. As she explained, “People who’ve directly experienced a climate-fueled disaster often experience chronic anxiety and depression in the aftermath, or ...
December 1, 2021
Kari Lerum analyzes “The White Lotus” for Ms. Magazine
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum’s essay, “The White Lotus: Lessons on Black Lives Matter, Reparations, and Queer Liberation” was recently published on the digital site for Ms. Magazine. In contrast to previous reviews which cast the popular TV mini-series, “The White Lotus,” as simply
December 1, 2021
Becca Price publishes “An Active Learning Workshop to Teach Active Learning Strategies”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and colleagues, including Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the UW Bothell School of STEM, published a paper describing a workshop that she and her colleagues give to support postdoctoral scholars in the Science Teaching Experience Program: Working in Science Education to teach them how to ...
November 24, 2021
Kristin Gustafson presents Backward Course Design
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson focused on Backward Design with two audiences recently. Backward Course Design begins with where you want students to end the class. It is a process that helps you identify how to get there. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, who wrote Understanding by Design and are credited for developing Backward Design, describe teachers as “designers.”
November 24, 2021