News from the School of IAS
IAS undergraduate students present their research at the 2021 Global Engagement Conference
IAS undergraduate students Katharina Brinschwitz and Sarah Ramirez presented their research, "Reimagining Global Education: How the High Impact Practice Model Can Decolonize International Engagement," at the 2021 Global Engagement Conference at UW Tacoma. You can view ...
May 25, 2021
Six IAS students recognized in the 2021 Husky 100
Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW. The Husky 100 actively connect what happens inside and outside of the classroom and apply what they learn to make a difference on campus, in their communities, and for the future. This year six IAS students are included in this recognition:
May 24, 2021
IAS Faculty Promotions
IAS faculty members Charlie Collins, Minda Martin, Sara Maxwell, and Mira Shimabukuro have been promoted in rank.
May 24, 2021
Chelsea Nesvig and Nia Lam publish “Online library research refresher activities for third-year transfer students”
UW Bothell librarians Chelsea Nesvig and Nia Lam published a book chapter, “Online library research refresher activities for third-year transfer students” in Transfer Student Success: Academic Library Outreach and Engagement, published by ALA Editions.
May 21, 2021
Ten students share the fifth annual Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Award!
This year ten GWSS students from Lauren Lichty’s class “Participatory Action Research to Address Sexual and Relationship Violence at the University of Washington Bothell” will share the LAFPIE award. The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) community created the award in 2016, the year they launched the degree, to honor and commemorate their colleague Leslie Ashbaugh.
May 21, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Women and Non-Binary Faculty of Color are Vulnerable One Year into Pandemic”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen collaborated with other pre-tenure women and non-binary faculty of color at the University of Washington to write an opinion piece about the impact of navigating the transitions resulting from coronavirus on women or non-binary faculty of color early in their academic careers.
May 18, 2021
Ching-In Chen: What if?
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. In "My Story: What if," Chen reflects on their experience as a community organizer, having worked in Asian American communities across the nation.
May 17, 2021
Rebecca Brown’s “A Vision” translated into Japanese
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s story “A Vision" has just been translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata and published in a two volume set of English language stories (Kenkyusha).
May 17, 2021
IAS faculty win Simpson Center Awards
IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics. IAS faculty member Shannon Cram won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is ...
May 14, 2021
Jessica Trenkamp receives IAS Staff Recognition Award
Congratulations to Jessica Trenkamp, our Senior Academic Advisor, for receiving an IAS Staff Recognition Award! Trenkamp’s extraordinary support of the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) students and faculty, before and during remote operations, has had a profound impact on the program and its members. She advocates for ...
May 12, 2021