News from the School of IAS
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
Becca Price moderates conversation on inclusive teaching
IAS faculty member Becca Price moderated a conversation about inclusive teaching with Bryan Dewsbury (The University of Rhode Island) and Cynthia Brame (Vanderbilt University). The conversation was part of the Online with LSE webinar series sponsored by CBE-Life Sciences Education.
May 7, 2021
IAS selects 2021 Hall of Alumni Excellence inductees
Each year IAS honors the extraordinary achievements and contributions of its alumni through the Hall of Alumni Excellence, and we are excited to announce our 2021 inductees: Woogee Bae, Maximilian Dixon, Morgan Mentzer, Alejandra Perez, and Ben Wiselogle. ...
May 7, 2021
LETI selected as 2021 IAS Outstanding Community Partner
The IAS Outstanding Community Partner award honors the extraordinary contributions of partner organizations. Recipients advance the IAS values of equity, inclusion, and social justice and link student learning and faculty scholarship to real-life experiences that positively impact our region and world.
May 6, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s lyric essay “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism” was published for the Being Lazy and Slowing Down blog. Being Lazy and Slowing Down was started by Dr. Kimine Mayuzumi and Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan as a way to ...
May 5, 2021
Becca Price: Pandemic-Related Instructor Talk
IAS faculty member Becca Price spent fall and winter of 2019/20 supporting a team of postdoctoral scholars as they developed biology seminar courses to teach at UW Bothell and at UW Seattle for spring of 2020. These beginning instructors had to quickly change their approach to teaching in the face of the emotional crises of that spring and the sudden shift to remote teaching. Price and the instructors published a paper ...
May 5, 2021