News from the School of IAS
Melanie Malone teaches “Abolition Geography”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone, along with colleagues Megan Ybarra (UW Seattle), JM Wong (Free Them All), and Edd Hampton (Blaq Elephant Party), taught a special winter microseminar entitled "Abolition Geography" with community partners, UW graduate students, and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The microseminar culminated in a ...
March 22, 2021
Debate sharpens nonnative speaking skills
English is the second language for students Helen Fita and Misheel Ildbaatar, members of the UW Bothell Debate Team. Both say debate has prompted new ways to think about language and culture — and has been a way to make friends during remote operations. According to IAS faculty member and director of forensics Denise Vaughan, students improve their literacy by capitalizing on storytelling and speaking about what they’re interested in. “They can find their strength in speaking and connect it back to their academic work in terms of writing.”
March 18, 2021
Alka Kurian on “The Golden Age of Social Protest: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian gave an invited talk on “The Golden Age of Social Protest: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism” as part of the “ishq: issues in society, history, and queerness” series at Ashoka University in Delhi, India. The talk focused on ...
March 18, 2021
Jessica Crawford shares insights on COVID-19 vaccine distribution
As more COVID-19 vaccines become available, countries around the world are faced with the daunting task of carrying out mass vaccinations. Master of Arts in Policy Studies alum Jessica Crawford, serves as Director, Global Technical Team for VillageReach, a non-profit global health innovator that develops, tests, implements and scales new solutions to critical health system challenges in low-resource environments. Crawford is responsible for ...
March 16, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new book and participates in Virtual New York Art Book Fair
This month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk publishes The Book: 101 Definitions, a collection of responses to the question What is the/a book?, which she posed to artists, poets, bookbinders, librarians, publishers, and booksellers. Published by Montreal artist's book publisher Anteism on the occasion of Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair, the book is ...
March 16, 2021
Kristin Gustafson receives Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History
The Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division selected IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson as one of the 2021 winners for its Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History. She will present a hands-on virtual teaching module at this year’s conference in August. Her teaching idea submission ...
March 15, 2021
Julie Shayne joins roundtable on feminist writing and publishing
The president of the Southeast Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) invited IAS faculty member, and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies coordinator, Julie Shayne to speak on a roundtable called “Emerging Scholars: A Writing and Publishing Roundtable Organizers.” The invitation followed Shayne’s presentation at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference last fall where she ...
March 15, 2021
Partners in India elevate discussions
For winter quarter, IAS faculty member Gary Carpenter’s course, Creative Activism: Inspiring Social Change through the Arts, collaborated with Pravah, a partner in India, in discussing social issues and producing an online arts festival. Pravah is a New Delhi nonprofit that develops youth leadership throughout India using social justice campaigns. Pravah and the UW Bothell students both held festivals on Feb. 27, but they were not at the same time because of the time difference. Both festivals featured music, poetry, videos and discussions on themes of justice, community, resilience and gratitude.
March 11, 2021
Melanie Malone participates in “NightSchool: Women in Science”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone was invited to participate in the "NightSchool: Women in Science" panel on March 4th, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. The panel is held annually on International Women's Day, and features insightful conversations about what it’s like and what it means to be a woman in science in 2021. Melanie discussed ...
March 10, 2021
Jason Morse: What’s surprising about sex, gender, race?
In the Discovery Core course The Functions of Sex: Race and Gender in America discussions quickly move from the awkward to the intellectual, and students sometimes surprise their instructor, IAS faculty member Jason Morse. Designed to help first-year college students explore new concepts and interdisciplinary issues, the course is a cultural study of sex as a form of identity, socialization and power in framing gender and race.
March 8, 2021