News from the School of IAS

UW Bothell ranked a top Fulbright institution

The University of Washington Bothell continues to be recognized for producing Fulbright scholars, with three IAS faculty members receiving recent awards. They include Alka Kurian, who will conduct research on transnational fourth wave feminisms in Morocco; Jed Murr, who will teach ethnic American literature in Slovenia; and David Goldstein, who will teach American studies in Japan.

March 24, 2021

On the Boards announces Berette S Macaulay as inaugural Curatorial Fellow

The performing arts organization, On the Boards, has announced M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Berette S Macaulay as their inaugural Curatorial Fellow. Macaulay is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from Jamaica and Sierra Leone whose research and visual arts practice engage themes of belonging, identity-performance, illegibility, love, memory, and mythmaking. The Curatorial Fellow has ...

March 24, 2021

Shauna Elbers Carlisle selected to join William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative and Computational Scholars

IAS faculty member Shauna Elbers Carlisle will be part of the new William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative and Computational (AQC) Scholars Cohort. The AQC Cohort is a highly-competitive National Science Foundation program that gathers scholars who are seeking to transform their professions and research through critical data science methodologies. Carlisle brings to the cohort ...

March 24, 2021

Joshua Heim helps build a cultural ecosystem

Joshua Heim (Master of Arts in Cultural Studies ’10) is working behind the scenes at 4Culture, King County’s cultural funding agency, to help arts and culture recover from the pandemic – with equity as their North Star. “The good things most people like about their communities are cultural, whether it’s a festival, a local civic organization or an old building that anchors your main street,” says Heim, who as deputy director is leading the agency’s COVID-19 recovery task force.

March 23, 2021

Travis Sharp publishes Yes, I am a corpse flower

Travis Sharp is a poet, editor, book artist, teacher, and PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). This spring, a revision of his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics thesis, Yes, I am a corpse flower, will be published by KFB, a small press affiliated with the poetry bookstore Knife Fork Book in Toronto. Sharp will read from Yes, I am a corpse flower at his upcoming book launch on March 31 with special guest ...

March 22, 2021

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

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