News from the School of IAS

Karam Dana on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban (KUOW)

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was interviewed by KUOW’s Kim Malcolm for “All Things Considered” on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban. Dana reflected on what this reversal means to the local Muslim American community, and its impact globally, situating the issue of discrimination towards Muslims as a central problem with how American society has operated ...

January 27, 2021

Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “The general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. These policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”

January 27, 2021

Karam Dana: “Timely lessons from 2020: The Course”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was a panelist on "Timely Lessons from 2020: The Course." The four panelists from all three UW campuses discussed their lectures in teaching the more than 900 students registered for the course in a live broadcast in which the discussion was around the significance of the course in reflecting on the year 2020. A recording of the segment ...

January 25, 2021

Karam Dana serves as panelist in “Teaching Remotely Pop-Up Series”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana served as a panelist on (“Had I But Known” Insights to Improve Teaching) as part of the UW Center for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Remotely Pop-Up Series, which is designed to highlight best-practices and essential aspects of effective remote instruction along with ...

January 22, 2021

Bruce Burgett co-edits essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited, with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), a dossier of essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and their aftermath. “Keywords Now” contains brief elaborations of essays published in the third edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, also co-edited by Burgett and Hendler. The elaborations focus on the keywords conservatism ...

January 22, 2021

Kelsey Lee Cate releases debut album and builds artist career online

IAS alum Kelsey Lee Cate was improvising songs before she could read. Growing up in a musical family, she began classical piano training at age five and by middle school, was performing at weddings and special events. Today, Cate is a sought-after pianist and ...

January 22, 2021

Karam Dana speaks on religion and political participation among minorities in the US

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture on January 15th as part of the On the Corner Symposium: Nexus at the Political Intersection of Race and Religion Research sponsored and hosted by the Taft Research Center of the University of Cincinnati. His lecture was titled "Role of Religion in Political Participation Among Minorities in the US.” The video ...

January 22, 2021

Amaranth Borsuk Publishes “Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona”

On January 15th the Quarantine Public Library released a new slate of free printable chapbooks, including IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's "Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona," a series of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets. QPL publishes artists' books designed for a single side of an 8.5 x 11 page which readers print, fold and cut using a simple template. ...

January 21, 2021

Kristina Jorgensen collaborates on legislation and receives capacity-building grant

In 2020, Kristina Jorgensen graduated from IAS with a major in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and began her graduate education in the M.A. in Policy Studies. She is also an alum of the D.C. Seminar in Human Rights (2019). Since beginning the M.A. in Policy Studies program, Jorgensen has successfully advanced a number of impactful justice projects through her research, networking, advocacy and leadership. ...

January 21, 2021