News from the School of IAS
Shana Lee Hirsch publishes Anticipating Future Environments
M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Shana Lee Hirsch has published a new monograph, Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin, with University of Washington Press. In this book, Hirsch tells the story of restoration science in the Columbia River Basin, surveying its past and detailing the work of today’s salmon habitat restoration efforts. Her analysis ...
December 16, 2020
In Defense of a Humanities Education
IAS junior Joe Lollo wrote an opinion piece for The Husky Herald on the relevance of humanities education. A double-major in Culture, Literature & the Arts and Media & Communication Studies, Lollo is an aspiring educator and has been contributing to The Husky Herald for two years. “The humanities really are a valuable course of study – it is not only edifying and intellectually stimulating, but ...
December 15, 2020
Teaching in the moment: The 2020 election
As the elections unfolded dramatically this year, IAS faculty members Min Tang and Camille Walsh combined their backgrounds in media, communications, law, economics and public policy to create their course, The 2020 Election: U.S Media and Politics. “We structured the class in a way that allowed students to talk about self-selected issues in a community that wants to have those difficult and rewarding conversations,” said Walsh.
December 15, 2020
Walking and thinking go hand in hand
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher’s course The Art and Politics of Walking discusses walking as a vehicle to explore other topics — paying attention, mindfulness, politics, protests and environmental design. In the year of the coronavirus, Lambacher didn’t have to spend much time persuading students who have been cooped up at home to go outside and walk.
December 15, 2020
Human rights student researcher reflects on meeting with Senator Patty Murray
When I first heard that UW Bothell’s D.C. Human Rights Seminar would be held virtually this year, I couldn’t help but be disappointed and worried. The seminar would have been a week-long trip to Washington D.C., where we get to meet with several federal bodies and think tanks to research human rights cases. But can these types of conversations still be possible if these meetings are all virtual instead?
December 15, 2020
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali Awarded a 2020 Art Matters Grant
Studio Revolt, the collaborative media lab of IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano was awarded a 2020 Art Matters grant. The Art Matters foundation awarded 37 fellowships of 5,000 USD each to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. In this year of pandemics and protests, Art Matters engaged ...
December 11, 2020
Supporting International Students course boosted by alumni
International students have unique needs and face different challenges than their counterparts. Prior to the pandemic, IAS staff members Jung Lee and Sakara Buyagawan received a UW Bothell Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement Fellowship to explore support options for international students. Their efforts, however, became urgent when the U.S. Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) placed restrictions on international students’ visitor status, due to the COVID-19 health crisis.
December 10, 2020
Paul Johnson leads diversity, equity, and inclusion at Seattle Waldorf School
IAS alum Paul Johnson has joined Seattle Waldorf School as their first Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI). In this capacity, Johnson will develop and implement programs and strategies to help ensure that all students, faculty, and staff feel valued for their individual talents and unique cultural perspectives. He will also seek to broaden the diversity of ...
December 7, 2020
Julie Shayne blogs about Trump refusing to concede the election
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the patriarchal entitlement that allows Donald Trump to refuse to concede the election. In it she argues that if he were a woman this highly unprofessional and immature behavior would likely put an end to all future woman presidential candidate’s careers whereas no men’s political careers are going to be even slightly damaged by his behavior. Read: “If Trump Were A Woman.”
December 7, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson releases Episode 6 of her podcast “Facing It”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson releases Episode 6 of her podcast Facing It, a series exploring climate anxiety and eco-grief. The latest episode in the series, titled Embracing Uncertainty, is available on apps like Apple podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and Stitcher. As Atkinson argues in this new episode ...
December 4, 2020