News from the School of IAS

Raissa DeSmet collaborates on Southeast Asia authoritarianism project funded at $1,000,000

IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet is collaborating with faculty colleagues from the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center (SEAC) on a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Southeast Asia initiative for a project titled, "Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy." Along with DeSmett, faculty who developed the project are ...

July 23, 2020

Megan Dunn and Jared Mead: Snohomish County leaders

IAS Alums Megan Dunn and Jared Mead are both members of the Snohomish County Council who’ve retained strong times to UW Bothell. Dunn (M.A. in Policy Studies ’13) is an Everett community leader who was elected to a four-year term from the district that includes Everett, Mukilteo and Tulalip. Mead (Global Studies ’14) is a state lawmaker from Mill Creek who was selected by the council to fill a vacant seat for the district that includes the Snohomish County part of Bothell.

July 20, 2020

Yolanda Padilla publishes “Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms”

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published "Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms" in Writing / Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. In her chapter, Padilla reflects on how U.S. literary studies' neglect of recovered Latinx texts results in a lost opportunity for important field transformation. She ...

July 20, 2020

Meshell Sturgis’s essay on Interrupting Privilege published on Media Rise

Alum Meshell Sturgis’s essay has been published in Media Rise’s special issue, Quarantined Across Borders (QAB). Media Rise is a shared collaborative space for artists, educators, storytellers, and activists; the QAB initiative represents 80+ authors across 30+ countries sharing their quarantine stories.

July 17, 2020

Karam Dana chairs Comparative Politics section of WPSA conference

IAS faculty member Karam Dana has been selected to chair the Comparative Politics section of the 2021 Western Political Science Association’s conference. which will be held in Seattle, WA in April 1-3, 2021. The theme of the 2021 WPSA conference is "POPULISM, NATIVISM, DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING AND PANDEMIC POLITICS.”

July 13, 2020

Jonathan Cluts: Sharing music during a pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic, Jonathan Cluts, who has deep ties to UW Bothell and experience at Microsoft and in music production, has been a positive example of the ways people can give back to the community. Cluts is an IAS alum (’94), member of the IAS Advisory Board, and former director of strategic initiatives at UW Bothell.

July 6, 2020

Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Washington state, IAS faculty member Dan Berger thought immediately of prisons. As co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, Berger joined a chorus of activists and scholars calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to release many of the 19,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails. Read his interview in University of Washington Magazine.

June 30, 2020

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