News from the School of IAS
Jed Murr receives Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia
IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia, where he will work with students, educators, and cultural workers in two major institutions to explore the possibilities and problems that emerge when performing the transnational work of American Studies, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies in classrooms and arts spaces outside of the US university. ...
May 15, 2020
Stephanie Chavez joins board of Latino/a Bar Association of Washington
IAS Alum Stephanie Chavez (’14) has always been driven by her passion for law and helping underrepresented communities. A natural extension of this commitment is her recent appointment to the board of the Latino/a Bar Association of Washington (LBAW) as Director of Legal Clinics. The purpose of the LBAW to represent the concerns and goals of Latino attorneys and the Latino people of the State of Washington. Chavez has worked for ...
May 14, 2020
Alumnus of the year: David Ryder
Seattle photographer and filmmaker David Ryder, who received a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) in 2011, has been recognized with a 2020 University of Washington Bothell Alumnus of the Year Award. In the highly competitive realm of freelance photojournalism, Ryder’s skill and hard work over the last 15-plus years also has earned him recognition and commercial success with an impressive list of media outlets. Ryder credits his success, in part, to MACS, which gave him space to “think about what I was doing and reflect on doing it in a more meaningful and ethical way, thinking about all the different ways power intersects with journalism, photography and using someone’s image.”
May 14, 2020
Writers of UW Bothell come together
Two graduate students and one alum from the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program have created a quarterly reading event that aims to connect current and past students. The Gamut Literary Series is led by alum Woogee Bae and current second-year students Ashley Noelle and Matt Porter. The event normally takes place at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium, which serves as a community bookstore and literary hub.
May 14, 2020
Katherine Voyles: “Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On The Limits Of Fiction”
IAS/FYPP faculty member Katherine Voyles published an article "Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On The Limits Of Fiction," in which she discusses COVID-19 and plague literature by focusing on Lawrence Wright’s new novel The End of October for War on the Rocks. She previously wrote about Wright’s work when ...
May 13, 2020
Becca Price publishes teaching module: “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies”
A team of scientists including IAS faculty member Becca Price published a teaching module called “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies” in CourseSource. In the lesson, students draw from three different data sources to explore whether vitamin C lowers severity or length of a cold in average people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the data show that vitamin C has ...
May 12, 2020
Frances Lee on becoming a bridge person in precarious times
Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) has published a new essay, “Becoming a Bridge Person in Precarious Times,” through their Bainbridge Residency with The Seventh Wave. Lee asks, "As people who are called to do bridge work, how do we do so now, in the time of quarantine, global pandemic, and personal, communal and global grief?" Read their essay.
May 12, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday about pandemic gardens
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday for a story about pandemic gardens. The piece took up the question of why the COVID-19 pandemic has set off such an unprecedented boom in home gardening. The simple answer, of course, is fear of ...
May 11, 2020
Midia De Souza’s life changed by UW Bothell scholarships
The impact of a scholarship transcends beyond the financial award. They provide students, like Midia De Souza, the opportunity - and inspiration - to find meaningful ways to get involved on campus, and even give back to their own communities. Hear De Souza describe how she’s been impacted. De Souza is ...
May 7, 2020
Fredrika Smith: LEDEing the way
Seven executives in the Monroe School District are graduates of the Leadership Development for Educators (LEDE) program, which IAS alum Fredrika Smith (’94) helped establish. The program’s influence on Monroe is due in large part to Smith, who was superintendent from 2015 until this year. Smith helped found the LEDE program and still serves as an instructor and one of the University’s contacts in a network of professional administrators.
May 7, 2020