News from the School of IAS

Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters”

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne wrote a piece for Ms. Magazine online about the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), especially in the Trump era. In it she argues that GWSS is fundamental for its explanatory power; it is needed for its ability to demand accountability, and its expertise in documenting both injustice and resistance. Shayne makes her case in part by ...

February 24, 2020

UW Bothell supports Census 2020 count

UW Bothell students, staff, faculty and community partners are working to ensure that students — and their families and members of their home communities — count this year. Shauniece Drayton, IAS alum and program coordinator of the student organization Achieving Community Transformation, leads the UW Bothell Census Complete Count committee, and IAS faculty members Gary Carpenter and Charlie Collins are teaching community based learning courses that partner with local organizations to increase participation.

February 24, 2020

Elizabeth Boone: Rising star in student personnel

For her commitment to the success of fellow students, Elizabeth “Ellie” Boone received an Undergraduate Rising Star Award in November from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Boone, a senior majoring in Community Psychology with a minor in Education, was one of only six students across the country and Canada to receive this honor.

February 11, 2020

Alka Kurian receives Fulbright Award

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian has been awarded a five-month Fulbright US Scholar award for Morocco. Starting in September 2020, Kurian will be based at the University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdella, Fez, where she will carry out research on digital feminism. Data gathered will ...

February 10, 2020

David Ryder covers coronavirus and produces documentary film

IAS alum David Ryder (’11) has been an independent Seattle photographer and filmmaker for more than 15 years. His portfolio includes extensive experience with wildfires, disaster zones, and hurricane coverage. Ryder’s most recent work concerns travel restrictions to China due to coronavirus. Later this week he will photograph a U.S. government quarantine facility near North Bend ...

February 6, 2020

Cultural Studies alumni share their career pathways

The M.A. in Cultural Studies (MACS) program prepares students for careers in social, cultural, and arts fields or further interdisciplinary graduate education across the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. Graduates work across diverse roles and sectors, and each winter a panel of alumni are invited to connect with students to share their post-graduate experiences and career navigations. This year students heard from Joshua Heim (’10), Meshell Sturgis (’17), and Mollie Wolf (’15). Each alum ...

February 6, 2020

My Story: Ending mass incarceration

While a student, Daisy Wong participated in IAS faculty member Gary Carpenter’s “Arts of Social Transformation,” a mixed enrollment course at Monroe Correctional Complex, alongside incarcerated individuals. Says Wong, “As a Community Psychology major, this course was a culmination of everything that I had learned about systemic oppression, racism and how these mechanisms disproportionately affect black and brown communities.” The recent graduate is now pursuing a Master of Social Work at UW in Seattle.

February 3, 2020

Melanie Malone’s work highlighted as part of UW’s Urban Environmental Justice Initiative

With a background in soil science and geology, Melanie Malone positions her work in the space of Critical Physical Geography, a theoretical framework that connects biophysical sciences to social sciences and spatial analysis. In her teaching and research, Malone’s technical experience in the environmental remediation of industrial and Superfund sites merges with a consideration of social justice and equity. She emphasizes that issues like racism and sexism are environmental problems, yet ...

February 3, 2020

Julie Shayne attends the winter Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) meeting

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne traveled to San Diego, CA to participate in the SWS’s annual winter meeting. This year’s theme was “Feminist Futures in the Global South: Research, Activism and Creativity.” Shayne presented a paper about her new research project titled “My Scholarly Return to the Global North: A History of U.S. Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.” In it, Shayne discussed ...

February 3, 2020