News from the School of IAS

Five IAS faculty members receive Royalty Research Funds

Five IAS faculty members have received Royalty Research Fund (RRF) awards over the last year. The RRF is open to faculty across the UW system and provides one-year awards of up to $40,000 that are intended to generate preliminary findings, seed scholarly and creative activities, and increase faculty’s competitiveness for future external funding. The IAS faculty who received RRF awards include ...

February 3, 2020

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali complete artist residency with Shangri La Museum

IAS faculty members Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali recently completed their commissioning residency work at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design. Early in 2019, the museum announced that the two collaborating partners of Studio Revolt would be in resident from Nov 6-17, 2019. During their residency ...

January 30, 2020

Amaranth Borsuk presents at the annual Modern Language Association Conference

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk participated in this year's MLA conference in Seattle in January, where she spoke on the panel "Weird Books" convened by Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania) and Élika Ortega (University of Colorado Boulder). The panel invited scholars and book artists to "think critically about the role of weirdness in studying the material text [and] excavate the history and materiality of a weird book." Borsuk's talk ...

January 30, 2020

Ching-In Chen selected for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been selected to be one of twelve writers for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program by curator Anastacia-Renée. The program features voice and presentation training, in-studio interviews, public readings, a published anthology, and podcasts. ...

January 28, 2020

Natalie Singer reflects on 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

An essay by MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) was published in Crosscut on the 75 anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In her article, “75 years after Auschwitz, a Seattle Jew wonders: Are we traveling backward?,” Singer reflects on the rise of anti-Semitism in America and her experiences as a Jewish woman in Canada and the U.S. Writes Singer ...

January 28, 2020

Maizy Brown: The Power of Belonging

As a first-generation student and single mother experiencing homelessness, Maizy Brown (Environmental Studies ’11) faced many obstacles. However, “the professors at UW Bothell made me feel like I deserved to be there.” Brown now works as a case manager at Edmonds Community College.

January 27, 2020

Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits artwork in 4 different countries

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited her artworks in four different countries. Ali is an internationally recognized artist whose works span performance, installation, video, images, public encounters, and political agitation. This past November Ali’s works were on view concurrently at the Jogja National Museum (Indonesia), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (The Netherlands), Gajah Gallery (Singapore) and the Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway). ...

January 24, 2020

Jennifer Atkinson discusses climate grief with LA Times

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for a story exploring the emotional impact of our climate crisis. As 2020 kicked off with the world's attention focused on the Australian bushfires, there has been little discussion of the far-reaching mental health consequences of such disasters. Atkinson explained that we still primarily frame climate change as a scientific or technical problem, when in fact it is a deeply emotional issue as well ...

January 24, 2020

Jung Lee nominated for Distinguished Staff Award

Jung Lee, Policy Studies alum and currently IAS's Assistant Director of Academic Services has been selected as one of the 2020 nominees for the University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award. The Distinguished Staff Award honors outstanding University of Washington staff and teams...

January 22, 2020