News from the School of IAS

Seattle Human Rights Day features student research and Abigail Echo-Hawk

For several years, students of the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar have participated in Seattle Human Rights Day by presenting their human rights research at the pre-program reception. The 2019 event was particularly special, as Abigail Echo-Hawk, both an IAS and D.C. Seminar alum, was a featured speaker in the main program, “Amplifying Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples’ Voices.”

January 7, 2020

Alum Joshua Mueller and Jin-Kyu Jung partner on community-based project

During Winter quarter IAS alum Joshua Mueller will serve as the City of Redmond’s liaison to Jin Kyu Jung’s “Mapping Communities” course project, where students will utilize various research methods to create dynamic and interactive digital maps that meet community needs. Once a student of Jung’s, Mueller is a Senior Engineering Technician with the city and jumped at the opportunity to…

January 6, 2020

 Ching-In Chen: “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred” was selected by guest curator Meg Day for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The series initially began as one-hundred-word segments, which were braided to evoke the ghostly dislocations and detachments of relocating from Houston to Seattle. You can ...

January 6, 2020

Berette Macaulay cited in Seattle Times’ list of hottest events for January 2020

Berette Macaulay, second-year Cultural Studies candidate, recently collaborated with the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and the Photographic Center of the Northwest to bring “MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora” to Seattle, introducing public audiences to “the broad yet nuanced creative, cultural, and interventionist visions offered by black women photographers both internationally as well as in the Pacific Northwest.” Her upcoming curated exhibition

January 3, 2020

UW Bothell students study around the world

The UW Bothell Global Scholars program launched in 2018. Its purpose is to create a support network for a cohort of students from diverse groups that often do not have access to these sorts of opportunities. “Before we began Global Scholars, we were getting really fantastic students who were interested in international education,” said IAS faculty member Ron Krabill, “but they weren’t able to make it those last few steps for a variety of reasons. We wanted to make a program that gave students the support that made it possible for them to get where they wanted to go.”

January 3, 2020

Maryam Griffin receives Society of Scholars Fellowship

IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has been awarded a Society of Scholars fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This fellowship will support Griffin's work on her research project “Vehicles of Decolonization: Politics and Public Transportation in the Palestinian West Bank.” Griffin will join ...

January 2, 2020

DJ and radio personality Harmony Soleil visits campus

IAS alum Harmony Soleil is a resident DJ at Seattle’s C89.5 and co-founder of UWave Radio. Recently, she visited UW Bothell to chat with students in IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft’s “Community Radio Journalism” course about her experiences with interviewing musicians and…

January 2, 2020

Student project with Snohomish County Department of Elections

This fall's BIS 175 American Government & Politics class worked on a quarter-long group project with the Snohomish County Department of Elections and the UW Bothell Community-Based Learning & Research (CBLR) office. Garth Fell (Snohomish County Elections manager) and Duncan Clauson (Elections and Voter Outreach Specialist) ...

December 23, 2019

Lambacher on ecological nostalgia at Pacific Northwest Political Science Conference

AS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented a paper currently being worked on for publication at the PNW Political Science conference in Boise, ID in November 2019. The paper argues technological, cultural, and environmental change has produced a world that is awash in nostalgia for what has vanished or is threatened with disappearance. But while nostalgia is pervasive ...

December 23, 2019