News from the School of IAS

Katherine Voyles on James Mattis, ecology & religion, and national defense in culture

IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles recently published on the re-emergence into public life of General James Mattis for Small Wars Journal. She also participated in a conference on “Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies,” and appeared on the podcast Trumpcast to discuss issues of national defense in culture and the cultures of national defense.

November 4, 2019

Ching-In Chen curates a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has curated a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit currently on display at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative through December 6. In New Asian Futurisms, artists re-repaired the imaginations of fragmented pasts and observed multiple histories of diverse communities in looking forward to the future. In their work ...

November 1, 2019

Shibuki Hanai discusses his Public Management Fellowship with City of Hillsboro

IAS alum Shibuki Hanai (‘14, ’18) has been serving as a Public Management Fellow for the City of Hillsboro, Oregon since July. This fellowship is designed for emerging leaders with a strong commitment to public service and provides a breadth of experience in local government. Hanai talked with IAS News about his motivations to seek the fellowship and how his interdisciplinary education prepared him for this experience.

October 31, 2019

Alumni Shout Out!

Danny Molvik (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’04, Policy Studies, ’07) is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon working on their mobile shopping app. Hillary U (Culture, Literature & the Arts; Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’10) has joined Amazon Web Services as their Senior Communications & Operations Manager for EC2 Business Development. Woogee Bae (Creative Writing & Poetics, ’19) has joined Seattle Arts & Lectures as a Donor Relations Associate. Ray Corona (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’13) visited Julie Shayne and ...

October 30, 2019

Jennifer Atkinson presents research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson presented her research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress at the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Speaking to an audience of climate educators, students, university administrators and environmental justice activists, her panel shared emerging research in higher education showing that young people carry an increasing emotional response of fear, anger, frustration, and sadness in response to climate disruption.

October 30, 2019

Valdez and Groom lead exploration seminar in Peru

IAS faculty members Ursula Valdez and Martha Groom co-taught an Exploration Seminar "From Andes to Amazon: Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Peru." The 26-day study abroad program allowed 15 students to learn in person about species and ecosystems in tropical rainforest and the Andean mountains, and about traditional uses of resources and local conservation challenges. The location was also ...

October 30, 2019

IAS faculty members share insights into online international collaborations

Several IAS faculty members shared insights regarding online, international collaborations at the International Virtual Exchange Conference in Tacoma in late October. Ron Krabill led a workshop that addressed the ethics of virtual exchanges and study abroad programs, respectively. He also facilitated a panel discussion coordinate by Min Tang, together with Salwa Al-Noori (School of STEM) and Mo West (School of Nursing and Health Sciences), regarding UW Bothell’s cohort-based learning community on ...

October 29, 2019

Julie Shayne and Jessica Manfredi publish paper about feminist activist scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro era

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty member Julie Shayne and Global Studies alum Jessica Manfredi co-authored an article titled “Reflections on Activist Scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro Era: Dual Hemisphere Hate Transforms Intellectual Praxis into Political Imperative” which just came out in the Colombian open-access journal Revista CS. It was published in a special issue on activist scholarship ...

October 24, 2019

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured in the New York Times

IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali are highlighted in the New York Times for their upcoming November residency at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design. In the article titled, “A Hawaii Home for Islamic Art Widens Its Scope” Sugano and Ali, through their media lab Studio Revolt, are mentioned as invited “artists charged with exploring Muslim and Hawaiian cultures in new ways.”

October 24, 2019