News from the School of IAS
Dr. Julie Shayne publishes in Ms. Magazine about the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Dr. Shayne has a new piece in Ms. Magazine online called “I Want to Be Obsolete. Instead, I’m Afraid to Teach.” The piece appears in the new series “Banned!” which features op-eds and personal reflections about the current attacks on higher education. In her piece, Shayne reflects on the irony of the current moment in which feminist academics have so...
April 3, 2026
Adam Romero awarded the UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Fellowship
Adam Romero received the UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Fellowship for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food (1945-1985). The book explores the relationship between the chronic overproduction of food and fiber in the United States and the rapid expansion of industrial chemicals in the decades after WWII.
April 3, 2026
Jennifer Atkinson presents on climate hope at Berklee College of Music
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was a Visiting Artist at Berklee College of Music in March 2026, where she facilitated a discussion and presentation on “Radical Hope as Resistance.” Drawing on her teaching and research on the emotional dimensions of climate change, Atkinson highlighted ways that choosing hope—and rejecting narratives of inevitable ecological and political...
March 6, 2026
Julie Shayne presents at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter conference
Dr. Julie Shayne attended the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) winter meeting and participated in two sessions. She was an invited speaker on a session organized by the Professional Development committee called “On Leaving the Tenure Track without a Plan.” The discussion focused on career transitions and alternatives to traditional academic trajectories. She also...
February 10, 2026
IAS Faculty Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper in a special issue of “More-Than-Human Mapping”
Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hieber published a paper on “More-Than-Human Psychogeography: On “Bat-Like” Places and Imaginary Geographie” in the special issue of “More-Than-Human Mappings” in the Livingmaps Review journal. The paper uses a creative re-interpretation of psychogeography as a conceptual framework—less about the psychological dimensions of real space and more about the mind’s spatiality, for...
February 2, 2026
IAS Professor Santiago Lopez publishes book chapter on air pollution and Earth observation technologies
IAS Professor Santiago Lopez published a book chapter in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Augsburg and the Salesian Polytechnic University examining the use of Earth observation technologies to assess air quality risks to society. The chapter highlights satellite remote sensing as a powerful tool for monitoring air pollution, particularly in regions with limited...
February 2, 2026
Santiago Lopez and IAS alumni Neal Hicks and Jacqueline Feola publish invasive species research
UW Bothell School of IAS Professor Santiago Lopez and alumni Neal Hicks and Jacqueline Feola, recently published a new research article examining the factors driving the spread of English holly (Ilex aquifolium) in Pacific Northwest urban forests in the journal Discover Plants. Their findings provide important guidance for urban forest management and restoration, helping to...
February 2, 2026
Shannon Cram presents at the Atomic Photographers Guild
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented to the Atomic Photographers Guild about environmental cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She was joined by photographer, architect, and guild member Harley Cowan who shared documentary images of Hanford’s B Reactor, T plant, and other historic buildings on site. The Atomic Photographers Guild is “an international collective of...
January 27, 2026
Adam Romero publishes a review of Chemical Geographies scholarship
IAS faculty member Adam Romero recently published a review of Chemical Geographies scholarship. Chemical Geographies is a loose body of literature that moves beyond the impact of chemicals from a singularly environmental or toxicological perspective to explore how chemistry and chemicals lie at heart of what it means to be human today.
January 27, 2026
Kari Lerum publishes in special forum on Femme Interiorities
Kari Lerum recently published an article entitled “Made again Femme” for an invited forum on Femme Interiorities in the journal Society & Space. The forum features experimental writing from scholars meditating on the spatial metaphor of “interiority” as it applies to femininity and femme identity. Lerum’s contribution transports femme from a relational reference to Femme...
December 15, 2025