January 2019

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award. The awards are single-year grants intended to support action-oriented and publicly-focused collaborations between academics, students, and non-academic activists. Malone will be assessing homeless populations' exposure to potentially harmful contaminants by sampling contaminants in homeless rest areas in several cities across the U.S.

An interview with IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is featured in the 2019 edition of Sex Matters: The Sexuality & Society Reader. The edited volume spotlights 10 leading researchers in the field of sexuality studies. Lerum is interviewed on her research trajectory and philosophy regarding commercial sex.

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft has published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!” in the edited volume, “Doing Politics. Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse” published by John Benjamins in 2018. The book brings together selected articles from a 2017 conference on “Political Discourse” in the UK. In the chapter, Toft presents a ...

Students in BISMCS 343D Community Radio Journalism were excited to facilitate two workshops on public affairs programming in November 2018.  The first workshop was held at SPACE 101.1 FM KMPG-LP at Magnuson Park, on Saturday Nov 17^th from 9am-12pm, where participants learned how to record and edit a Vox Pop.  The second workshop was held at 96.9 FM KODX-LP in the University District, on Thursday Nov 29^th from 6-9pm, where they ...

IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. The news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored  a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...