July 2020

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) alum Gabrielle Fox (’19)  put her degree to work in a research article “Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps: An American Mythology,” published in the UW Bothell student journal The Crow (2020 edition). The article systematically debunks the idea that level of effort is equivalent to level of success in the United States. Those who struggle ...

IAS faculty member Min Tang  presented at the 2020 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference. This year's theme was "Reimagining the Digital Future: Building inclusiveness, respect and reciprocity." Tang’s video presentation on “The Networked Digital Power: Capital Connections in Global ICT and Geopolitical Implications" ...

A career public health professional, Jefferson Ketchel graduated from the M.A. in Policy Studies in 2008 and went on to serve as administrator for Grant County Health District and later, Snohomish Health District. Now, as the executive director for Washington State Public Health Association (WSPHA), Ketchel finds himself in the midst of a global pandemic and broken health system that is ill-coordinated, inefficiently allocated, and overall ...

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) student Elisabeth Schnebele published an article, "Men and Masculinities: A Case Study of Mass Shootings in the United States," in the UW Bothell student journal The Crow (2020 edition). The article is a case study analysis of three mass shootings and explores the potential connection between mass shootings and the values imposed by hegemonic masculinity. Since ...

IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet is collaborating with faculty colleagues from the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center (SEAC) on a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Southeast Asia initiative for a project titled, "Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy."  Along with DeSmett, faculty who developed the project are ...