News from the School of IAS
Printing as a PAGE Fellow with C Genevieve Hicks: Art, Fellowship, and Public Scholarship
Join us in celebrating and congratulating C. Genevieve Hicks—a forever conjure woman, emerging poet, and dedicated physical therapist with over three decades of practice—for her continued contributions to art, healing, and community. During her first year in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program, her professor Ching-In Chen encouraged her to apply for the...
June 3, 2025
Ferrare publishes study on for-profit virtual charter high schools
A new study published by Joe Ferrare and collaborators from the University of Notre Dame and University of Kentucky has found that students attending for-profit virtual charter high schools experience dramatically worse educational outcomes compared to their comparable peers in traditional public schools. The study, published in the journal Educational Researcher, analyzed 11 years of...
June 3, 2025
Asian American Psychology Lab presents at UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and UWB Academic Showcase 2025
Asian American Psychology Lab undergraduate research assistants Dhishitha Madhavan, Nicholas Perez, and Danielle Garcia presented research at the 2025 UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and UWB Academic Showcase. IAS faculty member Jaki Yi served as a mentor for their research presentations. Drawing from initial findings of an ongoing qualitative study on the psychological and sociopolitical experiences...
June 3, 2025
Kari Lerum publishes article on critical autoethnography
Faculty member Kari Lerum recently published an article in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, entitled “Layer it like lasagna: Critical, creative, & courageous autoethnography.” While autoethnography has become increasingly popular as a method of research as well as pedagogy, this article contributes to a gap of publications on how to both produce and teach...
April 30, 2025
Julie Shayne’s students recognized in Columbia magazine
Students in Julie Shayne’s “Rad Womxn in the Global South” (BIS 227) class collectively produce a digital zine called Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest. The project was featured in the Spring 2025 version of Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History in their Exploring Women’s History Resources section. Joanna Rolanda, author of the...
April 2, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Speaks to Harvard Undergraduates About Emotional Resilience and Climate Change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke on a panel highlighting mental health and climate change hosted by Harvard University undergraduates and UNICEF. Their 2025 conference, Mental Health Among Post-Pandemic Youth, featured speakers highlighting issues of loneliness, climate change, media and mental health, and international development and humanitarian programming in the Global South. Atkinson discussed strategies...
April 2, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Leads Climate Education Seminar for Association of American Geographers
Jennifer Atkinson shared strategies for coping with climate distress at both the Center for Climate Literacy (CCL) and the Association of American Geographers’ (AAG) Spring 2025 webinar, where she spoke about Teaching Climate and Environmental Justice. Atkinson featured resources and teaching strategies from her book The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach...
February 20, 2025
Asian American Psychology Lab led by Jaki Yi presents at UWB LEAD Conference
The Asian American Psychology Lab (led by IAS faculty member Jaki Yi and undergraduate research assistants Dish Madhavan, Nicholas Perez, Wing Hadrann, Jenivee Marie Sarmiento, and Danielle Garcia) presented their research and facilitated a workshop on perfectionism and self compassion at the UWB LEAD Conference on February 7, 2025. They presented their initial findings from...
February 20, 2025
IAS Faculty to lead Migration Stories Community Workshop
On February 8, Naomi Macalalad Bragin and Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra will co-facilitate the Migration Stories Community Workshop, a new partnership with Derek Dizon, founder and steward of A Resting Place grief and loss cultural resource center in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. The workshop focuses on migration as a form of separation and loss embedded deeply in...
February 6, 2025
Jin-Kyu Jung Published a Chapter in “How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography”
Jin-Kyu Jung published a book chapter titled, “Evoking Critical and Creative Forms of Mapping/GIS for Digital and Health (In)Equity,” in the book on How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography. The collected volume—edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves—addresses the pressing challenges facing the Geography and related disciplines in understanding, engaging, and...
February 6, 2025
