News from the School of IAS
Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project
Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. The book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers...
August 21, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Talks Climate at San Francisco Public Library
Jennifer Atkinson gave a book talk at San Francisco Public Library as part of July’s Everybody’s Climate series, a program meant to inspire participants to take action for a more just and sustainable future. In her talk, Grief & Hope in a Burning World: Strategies for Climate Resilience Atkinson discussed how addressing climate challenges requires...
August 5, 2025
IAS faculty Shannon Cram is a Visiting Writer at Eastern Oregon University
IAS professor Shannon Cram served as a visiting writer at Eastern Oregon University’s New Nature Writing Conference, a project of the school’s MFA program in Creative Writing. In addition to a public reading and discussion about her recent book, Cram taught a class for MFA students called Writing the Body.
August 5, 2025
Brianna Fero Publishes on Gendered Violence in The CROW
Brianna Fero, a graduate student in UW Bothell’s Master of Arts in Policy Studies program, recently published her essay “Echoing Across a Nation: The New Wave of Gendered Terrorism in the United States” in the 10th volume of The CROW, the university’s interdisciplinary journal. Originally written in Dr. Julie Shayne’s Power of Feminist Writing course,...
June 23, 2025
Julie Shayne publishes paper about The Feminist Digital Center
Dr. Julie Shayne, Tessa Denton, and Denise Hattwig have a new paper out in the open access Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Their paper, “Feminist Digital Center: Building an Online Hub for Undergraduate Feminist Scholarship,” is about their co-created website. Tessa (GWSS & CLA alumna), Denise (Head of Digital Scholarship), and Julie worked collaboratively to build...
June 23, 2025
Celebrating recent achievements from IAS Faculty Adam Romero
Adam Romero gives the George Perkins Marsh Lecture at Clark University Adam Romero recently gave the George Perkins Marsh Lecture at Clark University. The lecture series exposes faculty and students to contemporary research on human-environment interactions. His talk, Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food (1945-1985), explored the linkages between national agricultural policy,...
June 23, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Leads Seminar for Washington Coastal Hazards Resilience Network
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson led a seminar for Washington Coastal Hazards Resilience Network (CHRN) and Washington Sea Grant focusing on Grief and Hope in a Climate Weary World. The talk drew participants from CHRN’s wide network, including coastal practitioners from local governments, state and federal agencies, Tribes, consulting/engineering firms, researchers, and many others who...
June 10, 2025
Celebrating the Recent Achievements of IAS Faculty Shannon Cram
Shannon Cram presents at University of Oregon IAS faculty member Shannon Cram gave a public talk at the University of Oregon in February, as part of a year-long lecture and film series about nuclear industry in the United States and Japan. In March, she gave a related guest lecture in a UO history class called...
June 10, 2025
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