News from the School of IAS
Naomi Bragin has received two City of Seattle awards for Grief Rituals project
Naomi Bragin has received two City of Seattle awards for Grief Rituals, a new project which will bring a series of arts practice workshops and community ceremonies to the Chinatown International District in 2026. Grief Rituals addresses the theme of migration through collective experiences of grieving and healing. The project has won support from Seattle’s...
September 29, 2025
Dr. Price presents a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences
Dr. Becca Price presented a talk titled “Scientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs” to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle. Invited by the Community Organizers of Genome Sciences, Dr. Price spoke about connections among curriculum development, faculty affairs, and research on teaching and learning. She connected...
September 29, 2025
Kari Lerum leads workshops on Sexuality, Politics & Faith at Holden Village
For a week in late August, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum served as a discussion facilitator at Holden Village, a spiritual retreat center in the North Cascades. Organized under the theme of “Sexuality, Politics, and Faith,” Lerum’s workshops explored how faith communities in the U.S. intersect with policies around gender, sex education, family & reproductive...
September 29, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Climate Keynote Talk at Ewha Women’s University and the University of Exeter
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote address on climate storytelling at the 2025 Ewha-Exeter Symposium on “Hope amid Crisis: Recognition, Resilience, and Renewal.” The 2025 conference was co-hosted by the English departments of Ewha Women’s University (South Korea) and the University of Exeter (UK), and featured presentations exploring how hope—often situated within crisis—emerges in literary and...
September 29, 2025
Tang presents at the 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. The presentation, titled “Rethink the Digital Cold War: The political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures”, revisits the “digital Cold War” framework by examining three case studies on the...
September 29, 2025
William Hartmann publishes on psychological anthropology and Native American Peoples
William Hartmann published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology that compares recent ethnographic and Indigenous scholarship about psychosocial well-being among Native American Peoples. Taking popular critiques of anthropological research by Beatrice Medicine and Vine Deloria Jr. as an evaluative framework (abstract theory leads to abstract action, community control over research, relational approaches...
September 29, 2025
Recent UWB Alums Publish Systematic Review on Representations of Indigeneity in the Mental Health Literature
Recent UW Bothell alums Jeremie Walls and Mikyla Sakurai published a systematic review of how Indigeneity (i.e., what it means to be Indigenous) has been routinely misrepresented in recent mental health research publications about suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together...
September 29, 2025
Min Tang publishes about the TikTok controversy and information geopolitics
Dr. Min Tang publishes a new paper about the high-profile and still unfolding TikTok melodrama on Chinese Journal of Communication. The co-authored paper, Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states, highlights the increasing entanglement between the state interest and technology industry in the United States. While the popular short-video app downplays its...
September 29, 2025
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data”
Jin-Kyu Jung and a former IAS faculty member, Ted Hiebert, have published a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data,” in the Environment and Planning F journal. Sharing one of the critical moments in an interdisciplinary collaboration between an urban geographer/planner and a visual artist, they provide an example of a playful data intervention conducted...
September 29, 2025
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
