October 2020

Marcus Johnson is an M.A. in Cultural Studies alum (’16) and Ph.D. candidate at the UW Department of Communication. He recently co-authored the article “Black Cultural Studies is Intersectionality” with Dr. Ralina Joseph, which was published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. The article argues ...

Berette Macaulay (Cultural Studies, ’20) founded Black Cinema Collective (BCC) in 2019, developing and co-organizing all programming with classmates Mateó Ochoa (Cultural Studies, ’19) and Savita Krishnamoorthy (Cultural Studies, ’20), who joined in 2020. In February 2020, BCC facilitated public discussion of “Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA” at the Henry Art Gallery with director and visiting filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis.  Soon thereafter the COVID-19 pandemic closed public spaces for such gatherings ...

Berette Macaulay (M.A. in Cultural Studies, ’20) has been named to a new position, Museum Guide Program Manager, at the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle campus). In this new role, Macaulay will pilot and lead a new museum guide training program.  She will create curriculum that offers UW undergraduate students from multiple disciplines formal training from Henry staff, developing ...

IAS faculty member Neil Simpkins contributed “The Sticky Note Snap” to a symposium on “Enacting a Culture of Access in Our Conference Spaces” that appeared in College Composition and Communication.  This piece examines building access in academic conference spaces.

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “En Route Family,” “’Registration Marks’ or ‘a kind of breathing vocabulary on a daily level’ and “No” were published in Foglifter, a literary magazine focused on queer and trans writing which recently was awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Foglifter is a ...