IAS News

As a 2019-20 Environmental Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow for Seattle Globalist, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) examined the threats of climate change and pollution to marine subsistence harvesting. In their article “Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribes," published in the South Seattle Emerald, Lee discusses ...

IAS faculty member Dan Berger, together with University of Nevada Reno historian Emily Hobson, published a book of writings by US social movements in the late twentieth century. The anthology is called Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 and ...

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) together with classmates Savita Krishnamoorthy (Cultural Studies, ’20) and Mateo Ochoa (Cultural Studies, ’19) in 2019. 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 ...