IAS News

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. The University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...

In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured in an article on climate grief on NBC News.  The article, "'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change," cites Atkinson’s seminar as one of the few nationally to take up this important issue.

IAS alum Simone de Rochefort (’13, Culture, Literature & the Arts) produces videos for Polygon, a top website for video game news and reviews. While her affinity for video games began long before college, the possibility of building a career around this passion crystalized at UW Bothell. “I would not be where I am today ...

IAS faculty members Minda Martin, Alka Kurian, Susan Harewood, and Masahiro Sugano are organizing the first annual UW Bothell film and media festival. The festival, entitled Resilient Visions, will take place on May 30th, 2019. Organized by internationally known filmmakers and IAS professors of film and media studies, this festival brings together films and media production from UW Bothell students and alumni. Members of the UW Bothell community (graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni) who have made media productions from 2017-2019 are invited to submit to the festival by April 15th, 2019.