IAS News

IAS faculty member Kevin Y. Kim presented, in early November, at the 10th anniversary conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History in Chicago. His paper, titled “America’s Ideas, America’s Wars,” argues that New Right conservatism arose from Old Right conservatism, but only as an array of contested internationalist visions, which competed for influence from World War II to the Vietnam War. From World War II to the Korean War, conservatives— who anticipated the powerful rein of conservatives today ...

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries" at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Columbus, Ohio. The panel explored Latinx modernisms as a set of challenges both to modernist studies broadly construed and to Latinx studies internally. Padilla argued for the importance of the Spanish-language press in ...

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson‘s newest column pays tribute to the mentoring and legacy of her master’s adviser, Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia. The piece, “Hazel Dicken-Garcia Continues to Give to Her Students,” is published in Clio: Among the Media. In it, Gustafson reflects on four things: the community Dicken-Garcia created, how Dicken-Garcia shaped Gustafson’s path as a scholar, the meaning of physical things Dicken-Garcia passed on, and the reach of Dicken-Garcia’s financial gift to the Division.  Gustafson publishes the column as ...

This fall IAS alumni Markus Smith and Kelsey Bolinger met with students in IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s Capstone Portfolio course to share their career pathways. Smith is a Human Resources (HR) Recruiter for SNBL USA, a local biotechnology firm. While a student at UW Bothell, Markus worked as an assistant career advisor in Career Services and as ...

IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women of Montana State University. In celebrating Montana State University’s 125th anniversary, the President’s Commission on the Status of University is honoring women leaders, problem solvers and innovators from today and throughout MSU’s history. The 125 honorees were ...