News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Cultural Studies
Ching-In Chen publishes “Dumpling-Making Kin”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s creative nonfiction essay "Dumpling-Making Kin" was published in the South Seattle Emerald. The South Seattle Emerald was founded as a platform that amplifies the voice and experience of South Seattle by authentically depicting ...
February 17, 2021
Jed Murr: Teaching ethnic studies here and in Slovenia
During a sabbatical originally planned as a teaching Fulbright in Slovenia, IAS faculty member Jed Murr is working on a project funded with a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant. As part of a larger Black Arts Northwest collaboration with scholars, librarians and archivists, Murr is creating a digital history platform. Part of the platform will be a website about a Black Power mural in Seattle that was created in the early 1970s and destroyed in the 1990s. Another project would digitize Black periodicals published in Seattle and make them publicly accessible.
February 9, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...
February 5, 2021
Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “The general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. These policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”
January 27, 2021
Bruce Burgett co-edits essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited, with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), a dossier of essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and their aftermath. “Keywords Now” contains brief elaborations of essays published in the third edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, also co-edited by Burgett and Hendler. The elaborations focus on the keywords conservatism ...
January 22, 2021
Kristin Gustafson publishes article on white supremacist coup
The Conversation published an article co-authored by IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson and Kathy Roberts Forde comparing the 1898 Wilmington coup and the 2021 U.S. Capitol siege for its politics/election section. “A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies” builds on Journalism & Jim Crow ...
January 19, 2021
Meshell Sturgis awarded 2021 AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Meshell Sturgis was selected as a 2021 recipient for the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). This award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and ...
January 14, 2021
Acclaimed photojournalist David Ryder documents 2020
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies alum David Ryder (’11) has been working non-stop. An independent Seattle photographer and filmmaker, Ryder’s portfolio includes extensive experience with wildfires, disaster zones, protests, and hurricane coverage. 2020 was his busiest year yet.
January 6, 2021
Ching-In Chen receives 2020 BIPOC Seed Grant Award on Intersectional Sustainability
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded a BIPOC Seed Grant on Intersectional sustainability: Imagining solutions to racial and environmental injustices from the University of Washington Resilience Lab in partnership with the Campus Sustainability Fund. The seed grants support resilience and compassion building initiatives that foster connection and community, educate the UW community and spark dialogue. The selected projects proposed solutions to environmental and societal problems that have a disproportionately negative impact on ...
December 18, 2020
Shana Lee Hirsch publishes Anticipating Future Environments
M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Shana Lee Hirsch has published a new monograph, Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin, with University of Washington Press. In this book, Hirsch tells the story of restoration science in the Columbia River Basin, surveying its past and detailing the work of today’s salmon habitat restoration efforts. Her analysis ...
December 16, 2020