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Jennifer Atkinson presents on climate hope at Berklee College of Music

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was a Visiting Artist at Berklee College of Music in March 2026, where she facilitated a discussion and presentation on “Radical Hope as Resistance.” Drawing on her teaching and research on the emotional dimensions of climate change, Atkinson highlighted ways that choosing hope—and rejecting narratives of inevitable ecological and political...

March 6, 2026

Julie Shayne presents at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter conference

Dr. Julie Shayne attended the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) winter meeting and participated in two sessions. She was an invited speaker on a session organized by the Professional Development committee called “On Leaving the Tenure Track without a Plan.” The discussion focused on career transitions and alternatives to traditional academic trajectories. She also...

February 10, 2026

Shannon Cram presents at the Atomic Photographers Guild

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented to the Atomic Photographers Guild about environmental cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She was joined by photographer, architect, and guild member Harley Cowan who shared documentary images of Hanford’s B Reactor, T plant, and other historic buildings on site. The Atomic Photographers Guild is “an international collective of...

January 27, 2026

Adam Romero publishes a review of Chemical Geographies scholarship

IAS faculty member Adam Romero recently published a review of Chemical Geographies scholarship. Chemical Geographies is a loose body of literature that moves beyond the impact of chemicals from a singularly environmental or toxicological perspective to explore how chemistry and chemicals lie at heart of what it means to be human today.

January 27, 2026

Kari Lerum publishes in special forum on Femme Interiorities

Kari Lerum recently published an article entitled “Made again Femme” for an invited forum on Femme Interiorities in the journal Society & Space. The forum features experimental writing from scholars meditating on the spatial metaphor of “interiority” as it applies to femininity and femme identity. Lerum’s contribution transports femme from a relational reference to Femme...

December 15, 2025

Becca Price delivers keynote address

Dr. Becca Price presented a keynote address, entitled “Applying asset-based approaches to science teaching and faculty collegiality” at the annual meeting of the Washington College Chemistry Teachers Association. “This was a wonderful opportunity to talk to folks who teach intro chem,” said Price, “a series of courses in which students learn foundational science skills in...

October 24, 2025

Min Tang publishes about the TikTok controversy and information geopolitics

Dr. Min Tang publishes a new paper about the high-profile and still unfolding TikTok melodrama on Chinese Journal of Communication. The co-authored paper, Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states, highlights the increasing entanglement between the state interest and technology industry in the United States. While the popular short-video app downplays its...

September 29, 2025

Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project

Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. The book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers...

August 21, 2025