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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
Shannon Cram publishes about storytelling and embodiment in River Teeth
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published an essay in River Teeth, a journal of creative nonfiction. The piece recounts one of her grandfather’s tall tales of survival during World War II and considers the meaning of intergenerational embodiment.
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
Amaranth Borsuk contributes to an artistic game of Telephone
Amaranth Borsuk recently published a piece in to Telephone, an artists' game in which contributors are sent an anonymous work of art.
October 13, 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
Jennifer Atkinson Talks Climate at San Francisco Public Library
Jennifer Atkinson gave a book talk at San Francisco Public Library as part of July’s Everybody’s Climate series, a program meant to inspire participants to take action for a more just and sustainable future. In her talk, Grief & Hope in a Burning World: Strategies for Climate Resilience Atkinson discussed how addressing climate challenges requires...
August 5, 2025
IAS faculty Shannon Cram is a Visiting Writer at Eastern Oregon University
IAS professor Shannon Cram served as a visiting writer at Eastern Oregon University’s New Nature Writing Conference, a project of the school’s MFA program in Creative Writing. In addition to a public reading and discussion about her recent book, Cram taught a class for MFA students called Writing the Body.
August 5, 2025
Brianna Fero Publishes on Gendered Violence in The CROW
Brianna Fero, a graduate student in UW Bothell’s Master of Arts in Policy Studies program, recently published her essay “Echoing Across a Nation: The New Wave of Gendered Terrorism in the United States” in the 10th volume of The CROW, the university’s interdisciplinary journal. Originally written in Dr. Julie Shayne’s Power of Feminist Writing course,...
June 23, 2025
Julie Shayne publishes paper about The Feminist Digital Center
Dr. Julie Shayne, Tessa Denton, and Denise Hattwig have a new paper out in the open access Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Their paper, “Feminist Digital Center: Building an Online Hub for Undergraduate Feminist Scholarship,” is about their co-created website. Tessa (GWSS & CLA alumna), Denise (Head of Digital Scholarship), and Julie worked collaboratively to build...
June 23, 2025
