News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS Dean Brinda Sarathy cares for our community
For Brinda Sarathy, becoming the new dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell felt like a calling. When she saw the open position, she was struck by the school’s goal to create lasting partnerships “that are socially-just and committed to finding environmentally-sustainable options for the development of ...
October 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “In Seattle city attorney race, beware of ‘rising crime’ alarmism”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Crosscut on the Seattle city attorney race. Berger discussed the race between abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Republican Ann Davison in the context of progressive prosecutors in other cities around the country.
October 18, 2021
Julie Shayne presents at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference
In honor of her new book, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session titled “50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Book.” On the (zoom) panel, she presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS.”
October 15, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung presents research on the limits of crowdfunding data
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung co-presented an ongoing collaborative work with Nora Kenworthy at School of Nursing and Health Studies at the 2021 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting. Their paper, "Knowing through undoing: Creative, collaborative, and disruptive strategies for remaking and unmapping public knowledge about crowdfunding platforms," ...
October 15, 2021
Bruce Burgett presents on “Creating Critical Field Formations”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett presented as part of a roundtable on “Creating Critical Field Formations: Keywords for African American Studies, American Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies” at the 2021 American Studies Association conference. He was joined by ...
October 13, 2021
Ching-In Chen published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum/a birthright” was published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Temple University Press. This hybrid writing was originally published in recombinant ...
October 13, 2021
Karam Dana speaks at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated recently in the annual banquet of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization. Dana was one of the scholars invited to discuss ...
October 7, 2021
Dan Berger speaks on “Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a virtual talk at Wellesley College. Berger's talk, "Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History," was the inaugural event of a ...
October 6, 2021
Karam Dana on public opinion in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave two lectures showcasing some of his research findings this month. The first was titled “Palestinian Public Opinion: The Role of the US, and the Making of Future Policy” and was part of the Diplomacy Roundtable organized by the Seattle Rotary Club. The second ...
September 29, 2021
David Stokes: Saving all the pieces
IAS faculty member David Stokes and others published Saving all the pieces: an inadequate conservation strategy for an endangered amphibian in an urbanizing area in the journal Biological Conservation. The paper reports on the results of a long-term (19 year) study of the federally endangered Sonoma population of the California tiger salamander in the rapidly urbanizing ...
September 28, 2021