News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Brinda Sarathy: Before Amazon
IAS faculty member and dean Brinda Sarathy recently published an article examining the “pre-history” of warehouses and logistics in inland Southern California prior to the birth of Amazon. Sarathy’s work traces the production of the Inland Empire’s logistics industry to the development of military installations, differentially incarcerated ...
September 27, 2021
Colin Danby publishes two articles on the history of political economy
IAS faculty member Colin Danby has published two new articles on development economics. The first is a biographical article on the Mexican economist Juan Noyola (1922-1962) for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ...
September 24, 2021
Bruce Burgett edits a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited (with Glenn Hendler, Fordham University) a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory.” Keywords Now is an extension of Burgett and Hendler’s co-edited Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. It is designed to explore ongoing shifts in the meanings of key terms that shape research, teaching, and thinking about complex social and cultural issues. The current cluster responds to right-wing attacks ...
September 24, 2021
IAS faculty receive international grant to study costal erosion
Former IAS Visiting Scholar Bo Ae Chun and IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Santiago Lopez have been awarded an international collaboration grant over $200,000 from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The 3-year project entitled “An International Comparative Study of Transnational Citizenship and Social Participation Competencies in the Post-COVID-19 Era” will focus on ...
September 22, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: 12 Women Scholars on undercitation of scholarship by women and people of color
12 Women Scholars, an environmental history writing group that includes IAS dean Brinda Sarathy, has issued a challenge to scholarly journals and presses. The group posted “A Disturbing Pattern” on the Inside Higher Ed website, exposing a pattern of inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color in ...
August 27, 2021
Margaret H. Redsteer named Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter lead for 5th National Climate Assessment
IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as the chapter lead for the Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Redsteer will work with Rachel Novak from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Climate Change Adaptation Program as the coordinating lead. Redsteer’s role as chapter lead includes ...
August 18, 2021
Testing soil for hidden contaminants in community gardens
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone's work on contamination in urban gardens and in the Duwamish Valley Research Coordination Network is featured on the UW News site. The story and video feature Malone teaching interns and community partners how to safely ...
July 28, 2021
Reducing harm and promoting justice for trans and intersex people
At the 2021 Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27) Biennial Conference, IAS students Jessica Belmont, Jordan Havlicek, and Luke Scott joined Reid Ellefson-Frank, another trans undergraduate student-researcher from Michigan State University, Yale post doc and LGBTQIA+ scholar Dani Chiaramonte, and IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty to talk about the experience engaging in participatory action research (PAR) in a session titled ...
July 19, 2021
IAS faculty organize and perform at “Still/Hear: A Healing Concert”
On Friday, May 14, 2021 IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali, Masahiro Sugano, and Naomi Macalalad Bragin co-organized alongside students of Global Media Lab a healing concert to demand an end to Anti-Asian violence. The healing concert titled “Still/Hear” was a response to the Asian American community's experiences of ...
July 9, 2021
Jeanne Heuving named Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving will be the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (UK) beginning Fall 2021 through Spring 2022. During her fellowship, Heuving will write a new book to add to her series of books that ...
July 6, 2021