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

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

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