News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Karam Dana named first Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professorship of Transformative Research
IAS faculty member Karam Dana has been approved by the UW Regents as the holder of the “Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professorship of Transformative Research.” He will hold the professorship for the next five years, renewable for another term depending on funding. Dana's research agenda concerns ...
April 14, 2021
Camille Walsh: “’Taxpayer dollars’ — the origins of austerity’s racist catchphrase”
IAS faculty member Camille Walsh published “'Taxpayer dollars' — the origins of austerity’s racist catchphrase” in MotherJones.com. “The phrase 'taxpayer dollars,'” Walsh writes, “has a populist, even democratic ring to it. Gone are the days when we referred to the treasury as 'the king’s purse' or ...
April 6, 2021
Becca Price presents webinar on the anatomy of a research study
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleagues Clark Coffman (Iowa State), Jenn Thompson (University of Georgia), Danielle Thompson-Ryan (Laramie County Community College) presented a webinar in the series Online with LSE. Their webinar was titled Exploring the anatomy of a research study: Behind the scenes of a qualitative research study with strong theoretical framing. ...
April 2, 2021
Margaret Redsteer gives keynote talk for Annual Symposium on Indigenous Knowledge
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer provided the inaugural keynote talk for the Annual Symposium on Indigenous Knowledge at Utah State University on March 19, 2021. The presentation "Earth Science, Indigenous knowledge, and Tribal Sovereignty" discussed how science on Indigenous lands is linked to moving Native communities toward a future of ...
April 2, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson gives keynote talk at CSU Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote talk at Chico State University’s This Way to Sustainability Conference where she addressed the rise in fear, anxiety and despair in the face of our climate crisis. Recent research shows that 26% of adults in the U.S. now characterize climate change as “alarming” (Yale Program on Climate Communication, 2020). Atkinson noted that ...
April 1, 2021
Ted Hiebert co-hosts 2021 World Telekinesis Competition
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert co-hosted the 2021 World Telekinesis Competition, an organized tournament in which teams from around the world compete to influence the behavior of a candle, using the power of their minds alone. 16 teams from around the world ...
March 31, 2021
UW Bothell ranked a top Fulbright institution
The University of Washington Bothell continues to be recognized for producing Fulbright scholars, with three IAS faculty members receiving recent awards. They include Alka Kurian, who will conduct research on transnational fourth wave feminisms in Morocco; Jed Murr, who will teach ethnic American literature in Slovenia; and David Goldstein, who will teach American studies in Japan.
March 24, 2021
Shauna Elbers Carlisle selected to join William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative and Computational Scholars
IAS faculty member Shauna Elbers Carlisle will be part of the new William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative and Computational (AQC) Scholars Cohort. The AQC Cohort is a highly-competitive National Science Foundation program that gathers scholars who are seeking to transform their professions and research through critical data science methodologies. Carlisle brings to the cohort ...
March 24, 2021
Alka Kurian on “The Golden Age of Social Protest: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian gave an invited talk on “The Golden Age of Social Protest: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism” as part of the “ishq: issues in society, history, and queerness” series at Ashoka University in Delhi, India. The talk focused on ...
March 18, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new book and participates in Virtual New York Art Book Fair
This month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk publishes The Book: 101 Definitions, a collection of responses to the question What is the/a book?, which she posed to artists, poets, bookbinders, librarians, publishers, and booksellers. Published by Montreal artist's book publisher Anteism on the occasion of Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair, the book is ...
March 16, 2021