News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Taking contamination out of community gardens
Melanie Malone, an IAS faculty member who researches contaminants in urban gardens, teamed up with community partners to test and remediate soil in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, where residents could use some healthy produce. Malone and community partners received a Population Health Equity Research Grant to sample soil at gardens in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. It’s close to the Duwamish River Superfund site, designated for a special federal cleanup program because of a century of industrial pollution.
November 17, 2020
Bruce Burgett publishes Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett published Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition with New York University Press. Co-edited with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the print-digital volume includes 114 essays, 64 in print and 48 online. The Keywords website also includes pedagogical materials to support instructors who teach print or online essays in their courses.
November 17, 2020
Maryam Griffin publishes “Transcending Enclosures by Bus”
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published “Transcending Enclosures by Bus: Public Transit Protests, Frame Mobility, and the Many Facets of Colonial Occupation” in Critique of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue called “Occupations in Context: The Cultural Logics of Occupation, Settler Violence, and Resistance,” co-edited by ...
November 10, 2020
Julie Shayne presents paper at Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels symposium
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS” at the Critical Border Crossing symposium. Shayne’s paper was about her new book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.
November 9, 2020
Becca Price publishes on collaboration with the Pacific Science Center
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the School of STEM and Dr. Eva Ma from UW Tacoma, published an article about a collaboration between the UW and Pacific Science Center. Price is the Executive Director of STEP-WISE, a program in which postdoctoral fellows in scientific fields learn how to teach ...
November 4, 2020
Shannon Cram: “A Good Day to Die”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece in the literary journal River Teeth. Cram's mini essay, "A Good Day to Die," appeared in the journal's "Beautiful Things" series, a weekly online publication featuring, "very brief nonfiction that finds beauty in the everyday."
November 2, 2020
Dan Berger publishes in Colin Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes an article in "Abolition for the People," a month-long series edited by Colin Kaepernick and appearing in Medium. Coauthored with UC President's Postdoctoral fellow David Stein, the article examines the policy agenda of police and prison abolitionists. "Police and prisons uphold the world that is ...
October 30, 2020
Jin-Kyu Jung speaks on regeneration of railway land in Busan, Korea
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a panelist in the Busan-SEMAPA Joint International Seminar on “Innovative Regeneration of Railway Land,” held in Busan, Korea. Jung discussed several interwoven forms of innovation in both SEMAPA’s “Paris Rive Gauche” urban regeneration project and Busan’s new urban railway land redevelopment plan and the inclusive and innovative urban transformation strategies for the City of Busan.
October 28, 2020
Jin-Kyu Jung publishes “Teaching creative geovisualization”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a paper, “Teaching creative geovisualization: Imagining the creative in/of GIS” in The Canadian Geographer. This paper situates creative geovisualization at the intersection of geography, arts, and digital humanities with a particular emphasis on visualization and mapping that preserves, represents, and generates more authentic, contextual, and nuanced meanings of ...
October 27, 2020
Denise Vaughan discusses the difference between the presidential debate and academic debate (KOMO news)
IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan was interviewed by KOMO news sports reporter Bill Swartz about the UW Bothell Speech and Debate team and the upcoming Presidential Debate. The discussion (listen here) focused on difference between academic debate and what we see on the Presidential Debates where interruptions are frequent, as well as how the UW Bothell team has adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 23, 2020