News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela receive Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant
IAS faculty members Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela have received a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant from the UW Diversity Council to launch a diversity and inclusion graduate student questionnaire to be sent to alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2020. Survey will assess perceptions of ...
September 25, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks to international audiences on climate change and mental health
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke to audiences in the U.S., Germany, and Canada as part of a 2020 speaking series on climate change and mental health. Her talks were featured at the Festival of Live Digital Art in Toronto, the Aspen Institute's Future Leaders Climate Summit, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, the City of Bellevue's virtual Earth Day event, and Edmonds Community College's 2020 Triton Talk series. Atkinson's presentations highlighted ...
September 23, 2020
Kristin Gustafson publishes “Reporting today, with yesterday’s context”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson, along with co-authors Nicholas Hirshon (William Paterson University) and Lori Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee), published “Reporting today, with yesterday's context” in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). The article addresses the role of historical reporting and "turning to history for perspective" in covering today's news. CJR is a magazine for journalists and ...
September 22, 2020
Alka Kurian: Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and model minority discourse
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian had a busy summer! She gave virtual lectures in June and September on "Youth, Education, Gender, and Human Rights in India" to students of the Foreign Services Institute, and presented a virtual paper entitled “Growing Up South Asian in America Today” at the University of Lucknow, India. She also participated in virtual ...
September 16, 2020
Ching-In Chen poem included in Alone Together anthology
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Dear O” was selected for inclusion in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. All proceeds will benefit indie booksellers via The Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Chen was also profiled as ...
September 9, 2020
Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures
IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. The article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...
September 9, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk Talks Writing and Nourishment at Entropy
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was interviewed this past spring by Danielle Susi for Entropy's Dinnerview, a column in which writers discuss food as it relates to their work, identity, and writing practice. Borsuk touches on how becoming a parent has rewired her relationship to food, reveals her own food quirks and favorites, and ...
September 8, 2020
Kristin Gustafson organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...
September 8, 2020
Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins have launched a UW-wide Imagining Trans Futures research group. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group support trans scholars in their research and writing and to bring trans studies scholars to the UW community through a speaker series open to the public. The aim of this group is ...
September 4, 2020
Becca Price: “Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM”
IAS faculty member Becca Price published an article about a workshop that helps end discrimination against women in university science. Attendees learn how to recognize discrimination against women—and how to intervene when they see it. The workshop focuses on four case studies about gendered microaggressions, intersectional ...
September 4, 2020