News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Yolanda Padilla and Amoshaun Toft were officially notified by the UW Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure). Congratulations Yolanda and Amoshaun!!!
January 10, 2020
Melanie Malone awarded Royalty Research Fund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone received a Royalty Research Fund (RRF) of $39,993 for her research on contaminant sources in organic urban community gardens. Building off her pilot project on contamination in soils in urban community gardens in Seattle, WA and Brooklyn, NY, the RRF will allow Malone to ...
January 8, 2020
Seattle Human Rights Day features student research and Abigail Echo-Hawk
For several years, students of the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar have participated in Seattle Human Rights Day by presenting their human rights research at the pre-program reception. The 2019 event was particularly special, as Abigail Echo-Hawk, both an IAS and D.C. Seminar alum, was a featured speaker in the main program, “Amplifying Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples’ Voices.”
January 7, 2020
Ching-In Chen: “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred” was selected by guest curator Meg Day for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The series initially began as one-hundred-word segments, which were braided to evoke the ghostly dislocations and detachments of relocating from Houston to Seattle. You can ...
January 6, 2020
Maryam Griffin receives Society of Scholars Fellowship
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has been awarded a Society of Scholars fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This fellowship will support Griffin's work on her research project “Vehicles of Decolonization: Politics and Public Transportation in the Palestinian West Bank.” Griffin will join ...
January 2, 2020
Ching-In Chen publishes two poems in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published the poems “Self-Portrait, Cannibal/Reversal/Break In/Benediction” and “Self-Portrait, Shipping Container/Driving Through Night/Jury” in the Radical Transnationalism: Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires issue of Meridians ...
January 2, 2020
Lambacher on ecological nostalgia at Pacific Northwest Political Science Conference
AS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented a paper currently being worked on for publication at the PNW Political Science conference in Boise, ID in November 2019. The paper argues technological, cultural, and environmental change has produced a world that is awash in nostalgia for what has vanished or is threatened with disappearance. But while nostalgia is pervasive ...
December 23, 2019
Ching-In Chen publishes “15” in Lavender Review
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published “15,” from the hybrid series, Houston in Compilation, in Lavender Review’s December issue. Lavender Review is a literary journal published by Headmistress Press dedicated to lesbian poetry and art.
December 23, 2019
IAS faculty members receive funding to host speakers and events
This fall quarter 5 IAS faculty received funding to host speakers and events on campus. Jennifer Atkinson brought Tulalip storyteller and master wood carver Kelly Moses in October who spoke about the relationship between Salish people and the forests in our region; he also shared examples of his artwork. The event was co-sponsored by Social Justice Organizers (SJO) and the Diversity Center. Dan Berger will ...
December 19, 2019
Katherine Voyles reviews The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed Garrett Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Graff’s book is an expansion of his widely-read Politico article “We’re the Only Plane in the Sky,” a moment by moment account of Air Force One on 9/11.
December 19, 2019