News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Howard Hsu publishes article and video on climate change’s impact on salmon

IAS faculty member Howard Hsu published a video and news article for Climate Nexus / Nexus Media on climate change and the impact on threatened salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The video and article examine how warmer summers have been killing salmon before they can reproduce over the last few years ...

January 28, 2019

Melanie Malone wins an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award. The awards are single-year grants intended to support action-oriented and publicly-focused collaborations between academics, students, and non-academic activists. Malone will be assessing homeless populations' exposure to potentially harmful contaminants by sampling contaminants in homeless rest areas in several cities across the U.S.

January 15, 2019

Book chapter by Toft published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft has published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!” in the edited volume, “Doing Politics. Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse” published by John Benjamins in 2018. The book brings together selected articles from a 2017 conference on “Political Discourse” in the UK. In the chapter, Toft presents a ...

January 15, 2019

Toft awarded top paper for “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft presented two papers at the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, one of which – “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!” – received the Top Paper award in the Communication as Social Construction division. Building on earlier exploratory research on the Civil Rights movement as narrative bridge, the paper argues ...

January 15, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk reviews Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk reviews Nguyen's first book of poems, Ghost Of, in Lana Turner 11. Combining lyric reflections and visual poetry in invented forms, Nguyen's book explores the after-effects of her brother's suicide, which was preceded by his careful excision of himself from family photos in her parents' home. The gaps left behind become frames or nets in which Nguyen's language is caught as she tries to reconstruct her missing sibling. Borsuk writes:

January 14, 2019

Melanie Malone publishes an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment. The article considers the relation between no-till agriculture and herbicide use. It deploys multiple methods – spatial analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery of vegetation health along streams; use of a drone fitted with an agricultural camera to detect vegetation health; and soil, sediment, and water sampling for the most commonly used herbicides in the study area – to show where stream vegetation health continues to ...

January 2, 2019

Dan Berger publishes introduction to new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. The University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...

January 2, 2019

Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority reviewed

In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...

January 2, 2019