News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Alka Kurian’s #MeToo article receives international attention

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's recently-published article on #MeToo - charting the rise of fourth wave feminism in India - was reprinted by many newspapers across the world including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the UK, India, Sri Lanka, and some countries in Africa. It was also ...

April 3, 2018

Julie Shayne organized two sessions and presents a paper at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies coordinator Julie Shayne organized two sessions at this year’s PSA conference. The first one was “The Feminist Classroom: Pedagogy, Student Research, and Film” where she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy and Collaboration: The Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA-WA).” The session also included a paper by Shayne’s former student and IAS alum Taylor Hiner (read by Julie in their absence.) Shayne and Hiner presented about the FCA-WA ...

April 2, 2018

Karam Dana lectures at Harvard on “The Future of Palestine and Palestinians”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture at Harvard University on March 20, 2018 titled “The Future of Palestine and Palestinians: Key Insights from Public Opinion and the Making of Future Policy.” The lecture examined the military occupation and conditions under which Palestinians are currently living. The lecture outlined the directions to which Palestinians have been headed based on a public opinion survey he conducted. The lecture also ...

March 30, 2018

Barbara Noah completes her Likely Stories series through a Hatchfund project

IAS faculty member Barbara Noah successfully undertook a Hatchfund project in support of a solo exhibition of the concluding work in her Likely Stories series, which will be shown at Davidson Galleries in 2019. The series features digital images of airborne metaphoric objects that allude to aspiration and transcendence, as well as the imperilment of both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial landscapes. Many of the images express the urgency of climate change, which has sparked recent cultural consideration of the colonization of other planets. The work also poses dichotomies between a search for meaning and the urge to escape from ...

March 26, 2018

IAS faculty promotions

IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Karam Dana, Becca Price, Mira Shimabukuro, Janelle Silva, and Camille Walsh have been promoted in rank. Atkinson and Shimabukuro were promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer. Dana, Silva, and Walsh were promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure), and Price was promoted from Associate to Full Professor.

March 23, 2018

Charlie Collins and Shelby Guidry publish in the Journal of Urban Affairs

IAS faculty member Charlie Collins and second year Master of Arts in Policy Studies student Shelby Guidry published a paper in the Journal of Urban Affairs titled, "What effect does inequality have on residents’ sense of safety? Exploring the mediating processes of social capital and civic engagement." The paper examines the role of economic inequality, social capital, and civic engagement on residents' perceptions of neighborhood safety. Collins and Guidry found that ...

March 19, 2018

Dan Berger delivers lecture on Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism

IAS faculty member Dan Berger deliverd a lecture at Niagara University. The talk, "Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism: 1960s and Now," discussed how movements against war, racism, and environmental catastrophe have evolved across recent American history. While in Buffalo, Berger also ...

March 19, 2018

Julie Shayne blogs in honor of International Women’s Day

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne was invited by the editors of State of Nature to ponder the question “What is the Biggest Challenge Facing Women Today?” as part of a blog in honor of International Women’s Day. Her response to that question argues that the current president of the US is women’s and femmes’ biggest challenge. She maintains “He [and his team] are responsible for emboldening a toxic cocktail of misogyny, racism, and xenophobia,” which ultimately translates into “the biggest obstacle women and femmes face in living with ...

March 8, 2018

Jin-Kyu Jung co-authors “A Hybrid Approach to Geotweets”

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a new book chapter with Jungyeop Shin, “A Hybrid Approach to Geotweets: Reading and Mapping Tweet Contexts on Marijuana Legalization and Same-Sex Marriage in Seattle, Washington.” The chapter, which appears in Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research, presents a new way of reflecting on various epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of geographic analysis of big data. It allows us to ...

March 8, 2018