News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson, Caren Crandell and Warren Gold: “A Sense of Place: Our Rapidly Urbanizing Environment”
On October 5, IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Caren Crandell, and Warren Gold participated in a panel at Bothell City Hall to discuss what it means to have a “sense of place” — both today and during the city’s early history. This event is part of ...
October 9, 2017
Alka Kurian publishes review of The Big Sick
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published “The Big Sick is Bold, Pushes Boundaries" in the International Examiner (6 September 2017, p. 14). Kurian suggests that this Pakistani diasporic film that has every one talking represents a new turn in South Asian representation in mainstream Hollywood film.
September 25, 2017
Kristin Gustafson publishes “Teaching excellence builds on the ideas of teaching mentors”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published "Teaching excellence builds on the ideas of teaching mentors" in Clio: Among The Media (Fall 2017, p. 10). The column shares with readers two teaching strategies--one a grading scheme, and the other a choice of in-depth projects--to surface best practices that encourage pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and justice. ...
September 22, 2017
S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy”
IAS faculty members S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy” in Berlin, Germany. Drawing on the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, they...
September 19, 2017
S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy”
IAS faculty members S. Charusheela and Colin Danby presented their research on “Decentering Race, Gender, and Class – Thinking Beyond Capitalism and Economy” in Berlin, Germany. Drawing on the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, they...
September 19, 2017
Shannon Cram presents her work on nuclear politics and policy
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented a paper about her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Life and the Politics of Impossibility, at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in Chicago in April.
September 19, 2017
Carrie Bodle selected for exhibition at the NY Hall of Science
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle exhibits two works from her Waveforms and Wavelines series at the New York Hall of Science as part of the Science Inspires Art: OCEAN exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations (ASCI) and co-juried by Diana Moore, D&R Greenway Art Galleries, and John Stegeman, Senior Scientist & Director at the Center of Ocean and Human Health at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The exhibition presents ...
September 12, 2017
Adam Romero co-edits newly published Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
IAS faculty member Adam Romero, in collaboration with S. Ravi Rajan and Michael Watts, is co-editor of Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken, recently released by The University of Virginia Press. In 1967, Clarence Glacken published Traces on the Rhodian Shore, considered one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. This volume collects previously unpublished works written by Glacken following the publication of Traces.
September 11, 2017
Amy Lambert’s work on the island marble butterfly featured on KCTS9
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert’s work on preserving and studying the island marble butterfly is featured in “A Climate Rescue Mission for Puget Sound’s Rare Butterfly” on the KCTS9 site. The article notes: “The island marble is considered one of the rarest butterflies in North America, only found in a small section of this island’s small national historic park.” Lambert is quoted in the article:
September 1, 2017
Kristin Gustafson co-moderates panel: “Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-moderated a teaching panel, "Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s," at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August with Susan Keith. The panel brought together efforts of the association's History Division and Newspaper and Online News Division. Gustafson and Keith said they organized the panel because too often the narratives of journalism and media history are the stories of people who had power in society and took what were considered to be relatively mainstream positions. The panelists shared ...
August 29, 2017