News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Santiago Lopez has three new publications on climate and land use
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung published “A hybrid-epistemological approach to climate change research: Linking scientific and smallholder knowledge systems in the Ecuadorian Andes” in the journal Anthropocene. Lopez also published “The socio-ecological systems of southeastern Ecuador: Processes and patterns of land use change,” in Nature and Society: Socio-Ecological perspectives on Global Changes in Latin America. Finally, Lopez and IAS alum, Christopher Wright and Paulette Costanza, published “Environmental change in the equatorial Andes: Linking climate, land use, and land cover transformations” in the journal Remote Sensing Applications: Environment and Society.
January 31, 2017
Silvia Ferreira publishes in Journal of Arabic Literature
IAS faculty member Silvia Ferreira published “Confessions and Indiscretions: Translating the Self in the Southern Mahjar” in the latest issue of the Journal of Arabic Literature...
January 12, 2017
Alka Kurian publishes “Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published "Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta's Feminist Quartet," in Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John's co-edited collection of essays Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema. In this chapter Kurian ...
January 3, 2017
Shannon Cram presents research on remediation at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was invited to the University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Society Program where she presented her research to the Science and Technology Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop and gave a guest lecture in Dr. Gabrielle Hecht's "Global Nuclear Proliferation" class. For both events ...
December 30, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Six IAS faculty members won Simpson Center for the Humanities awards in the fall 2016 funding round. Shannon Cram received a research fellowship as a member of the Society of Scholars to complete her book manuscript, “Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.” José Fusté, Jade Power-Sotomayor, and Dan Berger were all awarded Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships. Fusté and Jade Power-Sotomayor will work on “The Bomba Wiki Project: Oral, Aural, and Corporeal History and Community-Making through Bomba Music and Dance,” while Berger will ...
December 21, 2016
VIDEO: Alan Wood’s Encore! Lecture on history, yin-yang theory, and contemporary global challenges
IAS faculty member and UW Bothell founding faculty Alan Wood was the featured speaker for this year’s Encore! Lecture series. In advance of the talk, he spoke about the early years at UW Bothell, where, he said: “…something remarkable happened. We created what I believe was one of the first truly interdisciplinary institutions of higher education ever in the state of Washington.” He talks about his memories in the video below ...
December 20, 2016
Kristin Gustafson publishes award-winning paper on “Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre”
Visual Communication Quarterly published IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson's co-authored article, “Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre: Photographic and graphic images in Charlie Hedbo's newspaper front pages around the world,” in November. The article previously won second place top faculty paper for the Visual Communication Division when it was presented at the 2015 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The collaboration with Dr. Linda Jean Kenix examined 441 front-page images published in 367 newspapers on the day following the shooting in Paris of twelve people at or near the Charlie Hebdo office.
December 20, 2016
Peter Brooks presents approaches to teaching cultivated community spaces surrounding games
IAS faculty member Peter Brooks, along with his collaborator Kris Purzycki (UW Milwaukee), presented work on game-based pedagogy at the Computers & Writing (C&W) conference in Rochester, New York. They participated on a panel on "Approaches to Teaching Cultivated Community Spaces Surrounding Games." Peter's work focused ...
December 5, 2016
Karam Dana publishes and speaks on Palestinian identity and Muslims in America
IAS faculty member Karam Dana had a busy few weeks. His article, "Confronting injustice beyond borders: Palestinian identity and nonviolent resistance" was published in the Journal of Politics, Groups, and Identities. Dana was invited by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Michigan, where he gave two lectures, entitled: "Arab and Muslim Americans and the Politics of the 2016 US Election," and "Palestine and Palestinians in the 21st Century: Old Challenges and New Opportunities." Dana also ...
November 28, 2016
Dan Berger publishes on the ongoing history of opposition to racism and the American prison system
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published two pieces on the ongoing history of opposition to racism and the American prison system. He published an article in Jacobin magazine about the nationwide prison strike that took place this fall. The strike, which involved more than 20,000 participants across the country, builds on a rich history of protest against prison conditions. Berger was also one of five scholars from around the country to curate a "Prison Abolition Syllabus" for ...
November 22, 2016