News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Julie Shayne and Dave Ellenwood Co-present Paper at Northwest Archivist Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne and librarian Dave Ellenwood presented a paper titled “Feminist Pedagogy and Critical Information Literacy: University of Washington Bothell’s Social Justice and Diversity Archive” at this year’s Northwest Archivist Conference in Seattle. Shayne and Ellenwood discussed the Social Justice and Diversity Archive (SJDA) which they co-created with Denise Hattwig and Kara Adams.
May 2, 2016
Amaranth Borsuk and Shauna Carlisle Win Worthington Distinguished Scholar Awards
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Shauna Carlisle received Worthington Distinguished Scholar awards for 2016-17. Borsuk will use the funding to support her completion of her book manuscript, The Book (under contract with MIT Press). Carlisle will devote her time to a study of African and Afro-Caribbean chronic health.
May 2, 2016
Ben Gardner Presents at Conference on “Elite Discourse” in Bern, Switzerland
IAS faculty member Ben Gardner presented a paper and participated in a round table conference on “Elite Discourse” in Bern, Switzerland co-organized by IAS affiliate faculty member Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. The interdisciplinary round table brought together ...
April 26, 2016
Recent Article by Becca Price Named as “Editor’s Choice” in Science
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez had their recently published article, “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms,” named as an “editor’s choice” in the April 15 issue of Science. The recognition calls ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Present at the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium
Three IAS faculty members presented at 2016 Teaching and Learning Symposium. Ursula Valdez presented “Assessing Group Dynamics and Efficiency of Collaborative Assignments” in collaboration with Jeff Jensen from STEM, and “From Cascades to Andes: A Collaborative Online International Learning Experience”. ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
IAS has hired eleven new faculty members for 2016-17 across fields including arts practice, community psychology, ethnic studies, law & policy, literature, writing & rhetoric. Short bios for each are found below:
April 25, 2016
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett Discuss Public Humanities at Gonzaga University
IAS Director of Graduate Studies Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett visited Gonzaga University to discuss public humanities. Bartha delivered an invited talk on “Projects, Partners, Publics: Designs for an Engaged Humanities,” while Burgett ...
April 14, 2016
Dan Berger Speaks on Black Radicals and the Law and Prison Organizing
Dan Berger participated in a roundtable on "Black Radicals and the Law" at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. During the conference, the OAH announced that Berger was appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program ...
April 12, 2016
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner, Jin-Kyu Jung, Santiago Lopez, and Adam Romero present research at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco
Five IAS faculty members presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, March 29 - April 2. Christian Anderson presented a paper on “performative infrastructure as an urban social force” as part of a session called “outside the wage: spaces, politics, possibilities.” Ben Gardner ...
April 12, 2016
Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on “Making Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion” at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology conference. Shayne's contribution to the session was “University Presses and Activist Scholarship/Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas.” Jade Power-Sotomayor presented ...
April 4, 2016