News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jin-Kyu Jung Promoted to Associate Professor
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has been tenured and promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor in IAS at UW Bothell. Jung arrived at IAS in 2010, moving from an Assistant Professor position at the University of North Dakota. His scholarship focuses on ...
February 24, 2016
Benjamin Gardner Publishes Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
IAS faculty member Benjamin Gardner published Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism as part of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series at the University of Georgia Press. The book examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation ...
February 19, 2016
Interactive Artworks by IAS Faculty Amaranth Borsuk and micha cárdenas Included in Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3
The Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 3 (ELC3) continues the legacy begun by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in 2006 of curating and archiving electronic literature, which the editors define as "the artistic engagement of digital media and language." The ELC3 comprises ...
February 19, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Receive I-DISCO Seed Funding for Research Initiatives
A total of 19 IAS faculty members received I-DISCO seed funding to support a variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and development efforts. (I-DISCO stands for “Initiative to Development Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Collaboration.” Launched in 2012, I-DISCO funding was reviewed by a task force last year, and formalized, with a charge to assess and publicize its outcomes. Funding categories, and recipients, for 2016-2017 are as follows:
February 17, 2016
Karam Dana Speaks on American Muslim Political Behavior and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
IAS faculty member and Director of the American Muslims Research Institute, Karam Dana has just returned from the Boston area where he delivered two talks at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on the Palestinian nationalist narrative and on American Muslim political behavior.
February 10, 2016
Alka Kurian Presents at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented "Transnational Strategies of Resistance" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) in Portland, Oregon. This paper discussed women's participation in the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996-2006) with the view to examining the potential emancipatory possibilities it held for them.
February 8, 2016
Becca Price Publishes Suggestions for how to Update Teaching Evolution
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez published “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms.” Based on research conducted at several colleges and universities, the article suggests ...
February 3, 2016
Mira Shimabukuro Publishes Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro published a new book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, with the University of Colorado Press. The book explores the ways Japanese Americans continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II.
February 1, 2016
Georgia Roberts Collaborates on Macklemore’s “White Privilege II”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts was a community collaborator on Macklemore's new song "White Privilege II." The song is a result of an ongoing dialogue among musicians, activists, and teachers.
January 29, 2016
Rob Turner Principal Investigator on Stormwater Management Grant
A group of IAS faculty and students under the leadership of Rob Turner has received a grant from the Green Seed Fund Project to develop best management practices for campus stormwater. The project has been funded at $62,586 and will work to help preserve the North Creek Wetlands by ...
January 27, 2016