News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger publishes op-ed on initiative to reduce the American jail population
IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes op-ed in Truthout about the MacArthur Foundation's $75 million initiative to reduce the American jail population. As part of that program, the Foundation has asked jail staff at 20 municipalities around the country to work with judges, prosecutors, court administrators, police and correctional officials to reduce the size of the jail population. In his op-ed...
July 9, 2015
Stuart Streichler presents on the fate of Guantánamo detainees at the Law and Society Association
IAS faculty member Stuart Streichler delivered a paper on "Guantánamo Detainees: A Decade of Rights without Remedy" at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Seattle.
July 9, 2015
Jill Freidberg, Nia Lam, and Denise Hattwig publish study on the Community Voices Collection
IAS faculty member Jill Freidberg, along with librarian Nia Lam and curator Denise Hattwig, have completed a study based on the Community Voices Collection, an archive of oral histories conducted by - and with - University of Washington Bothell students, staff, faculty, and community members.
July 9, 2015
Christian Anderson, Jin-Kyu Jung, and Santiago Lopez present at Association of American Geographers in Chicago
IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Jin-Kyu Jung, and Santiago Lopez presented their research at the 2015 meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago, Illinois.
July 9, 2015
Kari Lerum Publishes in The Feminist Wire and Moderates Panel at Sextravaganza
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published an essay in The Feminist Wire entitled “Cisgender FemmeNist reflections on Trans* Justice.” Drawing from personal, cultural, and political reflections the article calls for fans of trans* celebrities to move from adoration to action for trans* justice. Lerum also
July 9, 2015
Ben Gardner co-organizes “Extraction, Contention and Development” symposium
IAS faculty member Ben Gardner co-organized a symposium on “Extraction, Contention and Development,” along with colleagues Sunila Kale and Tony Lucero from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
July 9, 2015
Johanna Crane wins RRF Scholar Award, and gives invited talks on global health
IAS faculty member Johanna Crane received a UW Royalty Research Fund Scholar Award to support her new research project, "Aging and Health Care in Prison: An Ethnographic Study." She also...
July 9, 2015
Julie Shayne launches her new book Taking Risks
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne launched her new book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas at the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
July 9, 2015
Dan Berger Wins Organization of American Historians Book Prize
IAS faculty member Dan Berger won the 2015 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.
July 2, 2015
Kari Lerum Speaks in London and Publishes in Ms Magazine‘s Blog
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum delivered a paper at the Sexual Cultures 2 conference in London on "Building communities of (im)possibility: transgender sex workers & structural (re)humanization."
July 2, 2015