News from the School of IAS

Category: Teaching

IAS faculty promotions

IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Karam Dana, Becca Price, Mira Shimabukuro, Janelle Silva, and Camille Walsh have been promoted in rank. Atkinson and Shimabukuro were promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer. Dana, Silva, and Walsh were promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure), and Price was promoted from Associate to Full Professor.

March 23, 2018

The Seattle Times features Jennifer Atkinson’s popular class on climate change

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s Spring 2018 course, “Environmental Grief and Climate Anxiety,” is the subject of a feature in The Seattle Times. The article, “Feeling it: UW Bothell class helps students face emotional impact of a warming planet,” includes student perspectives on the issues Atkinson addresses in class, as well as Atkinson’s own commentary on the motivations for the class ...

March 15, 2018

Raissa DeSmet teaches “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora” at the Burke Museum

IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet worked with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture as part of her fall course on “Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora.” Students work with staff members at the Burke as they catalogued a collection of more than 50,000 objects embodying various traditions and cultures through time. As part of an ongoing project called “Decolonizing Collections” ...

January 5, 2018

IAS students publish in local community newspapers

Two IAS students, Hannah Horiatis and Nektaryos Xenos, were published in local community newspapers with work first created in Kristin Gustafson’s Introduction to Journalism autumn course. The Bothell-Kenmore Reporter published Horiatis’ “Rent and home prices are rising in downtown Bothell” and Xenos’ “Downtown Bothell project delayed” in December. Students in the community-based-learning-and-research course are assigned to research, visit, blog about, and then write a news article for one of several ...

January 3, 2018

Jason Lambacher publishes “Extinction & Democracy” and “Exploring the Green Nobel”

IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher published "Extinction & Democracy: Wildness, Wilderness, and Global Conservation" in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (December 2017). The article promotes cross-cultural dialogue regarding species loss centered on the concept of wildness, as distinguished from the legal-philosophical idea of wilderness. Responding to critiques of wilderness conservation "gone global" that point out an insufficient attention to social and political dimensions, Lambacher argues that wildness holds special potential as a hybrid concept capable of linking ecological goals with social critiques that ...

December 28, 2017

Alice Pedersen presents “The Practices and Politics of Yoga”

IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen attended the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education annual conference in San Jose, CA. This year's theme, "Radicalizing Contemplative Education: Compassion, Intersectionality, and Justice in Challenging Times" offered discussion and workshops on integrating social justice pedagogies with contemplative pedagogies. Pedersen presented ...

October 31, 2017

Amoshaun Toft leads workshops on Community Radio Journalism at area LPFM stations

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is facilitating a series of workshops at new area Low Power FM radio stations. The first two workshops will be held at the brand new SPACE 101.1 FM studios in the gatehouse for Sand Point at Magnuson Park, where UWB students will act as peer facilitators for workshop attendees from area LPFM radio stations. Participants will include potential programmers for ...

October 20, 2017

Amoshaun Toft profiled in Faculty Highlights Report

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is profiled in a Faculty Highlights Report on Urban@UW's Homelessness Research Initiative. He is working with faculty and students across the three campuses in the Critical Narratives of Homelessness research cluster to confront dominant stereotypes through ...

October 20, 2017

Martha Groom named “Super Mentor”

IAS faculty member Martha Groom was named a "Super Mentor" at the Student Conference for Conservation Science - New York in recognition of her many years of service giving career and project advice to young conservationists at the three day conference each year. She began her work with SCCS-NY as their first Plenary Speaker in 2010, and has attended as a mentor every year. The conference hosts graduate students and post-doctoral students from around the world, with speakers from over 30 countries. The last two years, Martha also has brought 25-30 undergraduates ...

October 18, 2017