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Julie Shayne publishes review essay in Feminist Pedagogy
Dr. Julie Shayne wrote a review of two new novels about reproductive autonomy denied: “Enormous Wings” by Laurie Frankel and “Where the Girls Were” by Kate Schatz. Schatz’s “Where the Girls Were” is set in 1968 San Francisco, California in a home for unmarried pregnant girls. Frankel’s “Enormous Wings” is set nearly sixty years later...
July 17, 2026
Shannon Cram publishes in Bellingham Review
IAS professor Shannon Cram published a flash essay in the spring issue of Bellingham Review. Tuesday Morning recounts a brief, bright memory of Cram’s mother in one long sentence. Editor-in-Chief, Jane Wong, writes that the piece “stays in the belly of a moment of laughter despite loss and fear vibrating through: ‘this memory will rush...
July 13, 2026
IAS Professors Santiago Lopez, Jin-Kyu Jung, and UW Bothell student, Haoye Zhang publish research in Urban Climate
IAS Professors Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung, data visualization student Haoye Zhang, and Professor Bo Ae Chun from Kwandong Catholic University of Korea have published a research article in Urban Climate “Restored Wetlands as Urban Heat Mitigators: A UAS-Based Assessment of Land Use, Land Cover, and Surface Temperature in Bothell, Washington.” The study evaluated whether...
May 20, 2026
Dr. Collins Honored with UW Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Dr. Charlie Collins has been selected as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, presented by the University of Washington’s Office of Undergraduate Research. Chosen from an impressive pool of 305 nominations, Collins was nominated by his mentees—four of whom have been selected for Population Health Recognition Awards and will present their...
April 10, 2026
Recent UWB Alums Publish Systematic Review on Representations of Indigeneity in the Mental Health Literature
Recent UW Bothell alums Jeremie Walls and Mikyla Sakurai published a systematic review of how Indigeneity (i.e., what it means to be Indigenous) has been routinely misrepresented in recent mental health research publications about suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together...
September 29, 2025
Min Tang publishes about the TikTok controversy and information geopolitics
Dr. Min Tang publishes a new paper about the high-profile and still unfolding TikTok melodrama on Chinese Journal of Communication. The co-authored paper, Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states, highlights the increasing entanglement between the state interest and technology industry in the United States. While the popular short-video app downplays its...
September 29, 2025
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data”
Jin-Kyu Jung and a former IAS faculty member, Ted Hiebert, have published a paper, “Smart city photo booths: Playful data,” in the Environment and Planning F journal. Sharing one of the critical moments in an interdisciplinary collaboration between an urban geographer/planner and a visual artist, they provide an example of a playful data intervention conducted...
September 29, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Talks Climate at San Francisco Public Library
Jennifer Atkinson gave a book talk at San Francisco Public Library as part of July’s Everybody’s Climate series, a program meant to inspire participants to take action for a more just and sustainable future. In her talk, Grief & Hope in a Burning World: Strategies for Climate Resilience Atkinson discussed how addressing climate challenges requires...
August 5, 2025
IAS faculty Shannon Cram is a Visiting Writer at Eastern Oregon University
IAS professor Shannon Cram served as a visiting writer at Eastern Oregon University’s New Nature Writing Conference, a project of the school’s MFA program in Creative Writing. In addition to a public reading and discussion about her recent book, Cram taught a class for MFA students called Writing the Body.
August 5, 2025
Brianna Fero Publishes on Gendered Violence in The CROW
Brianna Fero, a graduate student in UW Bothell’s Master of Arts in Policy Studies program, recently published her essay “Echoing Across a Nation: The New Wave of Gendered Terrorism in the United States” in the 10th volume of The CROW, the university’s interdisciplinary journal. Originally written in Dr. Julie Shayne’s Power of Feminist Writing course,...
June 23, 2025