News from the School of IAS
Tang presents at the 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. The presentation, titled “Rethink the Digital Cold War: The political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures”, revisits the “digital Cold War” framework by examining three case studies on the...
September 29, 2025
William Hartmann publishes on psychological anthropology and Native American Peoples
William Hartmann published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology that compares recent ethnographic and Indigenous scholarship about psychosocial well-being among Native American Peoples. Taking popular critiques of anthropological research by Beatrice Medicine and Vine Deloria Jr. as an evaluative framework (abstract theory leads to abstract action, community control over research, relational approaches...
September 29, 2025
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
Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project
Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. The book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers...
August 21, 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
Julie Shayne publishes paper about The Feminist Digital Center
Dr. Julie Shayne, Tessa Denton, and Denise Hattwig have a new paper out in the open access Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Their paper, “Feminist Digital Center: Building an Online Hub for Undergraduate Feminist Scholarship,” is about their co-created website. Tessa (GWSS & CLA alumna), Denise (Head of Digital Scholarship), and Julie worked collaboratively to build...
June 23, 2025
