News from the School of IAS
Megan Dunn is elected to Snohomish County Council
Congratulations to Megan Dunn, who was elected to Snohomish County Council in November! The M.A. in Policy Studies alum will represent District 2, which includes Everett, Mukilteo, and Tulalip. An experienced community leader, Dunn is ...
December 19, 2019
IAS faculty members receive funding to host speakers and events
This fall quarter 5 IAS faculty received funding to host speakers and events on campus. Jennifer Atkinson brought Tulalip storyteller and master wood carver Kelly Moses in October who spoke about the relationship between Salish people and the forests in our region; he also shared examples of his artwork. The event was co-sponsored by Social Justice Organizers (SJO) and the Diversity Center. Dan Berger will ...
December 19, 2019
Katherine Voyles reviews The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed Garrett Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Graff’s book is an expansion of his widely-read Politico article “We’re the Only Plane in the Sky,” a moment by moment account of Air Force One on 9/11.
December 19, 2019
IAS faculty members granted IDISCO awards in the fall 2019 funding round
Raissa DeSmett received a community-based partnership seed grant to support her project Decolonizing Collections: Experiments in Care. DeSmett will work with students preparing the Southeast Asia collections to be accessed by community members as part of a new multi-campus Research Family. One of the questions she is pursuing with her students is: How can we help unlock the social, cultural, political, and aesthetic potential of ...
December 19, 2019
Katherine Voyles: “On (Not) Reading the Mueller Report”
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles published “On (Not) Reading the Mueller Report” in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The piece explores the wide gap between the high public interest in the Special Counsel’s report evidenced by its bestseller status and the vanishingly small number of Americans who have actually read in full the redacted report.
December 16, 2019
Neil Simpkins wins 2020 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award
AS faculty member Neil Simpkins has been selected for a 2020 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Simpkins is one of 6 recipients of this award.
December 12, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on The 4 Stages of Climate Grief
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed in an Outside Magazine story on The 4 Stages of Climate Grief. Written by Heather Hansman, author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West, the essay profiled personal struggles with climate grief and eco-anxiety. Atkinson's contribution highlighted practical strategies for coping with distress that arises from assaults on places we are personally connected to. Hansman contacted Atkinson after learning of her work helping students build emotional strategies to cope with climate grief and ...
December 9, 2019
IAS students engage in multi-media production
Students in Kristin Gustafson’s Multi-media Storytelling in Student Media class produced three live UWave radio shows focused on climate change, international student experience, and tuition. These two-way radio productions involved the BISMCS472 students talking with one another on air about their journalism reporting for the Husky Herald. In addition to the radio shows, the news story about climate change appeared in the December/January Husky Herald issue distributed this week. The other two news stories will appear in February’s edition. ...
December 6, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert publish “Imagining the Details: Happy Places and Creative Geovisualization”
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert published “Imagining the Details: Happy Places and Creative Geovisualization” in Livingmaps Review. "Imagining the Details" explores the imagination as a social gesture and a way to creatively and empathically engage with and around questions of homelessness and urban precarity. ...
December 6, 2019
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung publish “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?”
IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung published “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?” in Cultural Geographies. The article takes a creative re-interpretation of psychogeography: psyschogeography less about the psychological dimensions of real space but more about the mind’s spatiality with the consideration of different forms of imagining as ‘places’ ...
December 5, 2019