News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Melanie Malone and Jin-Kyu Jung receive Antipode grant
IAS faculty members Melanie Malone and Jin-Kyu Jung received an Antipode "Right to the Discipline" grant along with colleagues Carrie Freshour (56吃瓜网 Seattle), Emma Slager (56吃瓜网 Tacoma), and activists from Free Them All. The project ...
May 25, 2021
IAS Faculty Promotions
IAS faculty members Charlie Collins, Minda Martin, Sara Maxwell, and Mira Shimabukuro have been promoted in rank.
May 24, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Women and Non-Binary Faculty of Color are Vulnerable One Year into Pandemic”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen collaborated with other pre-tenure women and non-binary faculty of color at the University of Washington to write an opinion piece about the impact of navigating the transitions resulting from coronavirus on women or non-binary faculty of color early in their academic careers.
May 18, 2021
Rebecca Brown鈥檚 鈥淎 Vision” translated into Japanese
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s story “A Vision" has just been translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata and published in a two volume set of English language stories (Kenkyusha).
May 17, 2021
IAS faculty win Simpson Center Awards
IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics. IAS faculty member Shannon Cram won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is ...
May 14, 2021
Becca Price聽moderates conversation on inclusive teaching
IAS faculty member Becca Price moderated a conversation about inclusive teaching with Bryan Dewsbury (The University of Rhode Island) and Cynthia Brame (Vanderbilt University). The conversation was part of the Online with LSE webinar series sponsored by CBE-Life Sciences Education.
May 7, 2021
Ching-In聽Chen publishes 鈥淭he work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism鈥�
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s lyric essay “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism” was published for the Being Lazy and Slowing Down blog. Being Lazy and Slowing Down was started by Dr. Kimine Mayuzumi and Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan as a way to ...
May 5, 2021
Becca Price: Pandemic-Related Instructor Talk
IAS faculty member Becca Price spent fall and winter of 2019/20 supporting a team of postdoctoral scholars as they developed biology seminar courses to teach at 56吃瓜网 Bothell and at 56吃瓜网 Seattle for spring of 2020. These beginning instructors had to quickly change their approach to teaching in the face of the emotional crises of that spring and the sudden shift to remote teaching. Price and the instructors published a paper ...
May 5, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung on living in smart cities
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung gave a presentation on “Smart Engagement with Citizens Unbound” at the “Join Venture and Joining Governance” session in “The 1st Sejong Smart City Forum” held in Sejong, South Korea. Jung discussed the need to engage closely with the citizens in embracing the diverse perspectives and opportunities of living in the smart cities and ...
April 28, 2021
Alka Kurian聽moderates Q&A for Writing with Fire
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-moderated the question and answer session for the film Writing with Fire screened at the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival. The award-winning film is about "the fearless journalists behind Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit (“untouchable”) women, as they fight for truth and justice in the face of hostile patriarchy and ...
April 27, 2021