News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson presents “Navigating Climate Anxiety”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke at Whitman College on November 18 for a public event exploring climate anxiety, eco-grief, and how to cope with the mental health impacts of our ecological crisis. The talk was attended by student activists and mental health professionals. Atkinson explained not only climate change's external impacts, but also the emotional toll it's having on young people, climate justice activists, scientists, and ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung publish in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) published a paper in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The paper provides new insights on land use and climate change in human-environment dynamics of the equatorial Andes. The study supports the notion that ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez publishes in the journal Ecological Indicators
AS faculty members Santiago Lopez in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) and the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-N眉rnberg published a paper in the journal Ecological Indicators. The paper addresses land use/land cover changes in Southern Ecuador and the implications for ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez publishes a book chapter in Applied research on climate change: Contributions to Latin American cities
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) published a book chapter entitled “Between techno-science and experience: hybrid knowledge as a foundation for applied research on climate change”. In this chapter, the authors argue that ...
November 23, 2020
Becca Price publishes annotations to biology education research
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published another set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Estrada et al.) describes factors that contribute to persistence in graduate training for a biomedical career. The annotations explore ...
November 20, 2020
Julie Shayne blogs about Trump inspired trauma
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the trauma the Trump campaign caused many feminists. In it she argues that reliving the sexist double standards of the 2016 campaign, watching the misogyny on the campaign trail, and seeing an accused sexual predator get so close to the presidency for a second time, was a psychologically traumatic experience for millions of women in the US; especially survivors of sexual assault.
November 20, 2020
Laura Harkewicz publishes “We Can鈥檛 Relocate the World”
IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz published “’We Can’t Relocate the World’: Activists, Doctors, and a Radiation-Exposed Identity” in the Washington State University Press book, Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World. The chapter ruminates on the physical and psychic toll of post-war nuclear testing and the indeterminate correlation between radiation exposure and illness. In this piece, Harkewicz narrates the relationships between U.S. government doctors, antinuclear activists, and the peoples of Rongelap and Utirik in the Marshall Islands who ...
November 17, 2020
Taking contamination out of community gardens
Melanie Malone, an IAS faculty member who researches contaminants in urban gardens, teamed up with community partners to test and remediate soil in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, where residents could use some healthy produce. Malone and community partners received a Population Health Equity Research Grant to sample soil at gardens in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. It’s close to the Duwamish River Superfund site, designated for a special federal cleanup program because of a century of industrial pollution.
November 17, 2020
Bruce Burgett publishes Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett published Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition with New York University Press. Co-edited with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the print-digital volume includes 114 essays, 64 in print and 48 online. The Keywords website also includes pedagogical materials to support instructors who teach print or online essays in their courses.
November 17, 2020
Maryam Griffin publishes 鈥淭ranscending Enclosures by Bus鈥�
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published “Transcending Enclosures by Bus: Public Transit Protests, Frame Mobility, and the Many Facets of Colonial Occupation” in Critique of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue called “Occupations in Context: The Cultural Logics of Occupation, Settler Violence, and Resistance,” co-edited by ...
November 10, 2020