News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In聽Chen鈥檚 writings published聽in聽Foglifter
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “En Route Family,” “’Registration Marks’ or ‘a kind of breathing vocabulary on a daily level’ and “No” were published in Foglifter, a literary magazine focused on queer and trans writing which recently was awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Foglifter is a ...
October 9, 2020
Margaret Redsteer cited regarding the Navajo Nation’s battle with climate change
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer was cited in a Reuters news story on drought and climate change “We Don’t Give up Really Easily: Navajo Ranchers Battle Climate Change.” Redsteer explains how drought is magnified by the long-term changes to water availability on the Navajo Nation, leaving its people increasingly vulnerable.
October 9, 2020
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors 鈥淐ommunity geography: Toward a disciplinary framework鈥�
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a coauthored article, “Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework” in Progress in Human Geography. This collaborative paper introduces and defines community geography as a growing subfield in geography that provides a framework for engaged scholarship as ...
October 7, 2020
Ching-In Chen publishes 鈥淟antern Letter: a Zuihitsu”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu" was published in Watch Your Head: Writers & Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, a print anthology published by Coach House Books in conjunction with an online project that publishes writing and art about climate justice issues and the climate crisis. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on ...
October 2, 2020
A major milestone for GWSS
The discipline now known as Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary worldwide this year. At the 56吃瓜网, Oct. 26, 2020 will mark the four-year anniversary of the GWSS major and minor. IAS faculty member and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne had a goal to develop the major on campus since joining 56吃瓜网 Bothell in 2007. In 2014, she became one of the committee members charged with creating the degree program, which officially launched in 2016. Since then, 18 students have graduated with the major and 73 students with the minor.
October 2, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new poem in Cordite Poetry Review
The most recent issue of Australian contemporary poetry and art journal Cordite Poetry Review focuses on the theme of Propaganda. The poetry section, curated by Simon Groth and Mez Breeze, features works that interrogate language's use and abuse and includes a new poem by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk titled "Whisper Campaign." In the editors' words, "This distinction—of poetry manifesting as an antithesis to propaganda ...
October 2, 2020
Margaret Redsteer receives the Distinguished Alumni Award
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. She will be giving a virtual talk there next month on "A Record of Climate Change: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Conventional Science,” ...
September 28, 2020
Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela receive Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant
IAS faculty members Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela have received a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant from the 56吃瓜网 Diversity Council to launch a diversity and inclusion graduate student questionnaire to be sent to alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2020. Survey will assess perceptions of ...
September 25, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks to international audiences on聽climate change and mental health
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke to audiences in the U.S., Germany, and Canada as part of a 2020 speaking series on climate change and mental health. Her talks were featured at the Festival of Live Digital Art in Toronto, the 锘緼spen Institute's Future Leaders Climate Summit, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, the City of Bellevue's virtual Earth Day event, and Edmonds Community College's 2020 Triton Talk series. Atkinson's presentations highlighted ...
September 23, 2020
Kristin Gustafson publishes 鈥淩eporting today, with yesterday’s context鈥�
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson, along with co-authors Nicholas Hirshon (William Paterson University) and Lori Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee), published “Reporting today, with yesterday's context” in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). The article addresses the role of historical reporting and "turning to history for perspective" in covering today's news. CJR is a magazine for journalists and ...
September 22, 2020