News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Alka Kurian: Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and model minority discourse
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian had a busy summer! She gave virtual lectures in June and September on "Youth, Education, Gender, and Human Rights in India" to students of the Foreign Services Institute, and presented a virtual paper entitled “Growing Up South Asian in America Today” at the University of Lucknow, India. She also participated in virtual ...
September 16, 2020
Ching-In Chen poem included in Alone Together anthology
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Dear O” was selected for inclusion in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. All proceeds will benefit indie booksellers via The Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Chen was also profiled as ...
September 9, 2020
Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures
IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. The article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...
September 9, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk Talks Writing and Nourishment at Entropy
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was interviewed this past spring by Danielle Susi for Entropy's Dinnerview, a column in which writers discuss food as it relates to their work, identity, and writing practice. Borsuk touches on how becoming a parent has rewired her relationship to food, reveals her own food quirks and favorites, and ...
September 8, 2020
Kristin Gustafson聽organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...
September 8, 2020
Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins have launched a 56吃瓜网-wide Imagining Trans Futures research group. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group support trans scholars in their research and writing and to bring trans studies scholars to the 56吃瓜网 community through a speaker series open to the public. The aim of this group is ...
September 4, 2020
Becca Price: “Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM”
IAS faculty member Becca Price published an article about a workshop that helps end discrimination against women in university science. Attendees learn how to recognize discrimination against women—and how to intervene when they see it. The workshop focuses on four case studies about gendered microaggressions, intersectional ...
September 4, 2020
Ursula Valdez and Greg Tuke’s COIL course 鈥淭he Great Rivers鈥� profiled by Stevens Initiative
IAS faculty fember Ursula Valdez and COIL collaborator Greg Tuke’s COIL course on “The Great Rivers” has been profiled in “Exploring Environmental Sustainability: Promising practices in virtual exchange,” as one of the three examples for virtual exchange programs that connect young people in different countries to develop solutions to environmental issues. Valdez and Tuke ...
September 3, 2020
Ursula Valdez 鈥淪lipping Through the Cracks: Racism and the struggle for equity in the field of conservation鈥�
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez was one of 5 panelists who participated in this event as they discussed their experiences as members of the BIPOC community and co-conspirators working in and around the field of conservation. Together, panelists discussed how racism and other issues of social injustice are connected to ...
September 3, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson publishes in Resilience
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's article, titled "Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?" explores the hidden benefit of dark emotions in response to our climate crisis. With growing attention to the mental health impacts of climate change -- and increasing popularity of terms like "eco-anxiety" and "climate grief" -- a constant stream of "five step" articles and support groups are offering tips to cope with that despair. But, as Atkinson asks, what if ...
September 1, 2020