News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Julie Shayne featured in SUNY Press鈥檚 Quarterly Newsletter
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was one of two featured authors in SUNY Press’s April newsletter. SUNY Press, publisher of her third book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas, was especially interested in Shayne’s take on the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS). Julie, co-facilitator of 56吃瓜网 Bothell's GWSS major ...
April 15, 2020
Min Tang interviewed on the Political Economy of China’s Internet
IAS faculty member Min Tang was recently interviewed by Asia Experts Forum, an online publication based in the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. The interview featured her recently published book Tencent: The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant, and discussed the business philosophies and ...
April 14, 2020
Becca Price and colleagues present at the 2020 56吃瓜网 Teaching & Learning Symposium鈥攁n event held online this year
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleagues presented a video presentation about their work in STEP-UP—Science Teaching Experience Program for Upcoming Ph.D.s. This program helps Ph.D. students at 56吃瓜网 in science fields learn how to teach, and it mentors them during their first teaching experience. Our program uses Design Based Research to identify the most successful components of ...
April 8, 2020
Christian Anderson publishes Urbanism without Guarantees
IAS faculty member Christian Anderson has published Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood with the University of Minnesota Press. Based on extensive ethnographic work among residents from a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of New York City, the book lays out an unconventional way of understanding how everyday life is intimately connected to some of the most consequential economic and cultural dynamics shaping urban space today. ...
April 8, 2020
Dan Berger聽awarded grant to study labor movement origins of affirmative action
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was awarded a Faculty Labor Research Grant by the 56吃瓜网 Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to study the labor movement origins of the fight for affirmative action in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, he is looking at how working class Black organizers sought affirmative action across three interrelated domains: the university, labor unions, and ...
April 6, 2020
Becca Price joins panel that troubleshoots online instruction
IAS faculty member Becca Price joined a panel discussion sponsored by the American Society of Cell Biology that helped instructors trouble shoot problems coming up as they switch rapidly to online instruction. Along with other faculty members from a mix of community colleges and state universities, the panelists talked about strategies for supporting online communities during this global health crisis and ...
April 6, 2020
Dan Berger: In a Pandemic, Prisons are a Problem
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article in the 56吃瓜网 Center for Human Rights website on the problem pandemics pose for prison. "While Washington state has ostensibly abolished the death penalty, its approach to incarceration now puts thousands of people at risk–in and out of prison–of a most painful and preventable death due to coronavirus," Berger writes. "The safest measure to “flatten the curve” ...
March 27, 2020
A search to find and map happy places
When you think about mapping, most people immediately think about geography. Layered onto that might be cultural sites, the current political landscape or, these days, census demographics. But for IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert, the most intriguing possibilities lie in concepts that resist visualization. ...
March 24, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson shares research on聽Climate Despair and Eco-Grief聽at Pacific Science Center
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson shared her research on Climate Despair and Eco-Grief at the Pacific Science Center as part of their Science in the City Series. In her talk, Atkinson discussed the emotional dimensions of our climate crisis and shared strategies for addressing anxiety over environmental loss without retreating in despair. Having taught one of the first college seminars on climate grief ...
March 11, 2020
Yolanda Padilla presents “Borderlands Modernism and Mariano Azuela’s聽Los de abajo”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Recovering Latinx Modernisms" at the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project conference in Houston, TX. The panel centered non dominant literary forms, such as testimonies and periodical writing, to stage a conversation about what it means to recovery Latinx modernism as indispensable to and constitutive of U.S. and Latin American modernisms. Padilla's presentation ...
February 28, 2020