News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
聽Ching-In聽Chen: 鈥淪outh in Hundreds: missing one hundred鈥�
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred” was selected by guest curator Meg Day for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The series initially began as one-hundred-word segments, which were braided to evoke the ghostly dislocations and detachments of relocating from Houston to Seattle. You can ...
January 6, 2020
Maryam Griffin receives Society of Scholars Fellowship
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has been awarded a Society of Scholars fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This fellowship will support Griffin's work on her research project “Vehicles of Decolonization: Politics and Public Transportation in the Palestinian West Bank.” Griffin will join ...
January 2, 2020
Ching-In聽Chen publishes two poems in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published the poems “Self-Portrait, Cannibal/Reversal/Break In/Benediction” and “Self-Portrait, Shipping Container/Driving Through Night/Jury” in the Radical Transnationalism: Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires issue of Meridians ...
January 2, 2020
Lambacher on ecological nostalgia at Pacific Northwest Political Science Conference
AS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented a paper currently being worked on for publication at the PNW Political Science conference in Boise, ID in November 2019. The paper argues technological, cultural, and environmental change has produced a world that is awash in nostalgia for what has vanished or is threatened with disappearance. But while nostalgia is pervasive ...
December 23, 2019
Ching-In聽Chen publishes 鈥�15鈥� in Lavender Review
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published “15,” from the hybrid series, Houston in Compilation, in Lavender Review’s December issue. Lavender Review is a literary journal published by Headmistress Press dedicated to lesbian poetry and art.
December 23, 2019
IAS faculty members receive funding to host speakers and events
This fall quarter 5 IAS faculty received funding to host speakers and events on campus. Jennifer Atkinson brought Tulalip storyteller and master wood carver Kelly Moses in October who spoke about the relationship between Salish people and the forests in our region; he also shared examples of his artwork. The event was co-sponsored by Social Justice Organizers (SJO) and the Diversity Center. Dan Berger will ...
December 19, 2019
Katherine Voyles reviews The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed Garrett Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Graff’s book is an expansion of his widely-read Politico article “We’re the Only Plane in the Sky,” a moment by moment account of Air Force One on 9/11.
December 19, 2019
IAS faculty members granted IDISCO awards in the fall 2019 funding round
Raissa DeSmett received a community-based partnership seed grant to support her project Decolonizing Collections: Experiments in Care. DeSmett will work with students preparing the Southeast Asia collections to be accessed by community members as part of a new multi-campus Research Family. One of the questions she is pursuing with her students is: How can we help unlock the social, cultural, political, and aesthetic potential of ...
December 19, 2019
Katherine Voyles: 鈥淥n (Not) Reading the Mueller Report鈥�
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles published “On (Not) Reading the Mueller Report” in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The piece explores the wide gap between the high public interest in the Special Counsel’s report evidenced by its bestseller status and the vanishingly small number of Americans who have actually read in full the redacted report.
December 16, 2019
Neil Simpkins wins 2020 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award
AS faculty member Neil Simpkins has been selected for a 2020 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Simpkins is one of 6 recipients of this award.
December 12, 2019