News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Shannon Cram publishes and speaks on nuclear energy, work, and politics

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published "Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure" in Public Culture. Informed by her ethnographic and policy work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Cram's article traces the historical development and embodied practice of "permissible dose" in U.S. nuclear industry. She considers the deeply political ways that worker exposure facilitates nuclear production and examines how "safe" has become synonymous with "safe enough" at Hanford. She also ...

September 8, 2016

Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species

IAS faculty member Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species at the EcoSummit 2016 meeting in Montpellier France. His talk, based on a paper currently in review at the journal Biodiversity Conservation, was titled “Saving All the Pieces: An Inadequate Conservation Strategy for an Endangered Amphibian in a Rapidly Urbanizing Area.” He also ...

September 8, 2016

Jason Lambacher presents paper on Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue

IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented an environmental political theory paper titled, "Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue," at the Just Sustainability -- Hope for the Commons conference, hosted by Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice & Sustainability on August 7-9. Lambacher's paper examines social justice critiques of ...

August 26, 2016

Dan Berger publishes two op-eds on the history of law and order politics in 2016

IAS faculty member Dan Bergerpublished an article in the African American Intellectual History blog about the use of law and order politics by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their respective party conventions. The article, “Lessons in Law and Order Politics,” describes the 1960s origins of law and order ...

August 10, 2016

Becca Price publishes paper on the challenges of teaching genetic drift

IAS faculty member Becca Price published a co-authored paper, “Observing populations and testing predictions about genetic drift in a computer simulation improves college students’ conceptual understanding” in Evolution: Education and Outreach. The paper focuses on the challenges of teaching genetic drift ...

August 10, 2016

Julie Shayne presents at the International Sociological Association鈥檚 (ISA) Forum on Sociology conference in Vienna, Austria

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne presented at this year’s International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum on Sociology in two different sessions. First, her book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (SUNY; 2014 & 2015) was featured at an author-meets-critics session with a handful of other sociologists who conduct transnational feminist research. Additionally, Shayne ...

July 25, 2016

Dan Berger on KING5 #StandUnited

IAS faculty member Dan Berger appeared on the KING5 “#StandUnited” roundtable on July 9 to discuss police violence and Black Lives Matter in the wake of recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, as well as the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. The hour-long roundtable, which aired live, featured local activists, religious leaders, scholars, and police officers. Berger joined ...

July 11, 2016

Carrie Bodle Gives Artist Talk

IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle gave an artist talk on her work at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle on June 29. Bodle highlighted her visual and sound artworks from 2002-2016 which are immersive installations that explore the relationships between art and science, translating inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences. This talk is ...

July 6, 2016

Dan Berger at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and in TIME Magazine

IAS faculty member Dan Berger led a seminar about the criminal justice system for college students at the Mellon Summer Humanities Institute. Held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the NY Public Library system, the Institute brings together advanced undergraduates in African American Studies interested in pursuing Ph.D.s in the humanities. Over an eight-week period...

July 5, 2016