News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ben Gardner Presents at Conference on 鈥淓lite Discourse鈥� in Bern, Switzerland
IAS faculty member Ben Gardner presented a paper and participated in a round table conference on “Elite Discourse” in Bern, Switzerland co-organized by IAS affiliate faculty member Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski. The interdisciplinary round table brought together ...
April 26, 2016
Recent Article by Becca Price Named as 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Choice鈥� in Science
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez had their recently published article, “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms,” named as an “editor’s choice” in the April 15 issue of Science. The recognition calls ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Present at the 56吃瓜网 Teaching and Learning Symposium
Three IAS faculty members presented at 2016 Teaching and Learning Symposium. Ursula Valdez presented “Assessing Group Dynamics and Efficiency of Collaborative Assignments” in collaboration with Jeff Jensen from STEM, and “From Cascades to Andes: A Collaborative Online International Learning Experience”. ...
April 26, 2016
IAS Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
IAS has hired eleven new faculty members for 2016-17 across fields including arts practice, community psychology, ethnic studies, law & policy, literature, writing & rhetoric. Short bios for each are found below:
April 25, 2016
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett Discuss Public Humanities at Gonzaga University
IAS Director of Graduate Studies Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett visited Gonzaga University to discuss public humanities. Bartha delivered an invited talk on “Projects, Partners, Publics: Designs for an Engaged Humanities,” while Burgett ...
April 14, 2016
Dan Berger Speaks on Black Radicals and the Law and Prison Organizing
Dan Berger participated in a roundtable on "Black Radicals and the Law" at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. During the conference, the OAH announced that Berger was appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program ...
April 12, 2016
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner, Jin-Kyu Jung, Santiago Lopez, and Adam Romero present research at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco
Five IAS faculty members presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, March 29 - April 2. Christian Anderson presented a paper on “performative infrastructure as an urban social force” as part of a session called “outside the wage: spaces, politics, possibilities.” Ben Gardner ...
April 12, 2016
Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on “Making Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion” at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology conference. Shayne's contribution to the session was “University Presses and Activist Scholarship/Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas.” Jade Power-Sotomayor presented ...
April 4, 2016
Alice Pedersen Convenes Seminar on 鈥淥ther Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context鈥�
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen convened a seminar on “Other Mothers: Representations of Laboring Women in a Global Context” at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Cambridge, MA. Her contribution to the seminar ...
March 31, 2016
Kari Lerum Co-Edits Special Section of Articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is co-editor of a special section of articles on Sex Work and Human Trafficking in the journal Sociological Perspectives. The section includes ...
March 28, 2016