News from the School of IAS

Q&A: First-generation students

In honor of National First-Generation College Celebration Day on Nov. 8, a few of UW Bothell’s first-gen students answer questions from Director of Communications Maria Lamarca Anderson. Included are three IAS students: Hieu Doan, a Black and Vietnamese senior in Interactive Media Design; Jacky Guzman, a Mexican-American transfer student from Everett Community College majoring in both American & Ethnic Studies and in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Diversity Studies; and Maritza Lauriano Ortega, a Mexican/Latina senior in Environmental Studies with a minor in Human Rights.

November 6, 2020

Becca Price publishes on collaboration with the Pacific Science Center

IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the School of STEM and Dr. Eva Ma from UW Tacoma, published an article about a collaboration between the UW and Pacific Science Center. Price is the Executive Director of STEP-WISE, a program in which postdoctoral fellows in scientific fields learn how to teach ...

November 4, 2020

Shannon Cram: “A Good Day to Die”

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece in the literary journal River Teeth. Cram's mini essay, "A Good Day to Die," appeared in the journal's "Beautiful Things" series, a weekly online publication featuring, "very brief nonfiction that finds beauty in the everyday."

November 2, 2020

Dan Berger publishes in Colin Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People”

IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes an article in "Abolition for the People," a month-long series edited by Colin Kaepernick and appearing in Medium. Coauthored with UC President's Postdoctoral fellow David Stein, the article examines the policy agenda of police and prison abolitionists. "Police and prisons uphold the world that is ...

October 30, 2020

Jin-Kyu Jung speaks on regeneration of railway land in Busan, Korea

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a panelist in the Busan-SEMAPA Joint International Seminar on “Innovative Regeneration of Railway Land,” held in Busan, Korea. Jung discussed several interwoven forms of innovation in both SEMAPA’s “Paris Rive Gauche” urban regeneration project and Busan’s new urban railway land redevelopment plan and the inclusive and innovative urban transformation strategies for the City of Busan.

October 28, 2020

My Story: Why I vote

Elisabeth Schnebele, a senior majoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, could have voted in 2016, but didn’t. Learn what happened, how her mind has changed since then, and why she voted in 2020. “This year, I am voting — for myself, for Molly, the Jane Doe’s, people of color, the LGBTQ community, immigrants both documented and undocumented ... for anyone who feels like they don’t have power. I will fight for you with my vote and help write a better future for us all.”

October 28, 2020

Frances Lee investigates threats to subsistence fishing with Melissa Watkinson and Haliehana Stepetin

As a 2019-20 Environmental Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow for Seattle Globalist, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) examined the threats of climate change and pollution to marine subsistence harvesting. In their article “Declining Marine Health Threatens Traditional Subsistence Fishing for Tribes," published in the South Seattle Emerald, Lee discusses ...

October 27, 2020

Jin-Kyu Jung publishes “Teaching creative geovisualization”

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a paper, “Teaching creative geovisualization: Imagining the creative in/of GIS” in 真人线上娱乐 Canadian Geographer. This paper situates creative geovisualization at the intersection of geography, arts, and digital humanities with a particular emphasis on visualization and mapping that preserves, represents, and generates more authentic, contextual, and nuanced meanings of ...

October 27, 2020

Denise Vaughan discusses the difference between the presidential debate and academic debate (KOMO news)

IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan was interviewed by KOMO news sports reporter Bill Swartz about the UW Bothell Speech and Debate team and the upcoming Presidential Debate. 真人线上娱乐 discussion (listen here) focused on difference between academic debate and what we see on the Presidential Debates where interruptions are frequent, as well as how the UW Bothell team has adapted during the 真人线上娱乐 pandemic.

October 23, 2020