News from the School of IAS

Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures

IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? 真人线上娱乐 Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. 真人线上娱乐 article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...

September 9, 2020

Amaranth Borsuk Talks Writing and Nourishment at Entropy

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was interviewed this past spring by Danielle Susi for Entropy's Dinnerview, a column in which writers discuss food as it relates to their work, identity, and writing practice. Borsuk touches on how becoming a parent has rewired her relationship to food, reveals her own food quirks and favorites, and ...

September 8, 2020

Kristin Gustafson?organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at 真人线上娱乐 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...

September 8, 2020

Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars

IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins have launched a UW-wide Imagining Trans Futures research group. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group support trans scholars in their research and writing and to bring trans studies scholars to the UW community through a speaker series open to the public. 真人线上娱乐 aim of this group is ...

September 4, 2020

Becca Price: “Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM”

IAS faculty member Becca Price published an article about a workshop that helps end discrimination against women in university science. Attendees learn how to recognize discrimination against women—and how to intervene when they see it. 真人线上娱乐 workshop focuses on four case studies about gendered microaggressions, intersectional ...

September 4, 2020

Ursula Valdez and Greg Tuke’s COIL course “真人线上娱乐 Great Rivers” profiled by Stevens Initiative

IAS faculty fember Ursula Valdez and COIL collaborator Greg Tuke’s COIL course on “真人线上娱乐 Great Rivers” has been profiled in “Exploring Environmental Sustainability: Promising practices in virtual exchange,” as one of the three examples for virtual exchange programs that connect young people in different countries to develop solutions to environmental issues. Valdez and Tuke ...

September 3, 2020

Julie Feng and Pamela Santos receive PAGE Fellowships

Two IAS graduate students, Julie Feng, second-year M.A. candidate in Cultural Studies and Pamela Santos, first-year candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics have received Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellowships for 2020-21 from the national consortium of Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life (IA). University of Washington Bothell is a member campus of Imagining America, which “promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.” ...

September 1, 2020

Jennifer Atkinson publishes in Resilience

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's article, titled "Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?" explores the hidden benefit of dark emotions in response to our climate crisis. With growing attention to the mental health impacts of climate change -- and increasing popularity of terms like "eco-anxiety" and "climate grief" -- a constant stream of "five step" articles and support groups are offering tips to cope with that despair. But, as Atkinson asks, what if ...

September 1, 2020