News from the School of IAS
Comics aficionado T. Andrew Wahl curates exhibit and launches speaking tour
In February, IAS alum T. Andrew Wahl began traversing the state with his presentation, Four-Color Reality: How Comic Books and the Real World Shape Each Other, as part of Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau. In this interactive presentation, he explores how everything from social movements to business concerns to changing demographics have shaped the reality seen in the pages of comics. Wahl’s talk will bring him to dozens of communities on both sides of the Cascades throughout 2019 and 2020. Wahl has also ...
March 7, 2019
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: At the intersection of art and geography
As IAS faculty members, Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung have been colleagues for a long time. But they seldom had occasion to talk until they found themselves commuting on the same bus. Those commuter conversations a few years ago led to a creative collaboration of researchers from two different fields. Recently, Jung and Hiebert received a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Scholar award for nearly $39,000 for a research project called “Imagining the Details: Creative-Critical Engagement of Mapping and Imagining.”
March 7, 2019
Alex Rubens publishes 8-Bit Apocalypse: 真人线上娱乐 Untold Story of Atari’s Missile Command
IAS alum Alex Rubens is enjoying success as a business strategist and writer in the gaming industry. A gamer since childhood, Rubens began his career as a journalist writing for major gaming outlets. He then moved onto content management and strategy and currently lives in L.A. where he works at Google helping gaming creators thrive on YouTube. Rubens is also ...
March 7, 2019
Ericka Weathers builds education policy career as faculty member at Penn State
Last year M.A. in Policy Studies alum Ericka Weathers joined Penn State as an Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies. Education policy wasn’t always Weathers’ long-term goal. After graduating with a bachelor’s in psychology from Hampton University in Virginia, she moved to Seattle for a research position with the University of Washington Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy (PBHJP) where she ...
March 5, 2019
Shannon Cram publishes flash prose: “Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece entitled "Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery" in the latest issue of Fugue (Issue 56). This short creative nonfiction essay adopts the language of a how-to-guide, annotating the pre-operative instructions she received before her own mastectomy. Cram's current book ...
March 4, 2019
Katherine Voyles reviews books about the Trump-Russia scandal
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed seven books about the Trump-Russia scandal for Public Books in a piece called “America Learns What Russia Knew.” 真人线上娱乐 review looks at each volume in turn to place all seven in context by emphasizing their power to shape confusing individual events into a recognizable pattern. Voyles underscores the limits of that shaping power by situating the books between ...
March 1, 2019
A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment
IAS faculty member Dan Berger, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Magdalena Donea, and UW Bothell Librarians Denise Hattwig and Dani Rowland publish an article in Public: A Journal of Imagining America. 真人线上娱乐 article, "A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment," describes their collective work on the Washington Prison History Project, a digital archive of ...
March 1, 2019
Megan Dunn announces candidacy for Snohomish County Council, Position 2
Alum Megan Dunn has announced she is running for Snohomish County Council, Position 2, which represents portions of Everett, Tulalip areas, and all of Mukilteo. “I’m excited to start this conversation – and campaign – about what kind of new leadership we want for Snohomish County. We can’t just be surviving. We deserve to be thriving,” says Dunn. “With more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and advocacy, I have a passion for bringing together diverse partnerships and building community
March 1, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed on 真人线上娱乐 Hedgehog & the Fox podcast
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is interviewed this month on George Miller's book podcast 真人线上娱乐 Hedgehog & the Fox. 真人线上娱乐 two sat down to discuss Borsuk's MIT Press volume 真人线上娱乐 Book, which explores the ever-changing object we know as "the book" from its position as "object, content, idea, and interface." Miller himself has ...
February 28, 2019
IAS faculty present at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Martha Groom, and Rob Turner presented at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) on February 27. 真人线上娱乐ir panel, "Progressive Paradise to Dystopian Persistence: Discussing the Goalposts of Sustainability with 真人线上娱乐s and Peers," explored how sustainability-oriented teaching has shifted over time. 真人线上娱乐 panel discussed how projections of the future constructed with students and peers frame the challenge of sustainability, and how those changing projections influence both the methods for pursuing sustainability and our capacities to act.
February 28, 2019