News from the School of IAS

Brinda Sarathy Speaks with Oregon Public Broadcasting About Forestry Labor

IAS Dean Brinda Sarathy was featured in an article by Oregon Public Broadcasting where she spoke about forestry labor shifts from the 70s to 80s. The article, How Oregon’s forestry workforce has evolved over 50 years, examines the changes in the industry over the last 50 years. In particular, the identities and ideologies of the...

January 31, 2025

Professor Becca Price participating in the Provost’s Academy 

Professor Becca Price has been selected to join a cohort of emerging leaders at UW in the Provost’s Academy. She will work with a mentor: Vice Provost of Academic & Student Affairs Phil Reid. Through this program, Professor Price will co-chair a working group with Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Sean Gehrke to develop...

January 31, 2025

Blooming Beyond the MFA: Emily J. Mundy’s What Blooms in the Dark

Seattle-based poet, teacher, and literary series curator Emily J. Mundy has recently published her debut book of poems, What Blooms in the Dark, with Moon Tide Press (October 2024). Mundy is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program at UW Bothell. Tracing the poet’s journey of release, return, and rebirth, this...

January 31, 2025

Kari Lerum presents on feminism in a new political landscape

On Thursday, Jan. 16, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum spoke on a panel at Seattle University titled “Feminisms and Politics: The Place of Feminism in a New Political Landscape.” Showcasing diverse pathways into feminism, each panelist shared how their positionalities have impacted/impact their approach to feminist consciousness and action. 

January 21, 2025

Jennifer Atkinson Publishes Chapter in “Teaching the Literature of Climate Change”

Jennifer Atkinson published a chapter titled “Stories from our Future: Beyond the Binary of Climate Hope and Grief” in the new MLA book on Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. The collection — edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and published by the Modern Language Association — explores literature as a means to cultivate students’ understanding...

January 7, 2025

Shannon Cram receives Julian Steward Award

IAS faculty member, Shannon Cram, received the 2024 Julian Steward Award for her book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. Awarded by the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association, this award recognizes “the best monograph in environmental and ecological anthropology” each year. The Julian Steward Award committee wrote...

January 7, 2025

Shannon Cram receives Honorable Mention for Gregory Bateson Book Prize

IAS faculty member, Shannon Cram, received an Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize. Awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the Bateson Prize “looks to single out work that is theoretically rich, ethnographically grounded, and in the spirit of the tradition for which the SCA has been known: interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative.”...

November 26, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson Speaks with NPR About Climate Education

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition where she spoke about the difficult climate emotions many college students experience. The story, Universities are teaching students to combat climate anxiety with action, highlighted institutions including Cornell University and the University of Washington, Bothell where educators are sensitive to student anxiety over climate...

November 15, 2024

Shannon Cram publishes in Visual Anthropology Review

“Placemaking in the Nuclear Sensorium” consider’s Irene Lusztig’s 2023 film, “Richland,” a place-based documentary about a nuclear company town in southeastern Washington State. Built by the US government as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland fueled thousands of weapons in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. IAS faculty member Shannon...

November 15, 2024