News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals project
Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals, a new project which will bring a series of arts practice workshops and community ceremonies to the Chinatown International District in 2026. Grief Rituals addresses the theme of migration through collective experiences of grieving and healing. The project has won support from King County’s...
September 29, 2025
Dr. Price presents a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences
Dr. Becca Price presented a talk titled 鈥淪cientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs鈥� to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle. Invited by the Community Organizers of Genome Sciences, Dr. Price spoke about connections among curriculum development, faculty affairs, and research on teaching and learning. She connected...
September 29, 2025
Kari Lerum leads workshops on Sexuality, Politics & Faith at Holden Village
For a week in late August, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum served as a discussion facilitator at Holden Village, a spiritual retreat center in the North Cascades. Organized under the theme of 鈥淪exuality, Politics, and Faith,鈥� Lerum鈥檚 workshops explored how faith communities in the U.S. intersect with policies around gender, sex education, family & reproductive...
September 29, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Climate Keynote Talk at Ewha Women鈥檚 University and the University of Exeter
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote address on climate storytelling at the 2025 Ewha-Exeter Symposium on “Hope amid Crisis: Recognition, Resilience, and Renewal.” The 2025 conference was co-hosted by the English departments of Ewha Women鈥檚 University (South Korea) and the University of Exeter (UK), and featured presentations exploring how hope鈥攐ften situated within crisis鈥攅merges in literary and...
September 29, 2025
Tang presents at the 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. The presentation, titled 鈥淩ethink the Digital Cold War: The political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures鈥�, revisits the 鈥渄igital Cold War鈥� framework by examining three case studies on the...
September 29, 2025
William Hartmann publishes on psychological anthropology and Native American Peoples
William Hartmann published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology that compares recent ethnographic and Indigenous scholarship about psychosocial well-being among Native American Peoples. Taking popular critiques of anthropological research by Beatrice Medicine and Vine Deloria Jr. as an evaluative framework (abstract theory leads to abstract action, community control over research, relational approaches...
September 29, 2025
Recent UWB Alums Publish Systematic Review on Representations of Indigeneity in the Mental Health Literature
Recent UW Bothell alums Jeremie Walls and Mikyla Sakurai published a systematic review of how Indigeneity (i.e., what it means to be Indigenous) has been routinely misrepresented in recent mental health research publications about suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together...
September 29, 2025
Min Tang publishes about the TikTok controversy and information geopolitics
Dr. Min Tang publishes a new paper about the high-profile and still unfolding TikTok melodrama on Chinese Journal of Communication. The co-authored paper, Whose head servant? TikTok鈥檚 conundrum between digital capitalism and states, highlights the increasing entanglement between the state interest and technology industry in the United States. While the popular short-video app downplays its...
September 29, 2025
Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project
Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. The book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers...
August 21, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Talks Climate at San Francisco Public Library
Jennifer Atkinson gave a book talk at San Francisco Public Library as part of July鈥檚 Everybody鈥檚 Climate series, a program meant to inspire participants to take action for a more just and sustainable future. In her talk, Grief & Hope in a Burning World: Strategies for Climate Resilience Atkinson discussed how addressing climate challenges requires...
August 5, 2025