News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Amaranth Borsuk interviews local poets
To extend the conversations begun by her MIT Press volume The Book, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk recently staged conversations with several local poets whose creative practice includes publishing, book arts, and performance. On July 12, she spoke with Doug Nufer, whose work includes Oulipo-style constraint based writing, and Shin Yu Pai, whose practice encompasses ...
August 23, 2018
Carrie Bodle selected for Immersive Design Residency at Fallingwater
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle was selected for a Fallingwater Institute Immersive Design Residency at the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater house. The residency brought together professionals who design immersive, virtual environments for a studio-based residency program exploring best practices in immersive design in one of America’s most significant works of architecture.
August 20, 2018
Kristin Gustafson聽organizes two panels for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson (photo, left, courtesy of Randy Jessee) co-organized and co-moderated two History Division teaching panels for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention in Washington, D.C. As the Division’s Teaching Standards Chair since 2015, Gustafson focuses on pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and justice. She begins her second year of a second two-year term in this leadership position for the Division.
August 15, 2018
Julie Shayne co-publishes paper in the Feminist Teacher
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies coordinator Julie Shayne co-authored with Denise Hattwig, Dave Ellenwood, and Taylor Hiner a paper titled “Creating Counter Archives: The 糖心vlog视频's Feminist Community Archive of Washington Project” that was published in the newest issue of the Feminist Teacher.
August 15, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson publishes Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice with University of Georgia Press (Aug 2018). As she argues in this new study of our nation's romance with gardens, gardening literature is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope and frustration, and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life. Given the popularity of gardening practices today, we are increasingly aware that gardens appeal to desires for beauty, community, creative expression, contact with nature, and meaningful work. Yet ...
August 6, 2018
Becca Price publishes “Teaching scientifically”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published a second article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Couch and colleagues) describes practices associated with scientific teaching, an approach that involves testing hypotheses about what students are learning. The annotations explain why this paper is a model for ...
July 30, 2018
Mira Shimabukuro speaks on the Mother鈥檚 Society of Minidoka
In early July, IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke about her research at the annual Minidoka Pilgrimage in Twin Falls, Idaho to a group of survivors and descendants of survivors who gather each year to deepen their awareness about the history and legacy of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II. Shimabukuro told the little-known story of the Mother’s Society of Minidoka, a group of Japanese Issei (immigrant) women who wrote to respond to the US government’s 1944 announcement of ...
July 27, 2018
Wanda Gregory聽on A Brief History of Time Travel
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory spoke at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) as part of the panel for the documentary “A Brief History of Time Travel” which premiered at this international convention last weekend. Wanda appears in the film which explores time travel from a variety of perspectives including ...
July 25, 2018
IAS faculty present at Latinx Studies Association Conference
IAS faculty members Jade Power-Sotomayor, Jos茅 Fust茅, and Yolanda Padilla presented at the Latinx Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C. Jade Power-Sotomayor presented a paper titled: “Zumba and its Discontents: The Extravagance and Ordinariness of Embodied Latinidad” as part of a panel titled "From Broadway to Zumba: Performing Latinidades Across Sound and Body." Jos茅 I. Fust茅 presented a paper titled "Mar铆a’s Uncounted: Accounting for Boricua Subalternities in the Face of (Un)natural Disasters and Debt Colonialism” as part of a panel titled "Afro-Latinx Studies Now ...
July 23, 2018
Dan Jacoby discusses the Janus decision鈥檚 implications for labor unions
IAS faculty member Dan Jacoby wrote a commentary for The Herald on the Supreme Court’s Janus decision, which put an end to public agency unions requiring non-union member to pay “agency fees” toward collective bargaining expenses. Jacoby argues that the Janus decision will weaker unions and put workers at risk. “…this ruling will push public policy further down the discredited path of private contracting agencies. Private contractors do bargain the terms of employment, but ...
July 16, 2018