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Dr. Julie Shayne publishes a piece about the power of students鈥� voices

Dr. Shayne, Teaching Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies has a new piece in Ms. Magazine online. The piece is titled 鈥溾�楽haring Our Stories Loosens the Grip they Have on Us鈥�: Watching Students Claim Voice to Power鈥� and can be read here.In it she discusses her class 鈥淭he Power of Feminist...

June 20, 2024

Congratulations to Our Distinguished IAS Faculty & Students!

The end of the academic year is a vibrant time of celebration and reflection throughout the UW. The School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences had the great pleasure of contributing to the energy of the season at our Graduating Student Send Off event.  The event brought together IAS students, faculty, staff, alumni and families to...

June 13, 2024

MFA鈥檚 Phoenix Kai features in Henry Art鈥檚 Gallery Speculative Fiction between Stars and Clay: Short Stories Inspired by Kelly Akashi鈥檚 Encounters

Creative Writing and Poetics MFA candidate, Phoenix Kai, along with UW, Seattle graduate students K. C. Smith, Andreas P. Bassett, and K. Meera, contributed short stories to the Henry Art Gallery鈥檚 latest interpretive guide, Speculative Fiction between Stars and Clay: Short Stories Inspired by Kelly Akashi鈥檚 Encounters. The fifth interpretive guide publication produced by the...

June 11, 2024

phoenix kai vaughan-ende Shows that “Anything is Possible”聽

phoenix kai vaughan-ende is a multimedia artist & poet in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences鈥� MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. This June, they’ll be graduating amongst the rest of their 2024 cohort after spending the past two years engaged in research and conversations surrounding engrained societal codes and binaries. Their work...

June 4, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson Featured as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University

Jennifer Atkinson was featured as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University, where she joined the campus to give a public lecture on her new book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray, a climate author and environmental...

June 4, 2024

Lauren Berliner co-edits and publishes in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

Lauren Berliner recently co-edited and published an essay in the special issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, entitled 鈥淎bsence and Afterlives: Unwatched, Undistributed, Lost, and Inaccessible Media.鈥� The issue includes articles by leading scholars in the field, including Kelli Moore, Diana Flores Ru墨z, Elizabeth Patton, Xin Peng, and Jaimie Baron (co-editor) whose essays...

June 4, 2024

Shannon Cram wins Ludwik Fleck Prize

Shannon Cram has been awarded the 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize for her book, Unmaking the Bomb. Given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Fleck Prize recognizes books for their 鈥渃ontributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies, their novelty, and their overall scholarly quality.鈥� The award committee wrote the following...

May 28, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson Publishes The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

Jennifer Atkinson published The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World with University of California Press. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray. The book features contributions from 35 scholars, educators, activists, educational staff, artists, game designers and students who are integrating emotion into climate justice work....

May 17, 2024