MA in Cultural Studies - UW Bothell

05/07/2022

Congratulations, Marcus!

IAS alum Marcus Johnson received his bachelor's in Global Studies ('13), and a master's in Cultural Studies (’16). As a Cultural Studies student, he worked with IAS faculty member Ben Gardner on “The Multi Dimensions of Blackness: Cultural Hegemony in the United States and Abroad.” Johns...

04/18/2022

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is interviewed in "Telling the same old story at Third and Pine," a current analysis of homelessness discourse published by Real Change News. The article argues that that Toft’s previous research on homelessness discourse from 2008, along with a subsequent jou...

12/15/2021

Here's a new book from Maryam Griffin!

Featuring a variety of street images, Vehicles of Decolonization shows that multiple registers of people power work in concert not only to resist settler colonial logics but to reinhabit the land through the practice and preservation of alternative relations of mobility.

Examining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement,

12/14/2021

In Ron Krabill's course, Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture, students gain the knowledge needed to intervene in human rights violations.

“We often think that no one is against human rights, but someone is. Otherwise, they wouldn’t continue to be violated. This course is about identifying the stakeholders who benefit from the perpetuated harm and figuring out how to use media to intervene.”

Read the full article here:
https://www.uwb.edu/news/december-2021/students-and-advocates-too

12/08/2021

The newly published Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America includes IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson’s chapter, “Death of Democracy, North Carolina.” The chapter provides a case study with parallels of two newspapers and the men leading them. ...

12/06/2021

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently published an article in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy about her class, “Death Rituals” (previously featured as a UW Bothell news story). The article, “Teaching death rituals during states of emergency: Centering death positivity, anti-racism, grief, ...

12/02/2021

Welcome back to campus, Maisha!

M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Maisha Manson (they, them, theirs) was recently hired as program manager at UW Bothell’s Student Diversity Center and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through a national search. Maisha will support the Diversity Center and UW Bothell student community throu...

12/01/2021

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum’s essay, “The White Lotus: Lessons on Black Lives Matter, Reparations, and Q***r Liberation” was recently published on the digital site for Ms. Magazine. In contrast to previous reviews which cast the popular TV mini-series, “The White Lotus,” as simply

11/22/2021

Curated by Jessy Koeiman, Back in the Day is our Future amplifies Black voices who manifest resistance by celebrating the richness of Black culture and history.

Berette S. Macaulay (Cultural Studies, '20) is a featured artist in the exhibition Back in the Day is our Future, part of the Melkweg Expo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 29 through December 5, 2021. Curated by Jessy Koeiman, Back in the Day is our Future amplifies Black voices who man...

09/24/2021

IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited (with Glenn Hendler, Fordham University) a Keywords Now cluster of essays on “Critical/Race/Theory.”  Keywords Now is an extension of Burgett and Hendler’s co-edited Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition.  It is designed to explore o...

06/22/2021

MACS faculty member Dan Berger discussed prison abolition on Rumble with Michael Moore. The Oscar-winning filmmaker interviewed Berger about the problem of prison and whether a “Department of Restorative Justice & Redemption” should replace our existing Prison Industrial Complex.
Listen at: https://rumble.media/episode/welcome-to-the-department-of-restorative-justice-redemption-with-dan-berger

06/14/2021

Congratulations to the MACS Class of 2021!

IAS faculty and staff made this video to mark how proud we are of all of you. Take a look — you never know who might pop into this clip!

Dear IAS 2021 Graduates,We’re so sorry that we cannot celebrate in person with you this year, but the IAS faculty and staff wanted to make this video to mark...