{"id":36500,"date":"2024-07-16T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?page_id=36500"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:33:09","slug":"katie-gower","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/katie-gower\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Gower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katie Gower<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Katie Gower<\/strong>\u00a0graduated from Eastern Washington University in Fall 2022 with a BA in Political Science with minors in Philosophy and Sociology. Katie is a first-generation, Honors student. Born and raised in Spokane, she graduated from Spokane Falls Community College with a transfer Associate of Arts Degree in 2020. Her research interests range from political theory to domestic public policy concerning climate change, immigration, and homelessness. She has also demonstrated interest and conducted research regarding intersectional feminism and transformative justice. Katie published to Urban Geography<\/a> Fall 2024, Compassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: The case of Spokane, WA<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Her completed research projects include:\u00a0Neoliberalism and the Decline of Labor Unions in the United States, Alternative Justice Solutions to Gender-Based Violence,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0John Stuart Mill and Proportional Representation: How to Ensure Political Equality in a Representative Democracy<\/em>. Katie’s senior capstone (2022), was titled\u00a0Framing Matters: Investigating Public Policy Addressing Homelessness in Spokane, Washington<\/em>. She is interested in local politics and public policy and has completed an extensive research project on Washington state climate change legislation titled\u00a0An Analysis of Initiative 1631 and the Future of Carbon Fee Legislation in Washington State<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

She is using her research to engage in community work tackling housing and homelessness in Spokane and will apply to graduate school in Fall 2023.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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2022 EWU Faculty Research Mentor: Dr. Matthew Anderson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: <\/strong>Compassionate Revanchism, Homelessness, and the Divided Local State: The Case of Spokane, WA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Poster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract: <\/strong>This study deepens our understanding of compassionate revanchism in the spatial management of homelessness in a relatively understudied, midsize city: Spokane, WA. Spokane has observed consistently increasing levels of homelessness in recent years, and has been vastly understudied as a site of homelessness compared to other larger West Coast cities. Spokane\u2019s homelessness policies and practices mirror the contradictory trend of persistent revanchist approaches coupled with increased funding to systems of care (e.g. low-barrier shelters) experienced in other cities. This study investigates the internal workings of the City of Spokane in its efforts to solve its worsening homelessness crisis, and presents a critical discourse analysis of compassionate revanchist in this urban context. Revealed is a sharp internal conflict within the local state in Spokane, especially between the Mayor\u2019s Office and the City Council and other local and regional state agencies. This conflict reflects a sharp divide within homelessness discourse regarding its primary causes and applicable solutions, and demonstrates that local governments are not the homogenous entities that are frequently portrayed in the literature. In the process, compassionate revanchism is revealed to be less an ambivalent or singular policy approach than indicative of a more complicated internal division within local government between starkly opposing narratives and explanations of homelessness.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Congratulations to Katie Gower for Getting Published in the Journal of Urban Geography!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

McNair Scholar Katie Gower Publishes Groundbreaking Research on Homelessness in Urban Geography Journal! We are thrilled to announce that Katie Gower, a McNair Scholar, has published her article, \u201cCompassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: the case of Spokane, WA,\u201d in the prestigious Journal of Urban Geography. Katie conducted her research under the mentorship … Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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EWU McNair Scholar Katie Gower Attends Political Science Conference<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

EWU McNair Scholar Katie Gower attended the\u00a0Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting in November.\u00a0The conference was held in Walla Walla, Washington at the Marcus Whitman Hotel. Katie presented her McNair Summer Research project titled Compassionate Revanchism, Homelessness, and the Divided Local State: The Case of Spokane, WA (mentor Dr.\u00a0Matthew Anderson)\u00a0on a\u00a0panel with other political … Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Katie Gower Selected as an EWU McNair Scholar and Awarded Summer Research Internship<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

Congratulations to new McNair Scholar Katie Gower! Katie was selected by the McNair Scholars’ selection committee on the basis of her passion for research, commitment to attaining a PhD, and overall potential for success in graduate school. The federally-funded TRIO Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at EWU selects motivated and talented juniors and seniors … Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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13 McNair Scholars Present at EWU\u2019s 2022 Student Research & Creative Works Symposium<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

On May 11, EWU held the 2022 Student Research and Creative Works Symposium. The Symposium has been held virtually for the last two years, and being back in person allowed for a different level of engagement as scholars discussed their research (both proposed and completed) with fellow students, faculty, and the EWU community. Many scholars … Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katie Gower Katie Gower\u00a0graduated from Eastern Washington University in Fall 2022 with a BA in Political Science with minors in Philosophy and Sociology. Katie is a first-generation, Honors student. Born and raised in Spokane, she graduated from Spokane Falls Community College with a transfer Associate of Arts Degree in 2020. Her research interests range from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9086,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36500","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38357,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36500\/revisions\/38357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}