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Gillian Harkins Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Prison Education Work
Professor of English Gillian Harkins has facilitated a number of projects that center currently and formerly incarcerated people while collaborating with various groups to identify and . . .
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Nowruz celebrates spring and the New Year
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization celebrates the Persian New Year.
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Putting Poetry on the Map
Students in the Department of English have created an interactive map of site-specific poetry in Washington state.
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Uncanny Mex-Men
Alaniz, a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures, spoke about Mexican-American representation in comics from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Rapper Sol meditates on a changing Seattle
Sol Moravia-Rosenberg (BA, American Ethnic Studies | CHID, 2011) new album will be released Friday.
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Do you speak Ladino? Meet the folks trying to save a dying language
Learn more about how the UW's Sephardic Studies Program and the department of linguistics are collaborating to keep Ladino alive.
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University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
So proud of our College of Arts & Sciences Fulbright recipients! Check out all the exciting places they are headed in the year ahead.
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Faculty Friday: Adam Warren
Adam Warren is an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Washington with a special focus in science, medicine, and the study of indigenous peoples in Peru.
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Taking Language to Court
As a court interpreter, Kenneth Barger (BA, 2014) has helped hundreds of litigants be understood.
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Seattle artist seeks utopia through stories about grandma
Through his G'ma Project, artist Che Sehyun (BA, English, CHID | BS, Biology, 2011) is honoring elders, ancestors and culture.
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Faculty Friday: Lotta Gavel Adams
UW Scandinavian Studies Department's Lotta Gavel Adams unfolds the evolution of trolls in literature from fearsome forest-dwellers to friendly beings—and back again.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trolls
A UW professor offers a complete history of Scandinavia's mythical beasts.
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The Trouble with Sympathy
A Germanics course explores how sympathy can be used for good but can also serve a darker purpose.
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Why do we cry on airplanes?
Stephen Groening, Professor of Cinema and Media, has studied how inflight entertainment might have unique effects on travelers.
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Faculty Friday: Jennifer Bean
“I want to recover these moments in which women were stepping out into the streets, onto the screen, and behind the camera and mobilizing."