Social Sciences Division

UW sociology professor Katherine Beckett's research is mentioned in this editorial from Seattle Councilmember, Sally Bagshaw, about "Fair Chance Housing" legislation. 

Op-ed by Christopher Parker of the Department of Political Science

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Daniel Bessner, assistant professor of international studies at the UW, about Russian relations with the U.S.

The true cultural tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution might not have been the Boston Tea Party, but Congress' decision to close the theaters in British America.

For UW History professor, Nathan Roberts, past is prologue. 

Punitive discipline, inadequate curriculum, and declining federal funding created an education crisis.

Salon talks to Christopher Parker about why the Democrats should "play the race card" in the next election

Carole Lee, a philosopher at the UW, and David Moher, of the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, argue that publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.

A team of researchers, including a faculty member and seven students from UW, have found artifacts in Australia that indicate humans arrived there about 65,000 years ago.

A Women's Center report addresses human trafficking in Washington state. 

Anthropology professor, Janelle Taylor, started researching dementia about 10 years ago, after her own mother's diagnosis of dementia.

International Studies Professor, Saadia Pekkanen, on how Japan is targeting independence in space-based information.

In an era when the growth in the population of blacks, Latinos and Asians outpaces that of whites nationwide, a new study of who lives where provides insight into the geography of race.

Assistant Professor of History, Laurie Marhoefer, on the history of gay pride marches and movements.
 

Using just the text of a bill plus about a dozen other variables, a new artificial intelligence algorithm can determine the chance that a bill will become law with great precision.