Social Sciences Division

Sociology major, Havana McElvaine, graduated as a student-athlete activist–and now she's getting ready to explore the world. 

For students participating in a simulated negotiation about the Cyprus conflict, the simulation felt very real.

Sarah Quinn discusses her award winning research on 'the hidden state' with UW News

The latest installment in a regular report on political mobilization in the United States. Emily Gade, a graduate student in the UW Department of Political Science, is an author. 

Asia Foreign Policy expert, Prof. David Bachman, discusses the latest signs indicating that the U.S. and North Korea are taking steps to tension.

Legislators, faculty meet for 48-hour cybersecurity bootcamp

Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history, on Centralia's founding father and his unique place in history.

We've been through this drill before–for at least three decades during the Cold War years. John Findlay, professor of history at UW, is quoted.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are in the midst of a war of words over nuclear weapons. Clark Sorensen, chair of the Korea Studies Program at the UW, is quoted. 

When U.S. presidents talk tough to foreign leaders, does it work? Jonathan Mercer, professor of political science at the UW, is quoted. 

The alt-right has an unlikely new martyr in the culture wars: A Harvard-educated engineer in the heart of Silicon Valley. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted. 

Meet Jessica Ramirez: The UW alum fighting for human rights and social justice alongside the first indigenous-led farm worker union in WA State. 

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.