Social Sciences Division

Recent honors for College of Arts & Sciences faculty and staff. 

The Seattle Globalist, founded at the UW, reports on pressing political and social issues through the lens of diverse contributors. 

UW senior Rhoya Sarikhani Selden explored her Persian heritage in a play that celebrates Iranian Americans from diverse backgrounds. 

Adrian Raftery receives Ireland's St. Patrick's Day Medal for contributions to statistics 

A Suzzallo Library exhibit created by history grad student Jessica Bachman highlights Cold War-era cultural ties between India and the USSR. 

UW professors Christopher Sebastian Parker and David Domke joined Wellspring Family Services vice president R. Keith Myers to discuss the question: Is President Trump gaslighting us?

"A major detractor to Americans’ sex lives has been the rising necessity of the two-income family, said Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington."

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

Paul Burstein, professor emeritus of sociology, studies social movements and protests. He says demonstrations alone are likely too predictable to have an effect here. 

Days before Trump's inauguration, Jack Turner, associate professor of poli-sci, noticed that one of his students was upset after she'd seen neo-Nazi recruitment flyers outside.

President Trump has tweeted about ISIS since 2014, claiming that he alone can fix this problem. Michael Degerald, doctoral candidate in Middle East studies at UW, weighs in.

Why does female genital mutilation remain so entrenched in parts of the globe? Bettina Shell-Duncan, professor of anthropology at UW, is quoted.

KOMO Radio interviews Sabine Lang, associate professor of international studies at the UW, about the Women's March and why it was held across the world. 

"Research into civil resistance suggests five reasons the Women’s March may succeed as a movement where others have failed," writes Emily Gade, poli-sci student at UW.

Margaret O'Mara, associate professor of history, is interviewed on "The National" on the history of signing executive orders in a president's first week in office.