Social Sciences Division

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.

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.