Social Sciences Division

What will the ramifications of a Donald Trump presidency be on United States foreign policy and its place in the world?

UW Arts & Sciences faculty members weigh in on whether President-elect Trump's election means doomsday. 

The UW Department of American Ethnic Studies released a post-election statement on undocumented students. 

For the first time in more than 30 years, more people voted for the candidates for governor in Washington than for the listed candidates for president.

David Horsey — a Seattle native and UW alumnus —  has been covering presidential politics since 1980, but he has never experienced anything like this campaign.

As a member of the state’s Electoral College, political science student Varisha Khan may be one of the people with a direct role in the formal selection of the next president.

UW Economics and Jackson School alum Matt Bannick, who is managing partner of the Omidyar Network, shares his approach to philanthropy in Silicon Valley.

UW Communication Professor Patricia Moy was elected as VP/President-Elect of the International Communication Association (ICA). Moy is the first UW faculty member to serve in this role.

A new look at New Deal ‘redlining’ maps offers insight into subtle racism's not-so-subtle predecessor.

A national conservative group has sent mailers to some state voters disclosing their and their neighbors’ voting history, trying to pressure them to vote.

Following two disastrous seasons, the "Married at First Sight" Season 4 reunion special ended with good news: Two couples are still married six months later.

Nearly two years after the feds decried a system of preying on the desperate to fund the local government in Ferguson, Missouri, being poor can still get you locked up in the state.

Mark Plummer's interdisciplinary celebrates his life and work.

What happens when what you’re taught in school contradicts what you were taught by your family and community?

Devin Naar, professor of Sephardic studies at the UW, explores the fate of Salonica’s Jews and offers insight into how he uncovered the lost sources necessary to write his new book.