Social Sciences Division

Margaret O'Mara of the UW History Department weighs in.

UW 360 profile of  Dulce Gutiérrez, the UW alumnus quickly making a name for herself as a rising political leader in her central Washington hometown of Yakima.

An international team of scientists, including one from the UW, has announced the discovery of additional remains of a new human species.

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.

The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.

The Sacred Breath series features Native American writers and storytellers, with an upcoming event on May 10.

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Clark Sorensen, director of the Center for Korea Studies at the UW, about North Korea-U.S. relations.

As Bonderman Fellows, Saige and Havana are provided stipends for a minimum of 8 months of travel with the only mandate being that they visit at least two regions of the globe.

Debate team claims 2017 Novice National Champion title

Professor of sociology, Alexes Harris, leads a team of researchers at nine universities who are exploring the role of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system. 

Marcos Llobera brings landscapes of the past to life through cutting-edge computational methods and digital archeology 

UW history professor, Jim Gregory, on the election, activism, and historical perspective.

UW study suggests that monitoring, and potentially treating, the monkeys that co-exist with humans in affected parts of the world may be part of the global strategy.

Saadia Pekkanen, Job and Gertrude Tamaki professor at the Jackson School for International Studies, on US-Japan relations in the Abe-Trump era

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Glennys Young, professor of history and international studies at the UW, about U.S. relations with Russia.