Social Sciences Division

Four University of Washington professors join 172 other academics as newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the group announced Wednesday.

World leaders gathered in Paris in December to forge a global agreement to limit planet-warming carbon emissions.

Coming changes should be quite different than South Lake Union precisely because of the collaborative, community-centered work done over the past four years.

The study looked at rates of foster care nationwide and found that states with more punitive criminal justice systems tended to remove children from their homes far more often.

There is evidence that suggests non-monogamous relationships can be just as beneficial. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted. 

Jackson School faculty member Scott Montgomery says Russia is not what you think. 

Political science professor, Christopher Adolph talks about how things might change following the release of Panama Papers. 

"People are wired for love, that's why they keep coming back, despite heartbreaks and losses," says Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW. 

Graduate students from the UW are part of a research project aimed at learning how migrants use new communications technology.

"(The) number of women who had suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of state agents was surprising," writes Hind Ahmed Zaki, doctoral student in political science at the UW.

Why are investors backing firms whose tech prowess amounts to little more than a website and social media team? Margaret O'Mara, associate professor of history, is quoted. 

The Pacific Northwest is at the epicenter of a push to improve global health. Margaret O’Mara, associate professor of history at the UW, is quoted. 

Professor Vincent Gallucci writes in The National Interest about the growing tension between the U.S. and Russia in the Arctic.

Sociology doctoral students found that some Seattle neighborhoods may not be so diverse when you analyze the area block by block. 

If AI is sexless. Why are the majority of the personalities we construct for these machines female? Michelle Habell-Pallán, associate professor gender, women and sexuality studies is quoted.