Social Sciences Division

UW professor Alexes Harris' new book examines how fines and fees keep people imprisoned long after their sentence is through.

This year, the annual Airbnb conference, OpenAir, will focus on a different challenge for the company and the tech industry: diversity and inclusion.

"What do Flint, Mich., and Victoria, B.C., have in common? Huge water-quality problems that suddenly are getting some attention," write UW professors Nives Dolsak.

Challenging perceptions about the academic contributions of men of color and student athletes.

Ashley Bobman, who will graduate from the University of Washington this week, has helped to create the first-ever online exhibit of the new Sephardic Studies Digital Museum.

The world’s cities are collecting ever-increasing amounts of data, and it is time for mechanisms to prevent abuse writes Associate Professor Philip Howard.

A new book by the UW's Alexes Harris (sociology) chronicles how scores of former inmates and the people they harmed are jointly cheated by a cyclical and cynical state-sponsored debt spiral.

Airbnb banned a host in North Carolina Wednesday after he used racist language to tell a woman who had just booked a room she was not welcome because she was black.

Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim co-published a piece on developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logics.

Trade supporters are pushing the geopolitical importance of a sweeping Asia-Pacific agreement in an effort to save the deal from defeat. Fabio Ghironi, professor of economics at the UW, is quoted.

"Here is the problem, simply put: there are not enough analysts to make sense of every ship or activity at sea; nor enough government assets to persistently monitor them all,"

City councils, local businesses and Indian tribes have turned against plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.

Current state of Ottoman Jews in light of the political climate in Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Professor Devin Naar is quoted.

One sentence in a 1986 mass-market magazine continues to sway court cases involving sex offenders.

Thanks to the work of UW geographer Kam Wing Chan, we know Shanghai, Beijing and other urban areas in China discriminate against the children of low-income migrant workers in public education.