Social Sciences Division

Pepper Schwartz talks about planning weddings, even when there's no wedding to plan.

Facebook released Facebook Lite, a 'slimmed-down' version of its app that gives users in low-data areas increased access to Facebook. UW's Katy Pearce, professor of communication, is quoted.

Seattle is known as home to some of the world’s most successful corporations, but also to some of the most vigorous anti-capitalist protests. UW history professor Margaret O'Mara is quoted.

Native graduate students can face many challenges while completing their degrees. Stephanie Fryberg, professor of American Indian studies at the UW, is quoted.

How you carry yourself in a job interview makes as much of an impression as the words you say. Valerie Manusov, a communications professor at the UW, is quoted.

Newly minted UW alum Austin Williams has built What's Good 206 into a go-to website for positive stories.

Danny initially came to the UW thinking he wanted to go into law enforcement, but soon turned to anthropology where he realized he could learn about, and stay connected to, his Samoan ancestry.

As its six cross-listings might suggest — ANTH 328 / GWSS 328 / JSIS 328 / ANTH 528 / GWSS 528 / JSIS 528 — Gender and Sexuality in China is no ordinary class.

The Atlantic published an interview with Bettina Shell Duncan, professor in the Biocultural Anthropology Program about her research of the past two decades on female genital cutting.

Stanley Ann Dunham pursued research in Indonesia and her son, Barack Obama, went on to become President of the United States.

Disenchanted with his career as an Audi technician, Simon Walker returned to school and discovered a passion for international studies.

With Yakima's new district-based election system, the Latino community has new-found momentum in its efforts to organize politically. Mark Smith, UW political science professor, is quoted.

The ambiguities in the dual-uses of space technology blur our understanding of Asia. They mask just who is a competent military space power in Asia today.

Elena I. Campbell, a University of Washington associate professor of history, has published her first book, which studies Russia’s policies toward Muslims in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The way people think about poverty affects both how important we think fighting poverty is. UW's Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood, geography professors, are quoted.