Social Sciences Division

First introduced as a center in 1970, American Indian Studies is now an Arts and Sciences department.

Tour downtown Seattle with Professor Michael Brown and you’ll experience the city from a rarely seen perspective, focusing on Seattle’s gay and lesbian history.

The Jackson School’s Summer Seminar for Educators, offered annually, focused on rituals this year, ranging from a North African tea service to a Day of the Dead celebration to Makah whaling traditions. 

UW joins the University of the Arctic.

Though the Native Voices program, students create film documentaries involving Indigenous research.

Students in the Jackson School's Responsible Apparel Purchasing task force explored labor issues related to the production of apparel that bears a University of Washington logo. Related stories: The President as Evaluator

The Jackson School’s Task Force Program celebrates 25 years.

In a new book, Communications professor David Domke looks at important shifts in the use of religion in political messaging, beginning in the 1980s. 

Journalism students spent the summer interning at English-language newspapers abroad--in Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and China--through an unusual scholarship in the UW Department of Communication. 

A team of UW faculty and students, along with Russian and Japanese colleagues, are piecing together a history of the isolated Kuril Islands by studying its archaeological, geological, and biological record. 

History professor Robin Stacey’s love of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work led to a popular course and now a five-part lecture series.

Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl. 

Alumnus Don Logan, who spent years teaching Seattle public schools after earning two history degrees at the UW, has endowed a chair in the Department of History.