Social Sciences Division

UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. 

American Indian Studies offers a course on the history and significance of pow wow, which includes working on one of the University's two annual pow wow events. 

Sociology professor Katherine Stovel studies teens’ sexual behavior and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. 

Philosophy professor William Talbott’s new book suggests that some rights should be universal, regardless of national, religious, or cultural differences. 

A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place. 

Award-winning author Sherman Alexie joins the Department of American Ethnic Studies as a senior artist-in-residence.

After Frith Maier retraced adventurer George Kennan's 1870 route through the Caucasus Mountains, the journey became the basis of her UW master's thesis and a new book.

Anthropology professor Lorna Rhodes explores the challenges faced by prisoners and prison staff in a maximum security prison.

Canadian and American students collaborate through an innovative course offered jointly by the UW, Western Washington University, and University of British Columbia. 

International studies professor Mary Callahan’s new book is Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma. 

Meet the Dean's Medalists for 2002, representing the top student in each of the College's four divisions. 

UW undergraduates in the Legislative Internship Program spend winter quarter in Olympia, learning the intricacies of state politics as they intern for legislators. 

An interview with Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Angell (BA, History, International Studies, 2001).

Beloved history professor Jon Bridgman discusses his teaching, his colleagues, and more.

When A&S alumnus Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to an internment camp in 1942, he went to prison for his actions. Nearly five decades later, the government finally overturned his conviction.