Social Sciences Division

A new podcast from the University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies explores issues of Jewish life, with anti-Semitism — at home and abroad, presently and in history — the topic of its first season.

“The celebration of Trump at CPAC was also a eulogy to Rush Limbaugh. No one, after all, did more to give birth to the movement that the ex-president claims as his own,” writes Scott Montgomery, lecturer of international studies at the UW.

This week at the UW, attend the final lecture in the Protest, Race, and Citizenship Across African Worlds series, UW Dance Presents, and more.

Tami Hohn, assistant teaching professor of American Indian Studies, has helped to create a new street sign for a newly renamed campus road.

Kemi Adeyemi, gender, women, & sexuality studies professor, is featured in the Daily for her work at the UW.

“The current system of [legal] fines and fees has created an albatross around the necks of the state’s lowest income residents,” writes columnist Naomi Ishisaka. UW sociology professor Alexes Harris is quoted.

The nation’s first motto was “E pluribus unum.” What does that mean? Scott Lemieux, assistant teaching professor of political science at the UW, is quoted.

On March 6, 1930, International Unemployment Day, the demonstrators outside the White House and in many U.S. cities were met with violence. UW history professor James Gregory is quoted.

Felix Mercado looks back on attending what was known as the “Spanish School,” a school that was built in 1936 specifically to segregate Mexican migrants from white people. Gonzalo Guzmán, a predoctoral instructor in American ethnic studies at the UW, is interviewed.

Take a look back at the last year of the UW's research of and adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate banking committee on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated that the economy is “a long way from the Fed’s employment and inflation goals.” As Congress debates the next round of coronavirus relief funding, some prominent economists have raised concerns about its potential impact on inflation. Fabio Ghironi, professor of economics at the UW, is interviewed.

Sam Colgan, junior majoring in English and Economics; Natasha Lavides, sophomore majoring in Psychlogy; and Nuria Alina Chandra, freshman majoring in biochemistry are the 2019-2020 UW President's Medalists.

Smadar Ben-Natan, a postdoctoral fellow in Israel studies in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, Holly Arsenault, director of engagement for the School of Drama, and José Alaniz, professor of Slavic languages and literatures have all recieved recent honors.

This week at the UW, join music history Professor Dr. Anne Searcy for a lecture about the dance of Hamilton, and visit UW museums that have recently reopened.

"In early February, The Seattle Times published a report that provides a preliminary glimpse at who has had access to the first set of COVID-19 vaccines that were doled out. As much as I want to tell myself that this is an incomplete picture and that the first set of vaccines is reflective of a strategy to inoculate first responders and medical personnel, I still feel that the preliminary rollout failed to address a key consideration: namely, the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on people of color and economically marginalized folks," writes Oscar Rosales Castañeda, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW.