Social Sciences Division

Experts, including UW political scientists, weigh in on the recent government shut down and what the outcomes of past shutdowns have been.

With Hey Mentor, an online mentoring program, Kevin Truong (BA, 2016) is helping students prepare for college. 

Taber Hand (MA, 1983) has found a cost-effective solution for sewage treatment in challenging settings.

Two scientists at the UW unveiled a new statistical method for estimating migration flows between countries

Communications Alumna Jessica Estrada is featured in Columns.

The UW Center for Human Rights is teaching a new generation to use the Freedom of Information Act.

Analysis from international studies lecturer, Scott Montgomery

Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara. 

UW associate professor of philosophy, Sara Goering, to lead team studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.

Op-ed by UW political scientist, Christopher Parker, on the 2020 elections

Op-ed by Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs; Aseem Prakash and Steven Karceski, Center for Environmental Politics

A study by an international team of researchers, including from the UW, determines that carved stone tools were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago.

Analysis from Professor of International Studies, Saadia Pekkanen

A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the UW who studies U.S. electoral history weighs in on the gender breakdown in the recent elections.