Social Justice

The latest installment in a regular report on political mobilization in the United States. Emily Gade, a graduate student in the UW Department of Political Science, is an author. 

The alt-right has an unlikely new martyr in the culture wars: A Harvard-educated engineer in the heart of Silicon Valley. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted. 

Meet Jessica Ramirez: The UW alum fighting for human rights and social justice alongside the first indigenous-led farm worker union in WA State. 

UW sociology professor Katherine Beckett's research is mentioned in this editorial from Seattle Councilmember, Sally Bagshaw, about "Fair Chance Housing" legislation. 

A Women's Center report addresses human trafficking in Washington state. 

Assistant Professor of History, Laurie Marhoefer, on the history of gay pride marches and movements.
 

Since 1932, the President’s Medal has been awarded to the graduating senior who has achieved the most distinguished academic record at the university. Meet this year's awardee.

Historians of labor, working class to convene at UW

Alexes Harris of UW department of sociology weighs in on a potential fee waiver for indigent and other needy criminal defendants in Los Angeles County.

At the University of Washington, students are learning to navigate the hazards of our information-addled age.

Bill Radke speaks with professor Cheryl Kaiser from the psychology department at the University of Washington about the bystander effect. 

Relive the one-hundredth anniversary of the Everett Massacre and learn how that tragic event helped shape the labor history of Washington.

UW sociology researcher, Tim Thomas, on a migration of historic proportions—African-Americans leaving central Seattle and being pushed south, driven by high rents.

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.

The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.