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Alexes Harris Professor of Sociology

Sociology Professor Alexes Harris appointed UW’s first Faculty Regent

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David Takeuchi Receives Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contributions to Mental Health Services

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Get to Know CERSE

Scholarship in SSTEM award from NSF

UW Statistics to co-lead NSF-funded Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science

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Rodney Stark: A Reckless Eclectic Remembered

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How many homeless people are in King County? Depends who you ask

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Q&A: New book from UW professor examines history, consequences of fifth columns

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Social cohesion found to be key risk factor in early COVID infections

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Fifty Years of Relationships with Pepper Schwartz

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Katherine Beckett: Ending Mass Incarceration is Ambitious but Doable

Zack Almquist

Zack Almquist Receives Faculty Early Career Development Award

Theresa Rocha Beardall

Theresa Rocha Beardall receives NDIAS faculty fellowship

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Adrian Raftery wins 2022 Mindel C. Sheps Award

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How Black Lives Matter protests sparked interest, can lead to change

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Multi-state study of monetary sanctions finds widespread inequities, far-reaching consequences

County revenue from legal fines based on 2019 data

Counties that rely on the courts for revenue sentence more women to incarceration

The University of Washington welcomed its most diverse cohort of new tenure-track faculty in 2021. Among the new hires are assistant professors (l-r) Jelani Ince, sociology, Esther Uduehi, marketing, and Angelic Amezcua, Spanish.

Faculty programs welcome most diverse cohort in UW history

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GoFundMe Requests for Help With Medical Bills Rarely Hit Their Goals: Study
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Zack Almquist Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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No, divorce rates in Washington didn’t rise during the pandemic

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Continuing the Tradition: Teaching Fellows Create a “Teaching Toolkit” for UW Sociology

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Almquist Receives ASA's 2021 Goodman Award

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Professor Alexes Harris works closely with UW Athletics to help student-athletes succeed

From left to right: Magda Boutros, Jelani Ince, Theresa Rocha Beardall

Sociology Welcomes New Faculty Members