News Archive

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Professor Harris Receives 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award
Barbara Reskin weighs in on the impact of overtime on the city of Seattle's gender wage gap
Great Good Place
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, by Ray Oldenburg.  Recommended by Ulrika O'Brien
Christine
Leibbrand and Tolnay's work on the impact of the Great Migration on second generation outcomes published in Demography, highlighted on CityLab
Pepper
In the News:  Pepper Schwartz weighs in on #Metoo and issues of sexual consent
No Place Like Home cover
No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership.  Written by our Visiting Scholar Brian J. McCabe
Sing Ubruried Sing
Sing, Uburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, both by Jesmyn Ward.  Recommended by Judy Howard
Bob Crutchfield
Bob Crutchfield Wins Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology
Nathalie Williams
In the News:  Williams and Pfaff Describe Impact of GOP Tax bill on Graduate Education at UW in Seattle Times op-ed
No Money, No Vote: How Imposed Fines, Fees and Cost Keep Black People From Voting
Spiritual Virtuoso
The Spirtual Virtuoso:  Personal Faith and Social Transformation.  By Steve Pfaff and Marion Goldman, reviewed by Susan Pitchford
Liz Litzler's photo
Flipping the Script on Deficit Models of Student Success
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Making Money:  How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy.  Written by Emeritus Professor Gary Hamilton and Cheng-Shu Kao
CapeTown
UW brings the Data Revolution to the International Population Conference in Cape Town
Children
Ande Reisman's Dispatch from the Field:  Liminal in Nepal
Kashima
Adjunct Professor Tetsuden Kashima honored with Imperial Decorations by the Government of Japan
air pollution
Sociology led team reveals how air pollution impacts mental health
How air pollution clouds mental health
Luther
On the Quincentennial of Luther's 95 theses, Steve Pfaff discusses how Luther's spiritual practice helped spread the Reformation.
Twitter immigration collage
Using a clever design and twitter data, Flores' research reveals how anti-immigration laws embolden those with anti-immigrant sentiments.  
Using Facebook data as a real-time census
An American Sickness
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  Recommended to us by Donna Shalala
Emilio Zagheni
Emilio Zagheni's work leverages Facebook advertising data to estimate migrant populations
Tolnay Retirement
Tolnay Symposium and Reception: Program of Events
Tolnay Retirement
An Appreciation of Stew Tolnay, Written by María Vignau Loría