News Archive

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Pacific Northwest Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
Dr. Knaphus-Soran and Dr. Litzler to Lead a 5-Year Action-Oriented Research Project on Persistence of Minoritized Students in STEM
Cara Margherio portrait photo
Margherio Named Virtual Visiting Scholar for the ARC Network
Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans
Beckett and Evans' Research Upends Death Penalty in Washington State
Sarah Diefendorf
Sarah Diefendorf, PhD '18, draws on social science research in an op-ed about masculinity and Brett Kavanaugh's response to allegations of sexual assault
Callie Burt
"Why We Stay Silent After Sexual Assault"  Callie Burt Weighs In On the Kavenaugh Case
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Sara Curran elected Vice President of the Population Association of America
Miyamoto Professor Katherine Beckett
Beckett Op-Ed on Restorative Justice in the Seattle Times
Hannah Curtis, Michelle Cadigan, John Leverso
Curtis Awarded NSF Fellowship
Toshio
Distinguished Sociologist Toshio Yamagishi, UW PhD '81, Dies at 70
portraits of Katherine Beckett and Frank Miyamoto overlay photo of the quad
Beckett Appointed S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology
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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
Hamilton Cover
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