News: Faculty and Staff

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Continuing the Tradition: Teaching Fellows Create a “Teaching Toolkit” for UW Sociology
October 5, 2021
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Almquist Receives ASA's 2021 Goodman Award
October 4, 2021
Portrait of Alexes Harris against a dark teal background. She is smiling and looking off to the left.
Professor Alexes Harris works closely with UW Athletics to help student-athletes succeed
September 23, 2021
From left to right: Magda Boutros, Jelani Ince, Theresa Rocha Beardall
Sociology Welcomes New Faculty Members
September 23, 2021
A man receives a vaccination in East Hollywood, Los Angeles last week
The Delta variant and ‘breakthrough’ infections: should Americans be worried?
August 5, 2021
People in cars wait at a Covid testing and vaccination site at Barnett Park in Orlando, Florida
Covid cases in US may have been undercounted by 60%, study shows
July 26, 2021
Security and police try to prevent supporters from entering a homeless encampment as the camp's occupants await possible eviction by police after workers enclosed the area with a fence, at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, June 22, 2021.
Opinion: The Trinity Bellwoods crackdown was not surprising — but there is a better way to respond to encampments
July 10, 2021
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How long can a person live? The 21st century may see a record-breaker
July 6, 2021
A demonstrator holds their hands up while they kneel in front of the police at the Anaheim City Hall on June 1, 2020 in Anaheim, California, during a peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd. (Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty Images)
An Inside Look At Washington State's Policing And Race Curriculum For Recruits
May 25, 2021
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Zack Almquist Solving the Three-Body Problem
May 12, 2021
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Ann Frost on the Subtle Shifts in Teaching Spurred by COVID
May 10, 2021
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David Takeuchi's Long and Winding Road
May 4, 2021
Washington State’s Supreme Court Building, also known as the Temple of Justice, photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Olympia, Wash. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut)
After Blake, will Washington state repay victims of the war on drugs?
April 8, 2021
Washington high court charts less punitive path on juvenile justice
April 1, 2021
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UW Sociology ranks highly in US News’ ‘Best Graduate School’ lists
March 29, 2021
Mary and Antonio Aramburu in Federal Way with their seven children
How the pandemic has changed Washington families for better, for worse … forever?
March 13, 2021
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Takeuchi Tracking Anti-Asian Racism During Pandemic
March 12, 2021
Community members hold a press conference addressing an upcoming Seattle City Council vote on an agreement between the Seattle Police Officers Guild and the city of Seattle at City Hall, Nov. 13, 2018.
Podcast | When defunding the police meets Seattle’s political reality
January 28, 2021
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Police contact at a young age leads to different outcomes for Black youth
January 22, 2021
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Can You Find True, Lasting Love on Tinder? Study Finds It's Possible
January 7, 2021
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Bob Crutchfield's Community Engagement During Retirement
December 21, 2020
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In a time of isolation, finding communion
December 15, 2020
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Early police stops had long-term consequences for Seattle’s Black youth, UW research shows
December 2, 2020
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The 2020 census: deadlines, politics and what may come next
November 19, 2020
The Criminal Legal System as a Social Problem
November 12, 2020
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Teaching and Learning During COVID-19
October 7, 2020
Q&A: Alexes Harris on defunding police, racial disparities in criminal justice
September 28, 2020
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Meet our new Assistant Professor, Patricia Louie
September 23, 2020
Muslim woman holding an American flag and raising her hand to take the citizenship oath
Steve Pfaff's Op-Ed in the Washington Post Highlights His Research on Discrimination Against Muslim and Atheist Families in US Schools 
September 14, 2020
Malone Muwkende, a medical student at St. George's University of London
How Bias In Medical Textbooks Endangers BIPOC
August 31, 2020
Are Black Lives Matter protesters peaceful or violent? Depends on whom you ask.
August 24, 2020
How the pandemic is changing relationships
July 10, 2020
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Sarah Quinn's American Bonds Wins Two Major Awards
July 7, 2020
Protesters outside the Seattle West Precinct with their fists raised in the air
Alexes Harris: Companies Can Keep Their Hollow Statements on Racism. We Need Real Change.
June 17, 2020
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Department Chair's Message in the Wake of Protests Against Police Violence
June 2, 2020
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Zack Almquist Receives NSF Grant for Study of Behaviors in Response to COVID-19
April 28, 2020
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What the Most Vulnerable Populations Can Tell Us About the COVID-19 Outbreak
April 1, 2020
With coronavirus, prison and jail sentences could become death sentences
March 31, 2020
Detroit, New York City, and Chicago
Christine Leibbrand Looks at Segregation and Life Outcomes in The Conversation
January 8, 2020
‘Divorce Month’ Fact or Fiction: Do More Couples Split in January?
January 4, 2020
Op-ed: What happens when black Americans leave their segregated hometowns
December 11, 2019
NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Tyler McCormick Awarded an NIH Director's New Innovator Award
October 7, 2019
American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
Sarah Quinn Discusses Credit Markets in ASA Interview
July 17, 2019
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Alexes Harris Named University's Faculty Athletic Representative 
July 12, 2019
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Margherio Named Virtual Visiting Scholar for the ARC Network
October 31, 2018
Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans
Beckett and Evans' Research Upends Death Penalty in Washington State
October 23, 2018
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Beckett Appointed S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology
April 25, 2018
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Professor Harris Receives 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award
April 25, 2018
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Leibbrand and Tolnay's work on the impact of the Great Migration on second generation outcomes published in Demography, highlighted on CityLab
January 28, 2018
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In the News:  Pepper Schwartz weighs in on #Metoo and issues of sexual consent
January 28, 2018

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