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The Simpson Center for the Humanities recently granted funding to the department’s Gender and Sexuality Graduate Research Cluster. Working groups play a critical role in cultivating community among graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. The working group, originally established in 2014, includes students... Read more
Washington has enacted a number of police reforms since George Floyd was murdered one year ago. Among them is a mandatory 8-hour course, broken up into sessions, for police recruits on the history of racism and policing. Alexes Harris, professor of sociology at the UW, is mentioned.
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When Zack Almquist joined our faculty last spring, he realized a cherished ambition: rejoining the academy while solving the so-called “two-body problem.” As an interdisciplinary scholar grounded in mathematics, statistics, and sociology, Zack combines modern social network analysis with demography to investigate how populations interact, often in novel... Read more
This course will be offered in the summer and taught by Michele Cadigan. Read on for the description of the course:
Poor communities of color, particularly Black communities have been devastated by the phenomenon called mass incarceration as individuals are being removed from their families and within these communities at a disproportionate rate. Even more, others return from jail and prison... Read more
Seven courageous students started our graduate program last fall, at the height of the pandemic. From virtual orientations to remote classes, online TA duties and Zoom stats study session, their first year experiences have been like no other. Most still haven’t set foot on campus or inside Savery Hall, let alone met their colleagues in person. How have they navigated the challenges of... Read more
The last time Ann Frost, a lecturer in the Sociology Department and Law, Societies, and Justice, taught a course that focused on juvenile justice she and twelve UW undergraduate students traveled to the Monroe Correctional Complex as part of a mixed-enrollment class with men who were incarcerated. Three years later, she’s teaching in a completely different context: now it’s a large lecture... Read more
Article published by Xinguan Fan and Maria Vignau Loria wins 2021 IPUMS Global Health Research Award
Graduate students, Xinguan Fan and Maria Vignau Loria published an article "Intimate Partner Violence and Contraceptives Use in Developing Countries: How does the Relationship Depend on Context?" last February, which we have been thrilled to hear was selected as the 2021 winner of the ... Read more
It’s not unusual for sociologists to discover their calling late. Musicians, mathematicians, artists, and doctors may know even as kids what they will be when they grow up, but there just aren’t a lot of youngsters dressing up as sociologists for Halloween. Of course, you don’t find a lot of longitudinal data play sets at Toys R Us, either. Sociology is disadvantaged when it comes to kid appeal.... Read more
This week at the UW, attend a Sports & Civil Rights History Panel, Drive-In at On the Boards, and more.
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Alexes Harris' essay in Vox breaks down the "pretext traffic stop," which is typically when law enforcement stop a vehicle for a minor traffic or equipment violation and then uses the stop to investigate a more serious crime. Recent studies suggest that non-safety related traffic stops do little to prevent accidents or increase driver safety. In light of the killing of Daunte Wright in... Read more