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Rossy Sierra, undergraduate Sociology and Public Policy 2026, has been chosen to be a 2026 Bonderman fellow. Each year, a small group of students at the University of Washington are provided a rare opportunity to travel independently as a Bonderman Fellow. The Bonderman Fellowship was created by David Bonderman, a UW alumnus, and has funded and allowed students the opportunity to go on life-…
The Department of Sociology is partnering with Sound Transit to survey the community about how public transit experiences connect with people's well-being. We are collecting survey data because we want to help make and keep our Puget Sound area a great place to live for ourselves, our families, and our neighbors.Learn more about the the survey here.
The UW Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Yuanxi Li (BA Honors Sociology and BS Informatics 2026, incoming graduate student) is one of only four students to receive the Dean's Medal for the 2025-26 academic school year. The award is representative of her personal commitment and significant academic achievements."Receiving the Dean's Medal is an incredible honor and a deeply…
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce Associate Professor Theresa Rocha Beardall has received the highly competitive William T. Grant Scholars Program Award. for her project, Who Decides What We Teach? Indian Boarding Schools and the Native Fight for Educational Justice in Washington State. Rocha Beardall was selected from a pool of 153 applicants nationwide, a recognition…
Article published in the Seattle Times on April 8, 2026, by Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Seattle Times staff reporter:Fatal police violence against Indigenous people in the United States is significantly concentrated in and around reservations, a new study found. Roughly 3 in 4 Native people killed by police from 2013 through 2024 were on or within 10 miles of a reservation, despite…
Fatal police violence against Indigenous people in the United States is significantly concentrated in and around reservations, a new study found.Theresa Rocha Beardall, associate professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted. Featured
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The following article is from UW Magazine March 2026 issue, it was written by Hannelore Sudermann with photos by John Lok No Time to Waste After more than two decades in prison, Benjamin Brockie begins again—as a student, a father and an advocate for education and Indigenous justice. The last time Benjamin Brockie saw his grandmother, she…
Indigenous people in the United States are at higher risk of fatal police violence in and around American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) reservations, according to the first comprehensive national study on the subject from researchers at the University of Washington and Drexel University. The researchers found that roughly 73% AIAN people killed by police violence were on or within 10 miles of a…
The first comprehensive national study on fatal police violence in and around American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) reservations, from researchers at the UW and Drexel University, found that roughly 73% of AIAN people killed by police violence were on or within 10 miles of a reservation. Theresa Rocha Beardall, co-author and UW associate professor of sociology, is quoted.
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UW Sociology Professor Theresa Rocha Beardall co-authored an article, Heightened Risk of Fatal Police Violence in and Around Reservations for American Indian/Alaska Native Peoples of the United States, which was recently published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Volume 123, No. 11. The research and article are significant because one in 1,800 indigenous men…