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Lauren S. Berliner and Ron Krabill (both Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) have co-edited a new book that examines practices that integrate participatory technology with feminist approaches.

A new collection of original essays edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff (Near Eastern Language & Civilization and Comparative Literature) and Nancy E. Berg (Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Washington University) draws on diverse perspectives to probe the state of Hebrew language...

Ramps to Nowhere provides a visual documentation of the citizens who exposed the racial and class injustice of federal highway plans that targeted low-income, senior, and nonwhite neighborhoods, and who built public support to preserve major swaths of Seattle.

Twenty undergraduate students across majors and campuses spent nine weeks examining the city through the lens of “dark tourism,” which is “a way of looking at a lived landscape attuned to evidence of the underrepresented stories just below the surface.”

Gillian Harkins (English) has developed a new graduate seminar based on her work as a 2016 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities. The fellowship, part of the Simpson Center’s Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New...

Jordanna Bailkin (History) has a new book with Oxford University Press delving into the history of refugee camps in 20th century Britain. While we rarely think of Britain as a “land of camps,” as Bailkin puts it, it built dozens...

UW doctoral students students speak about their experiences of carrying their learning beyond the academy.

Anthropologist Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.

Sam Sumpter, a doctoral candidate in Philosophy, has received the Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities for dissertation research into microaggressions and trans identity.

UW graduate students curate films for Seattle’s most diverse high school, discovering a new way to bring their scholarship to public audiences.

In Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia, University of Washington anthropologist Danny Hoffman follows former fighters as they move throughout the capital making a living and finding homes in abandoned spaces.

The open-access web journal Medicine Anthropology Theory has published a themed issue led by University of Washington faculty examining the notion of “partnership” as it’s used in global health and related fields.