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Campus totem pole, law school building, and new Burke Museum
Announcing Funding Awards for 2018-19
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
We are delighted to announce our full funding awards for the 2018-19 academic year.
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Video: Charles W. Mills on Liberalism and Racial Justice
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The philosopher speaks as part of a year-long exploration of race and capitalism.
Mother holds the hands of her two children as they walk in Queens
Students Organize Spanish Film Festival for High School
Thursday, May 17, 2018
UW graduate students curate films for Seattle’s most diverse high school, discovering a new way to bring their scholarship to public audiences.
Partnership entry on dictionary page, courtesy Medicine Anthropology Theory
‘Medicine Anthropology Theory’ Publishes UW Scholars on Global-Health Partnerships
Thursday, May 17, 2018
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.
Man stands near rubble in ruined tower
Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Anthropologist Danny Hoffman photographs urban forms to show how our lives are shaped by the spaces we inhabit.
Welcome to Visiting Scholar Anca Cristofovici
Monday, May 14, 2018
Cristofovici, an accomplished scholar and novelist, will study the books in the Special Collection of UW Libraries for a project on artists’ books and independent publishers in the Pacific Northwest.
Sasha Su-Ling Welland Tracks Art in ‘Experimental Beijing’ through New Book and Website
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Sasha Su-Ling Welland (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has a new book with Duke University Press about experimental
‘American Sabor’ Bilingual Book Chronicles Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music
Thursday, April 5, 2018
A long-running exploration of the contributions of Latinas and Latinos to US pop music has taken the form of a new bilingual book from the University of Washington Press.
Brian Reed
Video: Brian Reed on Poetry and Birds
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The preeminent poetry scholar and UW Chair of English delivered "Sing Along: Poetry and Birds," a Katz Distinguished Lecture.
Paul Farmer speaks at podium
Stopping Infectious Disease Requires ‘Staff, Space, Stuff, and Systems,’ Paul Farmer Argues (With Video)
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The Partners in Health founder draws on history, anthropology, and clinical field work in a series of conversations with UW scholars about global-health inequities.

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