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Projects

Crowds watching oil fields accident, smoke coming out of oil rigs. Circa 1920

CMS-iSchool Joint Graduate Conference in Media Technologies

Communication, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cosmopolitanism, Current Events, Digital Humanities
Project leads Lynn and Danny working together at a table

Unthinkable Films

Cinema, Cinema Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
A white square surrounded by dark walls.

Transformative Education Behind Bars

Current Events, Democracy, Human Rights, Prison Studies
In a magenta lit room one woman sits on the ground with a laptop and the other stands while wearing a white futuristic garment.

Soft Data and Common Wares

Current Events, Data Sciences, Digital Humanities, DXARTS, Textile Studies

Articles

Indigenous Resistance

Gender Violence and Indigenous Resistance

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Current Events
All images courtesy of Tad Hirsch’s “A Well-Regulated Militia.”

The Instagram Militia and the Limits of Empathy

Digital Humanities, Public Scholarship, Visual Culture, Current Events, Cultural Studies
Rachel Arteaga

Alt-Ac Retrospective

Humanities, Current Events
Map of the world with books in the background.

Global Literatures & Global Literacies

Current Events, Language and Literature, Pedagogy
Abstract windframe

NEW Summer Funding Opportunities for Faculty

Current Events, COVID-19
Profile picture of William D. Adams standing outside wearing a brown suit and tie.

NEH Chairman on Democracy, the Humanities, and the Public Good

Current Events
Three people wearing black hats and black masks hold signs while standing in front of a mural depicting a woman with long hair reading a book.

2014 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities Explores Indigenous Histories, Politics, and Arts

Current Events, Undergraduate Education
Screenshot of Zoom room with nine screens, each with a participant of the online workshop.

Feminist Media Histories Marks Its Move to UW with an Online Workshop on Affect

Feminisms, Current Events
Crowd of anti-social-distancing protesters in Ohio yelling behind closed glass doors

Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse

COVID-19, Neoliberalism, Current Events
A black and white image of Type Designer Jean François Porchez with the French words on the left hand side.

Type Designer Jean François Porchez in Residence at the UW

Design, Art, Current Events

People

Ayda smiling at the camera in a beige blazer and white shirt, curly hair pulled halfway back and a gray background

Ayda Apa Pomeshikov (she/her/hers)

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Immigration, Middle East, Peace, Violence, and Security, Religion, Social Justice
Close-up portrait of Gözde in black white. She is smiling at the camera with her hair parted to the side, half in front of her shoulder and on the other side behind her shoulder.

Gözde Burcu Ege

Burcu is in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Near and Middle East Studies.

Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Globalization, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Middle East, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Peace, Violence, and Security, Social Justice