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Gemanics doctoral student Kristina Pilz writes about the needs of multilingual students and performance-based pedagogy.

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. American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music (2018) marks...

“If I had to sum up what I do in the classroom,” said Cris Borges, History faculty member at North Seattle College, “I would simply say that I help students see under the hood of my discipline.” During a February...

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (Interdisciplinary Program in Near & Middle Eastern Studies) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Pennsylvania following the completion of his PhD this spring. Aguirre-Mandujano has been closely involved in Simpson...

Michael D. Aguirre, a doctoral student in History, has received a dissertation fellowship from the Center for Engaged Scholarship, an organization of social scientists that builds connections between academics and progressive change agents. The $25,000 award recognizes dissertation work that...

Farmer, one of the world’s most influential thinkers on global health and a co-founder of the organization Partners in Health, held a series of conversations last week with a group of UW scholars examining global health through the lenses of...

Journalists turn to UW’s Nora Kenworthy and Lauren Berliner to understand the rise of crowdfunding campaigns for health care costs.

Stephen Groening (Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media) has developed a new graduate seminar based on his work as a 2017 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities. The fellowship, part of the Simpson Center’s Reimagining the Humanities...

UW PhD candidate Zhenzhen He-Weatherford reflects on the educational contexts and possibilities that might exceed the superficial celebration and continued marginalization of minoritized populations.

As a Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics in the Humanities, I have a goal this year to help develop better resources for community college students looking to transfer to the University of Washington. This work has led me to...

Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology) has received the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association for her book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin.

To me, my community college experience was positive, formative, eye-opening, and grounding.