Department of Geography

Students in the Interdisciplinary Honors class “Citizen Acts to Challenge Poverty” collaborated with Real Change to bring the exhibit Portraits for Change.

Bo Zhao, assistant professor of geography, has created an interactive map showing the spread of cornoavirus, as well as other factors such as regional death tolls and recovery rates.

Assistant professor of geography, Bo Zhao, has created an interactive map showing the spread of coronovirus.

Assistant professor of geography, Bo Zhao, has created an interactive map of the spread of cornavirus.

UW senior Racquel West has always loved museums. Now she spends nearly every day in one.  

Kim England, the Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies at the UW, weighs in on the activism behind the Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights.

Yolanda Valencia (PhD, 2019) explores how undocumented immigrants thrive despite US policies. 

The public may balk at the sharing of social media data, but social scientists use the information to understand our world.

Taber Hand (MA, 1983) has found a cost-effective solution for sewage treatment in challenging settings.

Lauren Drakopulos, PhD candidate in the UW Department of Geography, on how story maps can help people better understand complex global issues.

Kam Wing Chan, a geography professor at the UW who studies Chinese migration, warns that the negative consequences of the eviction campaign could be severe. 

Kam Wing Chan, a geography professor who studies China’s rural-urban divide, is quoted in this New York Times article.

Kam Wing Chan, UW professor of geography, is quoted in this story about Beijing's crackdown on services for migrant schoolchidren.

In an era when the growth in the population of blacks, Latinos and Asians outpaces that of whites nationwide, a new study of who lives where provides insight into the geography of race.

What the bond between homeless people and their pets demonstrates about compassion