Social Sciences Division

History professor Robin Stacey’s love of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work led to a popular course and now a five-part lecture series.

Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl. 

Alumnus Don Logan, who spent years teaching Seattle public schools after earning two history degrees at the UW, has endowed a chair in the Department of History. 

After 51 years, a Communications Building time capsule will be opened during Washington Weekend, and a new capsule prepared by students will be installed. 

Just before graduating last spring, Julia Parker created a community service award for future philosophy students, raising the funds for the award herself. 

UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. 

American Indian Studies offers a course on the history and significance of pow wow, which includes working on one of the University's two annual pow wow events. 

Sociology professor Katherine Stovel studies teens’ sexual behavior and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. 

Philosophy professor William Talbott’s new book suggests that some rights should be universal, regardless of national, religious, or cultural differences. 

A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place. 

Award-winning author Sherman Alexie joins the Department of American Ethnic Studies as a senior artist-in-residence.

After Frith Maier retraced adventurer George Kennan's 1870 route through the Caucasus Mountains, the journey became the basis of her UW master's thesis and a new book.

Anthropology professor Lorna Rhodes explores the challenges faced by prisoners and prison staff in a maximum security prison.