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Mapping American Radicalism with Historian James Gregory (Video)

Social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter operate outside of electoral politics, a phenomenon Gregory is mapping through a groundbreaking digital project.

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Suhanthie Motha Wins Book Award for Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching

Suhanthie Motha (English) has won the 2015 Critics' Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.

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Introducing Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics

A new program forges innovative forms of scholarship and teaching beyond traditional academic circles, supported by a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Humanitarian Jihad and the Problem with Essentializing Islam (Video)

Kashmiri militants tell UW anthropologist Cabeiri Robinson why they put down weapons and picked up shovels after a devastating earthquake.

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Margaret O’Mara's New Book Chronicles Four Elections That Shaped the...

Margaret O’Mara publishes new book Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century

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New Hanauer Professor and Fellows Study “Melting Port” Cities and...

Galya Diment (Slavic Languages & Literatures) leads six Hanauer Fellows in examining how cultural mixing shapes art in three port cities of the early 20th century.

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Sonal Khullar's Book Probes Artistic Practice, National Identity, and...

Sonal Khullar (Art History) has a new book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (University of California Press).

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Environmental Historian Christof Mauch Discusses Sustainability Lessons from...

Environmental history demands that we grapple with new questions, a renowned German scholar argues in a Katz Distinguished Lecture on December 2.

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Louisa Mackenzie Publication Draws Attention from Times Literary Supplement

Louisa Mackenzie’s (French & Italian) recent essay on sea monsters contributes to a lively discussion on animal studies and identity in Early Modernism.

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Prominent Japanese Artist Denied Entry to US for UW Art Conference

Artist and curator Fram Kitagawa has been denied a visa to speak at the University of Washington, allegedly due to his involvement in student protests in the 1960s. His keynote will go on as planned,...

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

William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, visits UW Friday, December, 4, 3:30 pm at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.Event URL:...

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Announcing Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2016 Attendees

Five teams of scholars will travel to Victoria, British Columbia, for the renowned training institute in June 2016.

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Humanitarian Jihad and the Problem with Essentializing Islam (Video)

Kashmiri militants tell UW anthropologist Cabeiri Robinson why they put down weapons and picked up shovels after a devastating earthquake.

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Margaret O’Mara's New Book Chronicles Four Elections That Shaped the...

Margaret O’Mara publishes new book Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century

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New Hanauer Professor and Fellows Study “Melting Port” Cities and...

Galya Diment (Slavic Languages & Literatures) leads six Hanauer Fellows in examining how cultural mixing shapes art in three port cities of the early 20th century.

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Sonal Khullar's Book Probes Artistic Practice, National Identity, and...

Sonal Khullar (Art History) has a new book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (University of California Press).

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Environmental Historian Christof Mauch Discusses Sustainability Lessons from...

Environmental history demands that we grapple with new questions, a renowned German scholar argues in a Katz Distinguished Lecture on December 2.

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Louisa Mackenzie Publication Draws Attention from Times Literary Supplement

Louisa Mackenzie’s (French & Italian) recent essay on sea monsters contributes to a lively discussion on animal studies and identity in Early Modernism.

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Prominent Japanese Artist Denied Entry to US for UW Art Conference

Artist and curator Fram Kitagawa has been denied a visa to speak at the University of Washington, allegedly due to his involvement in student protests in the 1960s. His keynote will go on as planned,...

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

William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, visits UW Friday, December, 4, 3:30 pm at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.Event URL:...

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