UW Asia-Pacific Army War College Fellowship Program 2024-2025THE JACKSON REPORT 2023-24
Message from the Director
Daniel Hoffman
Every year the Jackson Report offers our School the opportunity to reflect. We take this occasion to explore how our research, teaching and public programming uphold a long commitment to informed engagement with the world. Whether the subject is visual arts in Cambodia, the politics and economics of global food systems, or the world coming to Seattle for the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup soccer tournament, the Jackson School community has important insights to share. This is no less true today than at any point in our history.
The intellectual work reflected in this year’s report adds to a lineage that spans two World Wars and a global Cold War; the domestic political contestation over McCarthyism and Civil Rights; decolonization and independence for much of the Earth’s population; multiple global pandemics; accelerating technological revolutions; the invention and passing of too many art and literary movements to count. Our scholars and scholars-in-the-making have never been of one mind or spoken with one voice on any of these subjects – with one important exception.
We have always been committed to the principle that knowledge matters and that scholars should be free in its pursuit. As you read about the accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students over this past year, I hope you will join me in celebrating both our specific achievements and our dedication to making an impact through freedom of thought in higher education. That has been, and will remain, the most important contribution of this historic institution.
Daniel Hoffman
Director and Stanley D. Golub Endowed Chair in International Studies
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
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Student Experience
UW Asia-Pacific Army War College Fellowship Program 2024-2025
Discovering the world with Boren Scholar Alice Bruil
Kunle Akinlosotu receives Jackson School Leadership Award 2024
Around the world with Task Force
Three Jackson School students head abroad in 2024-25 with Fulbright awards
Kati Sosa-Valle named Samuel E. Kelly Scholar
Three students receive Jackson School Hellmann Scholar Award 2023-24
Research, write, present: A Task Force winter capstone on pressing global issues
Comparative Religion grad student receives Tolo Foundation award
Undergrad receives Tolo Foundation award for study of JapanTHE JACKSON REPORT 2023-24
Some Faculty Highlights
Reşat Kasaba receives award for contributions to Turkish scholarship
Jackson faculty to create study abroad on world food system
Sasha Senderovich receives prestigious AATSEEL 2023 Best First Book Award
Liora Halperin selected as inaugural fellow at the National Library of IsraelMeet Debamanyu Das
Read our interview with Debamanyu Das, an economist, on joining the Jackson School as a distinguished expert in Political Economy.
Off the Bookshelf
New faculty books 2023-2024
Rethinking U.S. World Power -Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
Co-Editor: Daniel Bessner
(Springer, 2024)
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Author: Yong-Chool Ha
(University of Washington Press, 2024)
What Side Are You On? -A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
Co-Author: Tony Lucero
(The University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America’s Most Controversial Decision
Author: Kenneth Pyle
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
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Alumni Highlights
Cool jobs that our alumni have landed
Alum Tasha Kimball speaks to Jackson School students on life after graduation
Q&A with Greg Guedel Ph.D. International Studies ’16Donor Spotlight: Consuelo Corbett
Consuelo Corbett, who passed away in June 2024, established alongside her husband Gary Corbett, The Corbett British Columbia-Washington International Exchange Program for exceptional students from University of Washington, University of Victoria and University of British Columbia to build cross-border relations in our region.
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Spotlight: Our National Resource Centers
Connecting the world via Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
Navigating global careers with Jackson alumni
Exploring Cambodia’s past and present through visual arts
CCMTI 2024 discusses the promises and perils of new technologies
Partnering across borders for the global good for Indigenous leadership and rightsTHE JACKSON REPORT 2023-24
Staff Awards
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Our Jackson Offer
Jackson School centers, programs and units
- African Studies Program
- Arctic and International Relations
- Canadian Studies Center*
- Center for Global Studies*
- Center for Human Rights
- Center for Korea Studies
- Center for West European Studies
- China Studies Program
- Comparative Religion
- East Asia Center*
- East Asia Resource Center
- Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
- European Union Center
- Hellenic Studies Program
- International Policy Institute
- Japan Studies Program
- Latin America and Caribbean Studies
- Middle East Center
- South Asia Center*
- Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas*
- Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
- – Israel Studies Program
- – Sephardic Studies Program
- Taiwan Studies Program
*U.S. Department of Education-funded National Resource Centers
Jackson School degree programs
- Asian Studies (B.A.)
- China Studies (M.A.)
- Comparative Religion (B.A.)
- Comparative Religion (M.A.)
- European Studies (B.A.)
- Executive Master of International Studies (M.A.)
- Global and Regional Studies (B.A.)
- International Studies (General) (B.A.)
- International Studies (General) (M.A.)
- International Studies (General) (Ph.D.)
- Japan Studies (M.A.)
- Jewish Studies (B.A.)
- Korea Studies (M.A.)
- Latin America and Caribbean Studies (B.A.)
- Middle East Studies (M.A.)
- Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (M.A.)
- South Asian Studies (M.A.)
- Southeast Asian Studies (M.A.)