“…being able to converse in ‘Taglish,’ the commonly spoken combination of Tagalog and English, has allowed people I’ve spoken with to represent their experience accurately, without being white-washed.” Hannah Bassett,

“It seemed truly like the ending of a world. Seabirds were dying by the thousands in the muck. Vast stocks of salmon and herring and halibut would perish next.” This description in National

Many thought he was sick; some feared he was dead. But in October 1987, after 51 days spent planning in seclusion, Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev emerged in Murmansk and

Studying Arabic with the FLAS has also impacted my experience here by allowing me to build friendships and make connections with Arabic-speaking students on a deeper-level. Perry Keziah is a

“My UW experience provided me with the intellectual community and fieldwork opportunities to combine my unique perspectives as a mountaineer and development scholar to fight for a more thoughtful and

“Learning Hebrew has opened the door to Israel Studies, but also to languages like Ladino and Yiddish, which are often written in Hebrew letters. Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet has

“To the best of my ability, I completed my task whilst abroad. I met new people, I learned more Russian, and I feel that I have come to understand the

Alumna Hannah Haegeland (M.A. in South Asia Studies, 2015) writes in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on South Asia’s nuclear and radiological threat environment in “The terrifying geography of

“By the time Isatou graduated from high school, she had already achieved much more than anyone expected of her, but she was determined to keep moving forward.  Her personal and

“It seems that bi-cultural identities are just as common here as they are in the U.S.” Center for Global Studies FLAS Fellow Henry Milander, an undergraduate student in Business, International