In winter quarter 2022, the Jackson School launched the Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing, a national innovative curriculum developed at Wellesley College which has been adopted by more than a dozen higher education institutions and equips students to translate their academic knowledge to a broad audience. Students learn professional, colloquial writing through assigned readings which they

In “Surprises, guises, and gifts: International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise caps off a year in the MAAIS program,” the UW Daily spotlights the Jackson School’s annual capstone course, which this year was on the North Korean nuclear crisis, for students in the M.A. in Applied International Studies program.

Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich’s new book, “How the Soviet Jew Was Made,” published by Harvard University Press in May, delves into post-revolutionary Russian and Yiddish literary, cinematic, and journalistic sources and recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure, not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.

Four undergraduate students at the Jackson School have been named to the University of Washington’s Husky 100 list for their research and coursework, volunteer and leadership pursuits, and making a difference on campus and in their communities. Learn more about each of the Jackson School students selected to the 2022 Husky 100 list.

In a feature story titled, “Simulation offers UW students practical experience in crisis negotiation,” UW News interviews Jackson School Professor Robert Pekkanen about the annual International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise hosted by the Jackson School’s Master’s in Applied International Studies program and the U.S. Army War College.    

Danya Al-Saleh, a feminist geographer with expertise in Environmental Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California Los Angeles, will join the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington as Assistant Professor of International Studies It is the school’s first faculty position dedicated entirely to the field of environmental justice. The

Devin Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, in April 2022 was appointed as a Fellow in the Race, Religion, and American Judaism project sponsored by the Center for Jewish Ethics and the National Endowment for the Humanities, for his project, “Our Own Worst

Over winter quarter 117 international studies and global and regional studies seniors used their critical thinking and research skills to recommend how to address some of the most challenging global issues. It’s all part of the Jackson School’s Donald C. Hellmann Task Force Program, an annual, required student-led experiential learning capstone course guided by faculty engages

In his Feb. 15 article published by Utblick Magazine, “Security and state-making-arguments for a subaltern security approach in the case of Sudan and South Sudan,” Yasir Zaidan, a Jackson School doctoral student, asserts in order to discuss Sudan’s predicament, we need to understand the historical development of the modern state in Sudan. Utblick is a student magazine

Jackson School and History Professor Anand Yang was interviewed about his spring 2022 course “History by Bollywood: Colonial India through Film,” offered jointly by JSIS and the Department of History, in a College of Arts & Sciences article titled, “Lessons from Bollywood.”