Each year, the Center for Global Studies helps coordinate the selection of UW student award recipients of the Marcy Migdal Fund for Educational Equality. In most years, two Migdal Fund Fellows are selected to receive awards of approximately $1,500 each. Students are selected based on proposed projects meant to advance educational equality locally or throughout

Last month, Jamaican Senator Floyd Morris closed his public lecture at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus with an optimistic yet analytical statement. “I am looking forward to a future that is more inclusive of persons with disabilities in society.” Morris, who is a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with

“How the Soviet Jew Was Made” (Harvard University Press, 2022), a book by Sasha Senderovich, an assistant professor at the Jackson School and Slavic Languages and Literature, is reviewed in an article titled, “Beyond the Pale,” by Gary Shteyngart in the New York Review of Books. The piece appeared on Jan. 18, 2023 online and

Sasha Senderovich, an assistant professor at the Jackson School and Slavic Languages and Literature, was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award 2022 in the category Modern Jewish Thought and Experience for his book  “How the Soviet Jew Was Made” (Harvard University Press, 2022). The award is hosted by the New York-based Jewish

What did five Jackson School undergraduates along with 15 other University of Washington students do in Geneva, Switzerland, for three weeks in September 2022? They used their research skills and disability studies backgrounds to assist the Secretariat for the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and support Committee members as they developed “Lists

Daniel Hoffman, a professor and interim director of the Jackson School, is interviewed in a Dec. 7, 2022 article by the UW Daily  titled, “UW professors create documentary about the 2018 Maple Fire” about the making of the film “The Maple Cutter.” Read more here.

Arzoo Osanloo, professor and director of the Middle East Center, gives context to recent reports of the disbanding of the morality police in Iran in a segment titled, “Iran’s attorney general says morality police is disbanded, others say no.”  

A new book titled, “What Ukraine Taught NATO about Hybrid Warfare” (Strategic Studies Institute/US Army War College Press, November 2022), edited by Sarah Lohmann, a Jackson School faculty member and U.S. Army War College Visiting Professor, who is also the lead author, identifies potential solutions to mitigate cyberattacks and increase energy independence for militaries of NATO

Arzoo Osanloo, director of the Middle East Center and an associate professor of the Law, Societies & Justice program, is the featured guest in an NPR Throughline podcast episode titled, “The Woman Question,” on how while what’s happening in Iran right now is unprecedented, the Iranian people’s struggle for gender equality began generations before the death of 22-year-old

In a New York Times article titled, “Why People Are Flocking to a Symbol of Taiwan’s Authoritarian Past,” about the Jing-Mei human rights museum in Taiwan, Jackson School faculty James Lin, a historian of modern Taiwan, is quoted. The article was published on Oct. 25, 2022.