Sasha Senderovich is interviewed about his new book “How the Soviet Jew Was Made” in an episode of The Yiddish Book Center’s podcast “The Schmooze.” The piece aired on Aug. 17, 2022. His book was also reviewed in an article by the Jewish Book Council that was published on Aug. 15, 2022.

Elise Rainer (Ph.D. International Studies 2016) is Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington and Associate Professor of International Relations at American Public University, after having worked over a decade in foreign affairs. She is a former diplomat with the U.S. State Department, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and USAID. Rainer is the

Jackson School Acting Assistant Professor Sarah Lohmann, penned a new article titled “Russian Gas, Green Technology, and the Great Sacrifice” in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. The article argues that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the long-term energy dependencies on Moscow that Europe’s fledgling green technology will not be able to fix

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