Annah Mwendar-Chaba spent a year learning Hindi for her job in the Foreign Service. Two years later, she learned Arabic.  Language proficiency is just one of the challenges of working as a foreign service officer for the US Department of State. Thanks to support from the Jackson School and the UW Office of Minority Affairs

Professor Emeritus Daniel Chirot’s article titled, “Higher Education and the Crisis of Democracy” argues that “Without a return to basic principles and traditional liberal curricula in higher education, America’s days as an open, tolerant, well-functioning democracy could be numbered.” The article was published on Jan. 28, 2022 by Project Syndicate, an online global news platform

Jackson School Professor Christian Lee Novetzke has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment Humanities (NEH) for his new book project titled, “A Flower of Fire: Religion, Caste, and Gender in the Political Poetry of Savitribai Phule (1831–1897).” Read more here.  

A recently-published article, “How Conspiracies in Russia Work,” featured Scott Radnitz, Herbert J. Ellison Associate Professor of of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Chair of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. The article was published on Dec. 14, 2921, by .coda, an online news platform on major currents shaping the world, from

A recent news story by the UW’s College of Arts and Sciences featured the Jackson School’s undergraduate offerings in cybersecurity policy. As JSIS professor, Sara Curren, observes in the article, “The Jackson School lends itself to a topic like this. It ties everybody together around the globe but demands local insights from different perspectives. That kind of

Nadine Fabbi, managing director of the Canadian Studies Center, has co-authored a chapter in “The Inuit World” published by Routledge Press in November. The chapter, titled, “Inuit Nunangat: The Development of a Common Inuit Territorial and Policy Space in Canada,” was co-written with Gary Wilson, University of Northern British Columbia. Read more here.

A new edition of the “Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia,” edited by Leela Fernandes, director of the Jackson School, was published on Nov. 16, 2021. The Handbook covers the central contributions that have defined  this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide

“Quick to wonder, slow to judge, and keen to discover.”  JSIS professor David Fenner is passionate about international education and lifelong learning. An expert in Islam and Middle East conflicts, David reflects often on the wisdom he learned while living with a nomadic Bedouin tribe in Oman for a year and a half: “‘We Bedouin try

Vice Provost of Global Affairs, Jeff Riedinger, recently interviewed JSIS Director Leela Fernandes on the vision and future of the Jackson School, and how the Jackson School has risen to meet the challenges of this current time. As Leela articulates, “We live in a time where globalization means that students in every field of study need to

Radhika Govindrajan, director of the South Asia Center and associate professor at the Jackson School and Department of Anthropology, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Diana Forsythe Prize for her book, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by the American Anthropological Association. The Forsythe prize is given to the