In a profile piece by the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington, Francis Abugbilla, a doctoral candidate at the UW Jackson School of International Studies and 2018 recipient of the Center for Global Studies Marcy Migdal Fellowship, shares his journey as a first-generation student from an agricultural community in Ghana to using his childhood farm

On June 10, the Jackson School celebrated the class of 2021 in an hour-long Spring Convocation ceremony that featured the Jackson School director, alumni, faculty and student speakers, among other highlights of student achievements during the year. It was held in a pre-recorded, virtual premiere format for the second year in a row due to

Inspired by his time at the University of British Columbia, UW Corbett Exchange alum, Owen Oliver, created an indigenous walking tour of campus. Stops include the Burke Museum, Indigenous artworks, the Medicinal Herb Garden, the Ethnic Cultural Center, the Husky Union Building (HUB), and Union Bay Natural Area. Read more and explore the tour!   

UW’s College of Arts & Sciences Perspectives newsletter recently featured Marcy Migdal Fellow, Ishira Parikh, in “Inclusive Biology Lessons with a Global Reach.” Ishira is a major in both biology and disability studies and was a 2020 recipient of the Center for Global Studies’ Marcy MigdalFellowship for Educational Equality. The award supports exceptional students engaged in activities aimed

The Global Business Forum (GBF) is an engaging MBA class and discussion forum where professionals from around the world share their insights into the complexities of doing business globally. The GBF is designed to connect students directly with global business leaders, and this is accomplished in part by inviting such leaders for panel discussions around

If you missed the Center for Global Study’s week-long lunch and learn event with the Northwest International Education Association, you are in luck — all the sessions were recorded. This year’s lunch & learn explored ways that faculty and staff could internationalize their campuses.

The Jackson School of International Studies Director and Jackson School Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee has issued a statement in response to Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict on April 20, 2021, noting, in part: “Through teaching, research, administration, scholarship, and service, the Jackson School strives to better understand how historically produced and intersecting inequalities are perpetuated.”

The 2021 Global Studies Virtual Symposium was held on April 23, 2021. Each year, the Symposium connects global studies scholars across campuses and offers an engaging teaching and learning forum for sharing best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. This virtual one-day conference included presentations that focused on global perspectives, sustainable development, strategic leadership, and

Missed the talk? The video recording of the first session of the JSIS Spring lecture series, “Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region,” is now available online. This lecture, “The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Making Sino-African Worlds,” features Mingwei Huang, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Faculty Fellow, Dartmouth Consortium of

In an article titled “An International Approach,” Director of the Jackson School Leela Fernandes is quoted on the meaning of transnational feminism and explains how using “the ethnography method—extensive on-the-ground field research—informs her approach to both feminism and international studies with the perspective that a deep understanding of particular places and context are needed.” The