Associate Professor and Chair of the South Asia Center Sunila S. Kale is the special issue editor of the November issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies on comparative land politics in China and India. Kale has also written on the topic in this recent piece also published in the Journal on November 6, 2020. The twelve

Drs. Hajin Jun, Mika Ahuvia, and Richard Watts have received the Society of Scholars Fellowship for next year, granted by UW’s Simpson Center for the Humanities. Only eight awards are given each year. Awards are based on the scholarly merit of the individual applications, and scholarship likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry joined Tom Z. Collina, Policy Director at Ploughshares Fund, to discuss the terrifying history of nuclear launch authority and the new nuclear arms race that has begun. Leela Fernandes, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, moderated. Watch the video here! Recorded on December 8, 2020. About the speakers: William J. Perry

Priority deadline: February 1, 2021. Apply here! Applications for the University of Wisconsin’s Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) are now open! CESSI is an intensive, eight-week language program held each summer in Madison, Wisconsin.  Students receive the equivalent of one year of language study during this time and earn eight credits upon completion of

Affiliate faculty Maya Angela Eipe Smith’s book, Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, is a winner of The Modern Language Association’s  Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. Her volume explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Drawing on extensive interviews with people of Senegalese heritage, Maya Angela Smith contends

A new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems, co-edited by JSIS professor Robert Pekkanen, has just been published in paperback. No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before-and sometimes long after—they occur.

Recently, local media published two articles on China featuring members of the JSIS community. In her opinion piece for The Seattle Times, JSIS China Studies alumna Amy Sommers examines what President-elect Joe Biden could do to strengthen U.S. foreign policy toward China. She also highlights the value of the Jackson School’s China Program, stating that she “benefited from the

Taso Lagos, JSIS lecturer in Hellenic Studies, has recently published his new book, Charisma and Religious War in America: Ministries and Rivalries of Sister Aimee and “Fighting Bob” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). The book explores spiritual innovation in 1920’s Los Angeles through the biographies of two key Protestant figures –and rivals– in the movement:  Sister Aimee

The Northwest Detention Center places more incarcerated people in solitary confinement than any other facility in the nation, says a new report from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights. The Center’s director, Dr. Angelina Godoy, says that ICE records don’t match up with those of the prison operator, GEO Group, raising numerous red

In honor of the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd, the UW Office of Global Affairs invites you to join them for a virtual seminar, Students with Disabilities: School Violence & Bullying As A Barrier To Education For All, featuring the findings from a UNESCO-commissioned study. Hear perspectives from University of