2018-2019 Society of Scholars Fellow Vanessa Freije (Henry Jackson School of International Studies) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award for her project, “Technology, Violence, and the Struggle for Information Sovereignty in Mexico.” Freije’s research examines the history of Mexico, intra-American relations, and the politics of knowledge production. Please join us in congratulating Freije on this prestigious

Join us in congratulating María Elena García. Her book, Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru, was just awarded the Flora Tristán Prize for Best Book on Peru, a recognition given annually by the Peru section of the Latin American Studies Association. ¡¡Felicidades María Elena!!

It was a beautiful day in Tacoma, the winter sun glinting off the familiar downtown buildings rising above the port. In a nondescript corner of the industrial part of the city, the noise was deafening. Car horns blared, tin cans shook, metal spoons banged against pots and pans, dozens of voices yelled in some combination

  Angélica Amezcua, Spanish and Portuguese Studies  Theresa Rocha Beardall, Department of Sociology  Diana Flores Ruiz, Cinema & Media Studies Bianca Dang, Department of History  Carlos Martinez-Cano, College of Education  E. Roberto Orellana, School of Social Work  Jennifer Baez, School of Art + Art History + Design  Caitlin Earley, School of Art + Art History +

In this Q&A, we speak with Caitlin Quirk, a senior majoring in international studies who was recently selected as the 2022 recipient of the Donald C. and Margery S. Hellmann Scholarship award. Unique to the Jackson School, the award provides a stipend to support the education and training of a Jackson School undergraduate major with demonstrated excellence in

A conversation about art and political activism from Peru with visual artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado, and visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo Morales. Panelists discuss the role that art has played in moments of political instability and recent events in Peru, and they describe how a visual internationalism informs their political activism and creative work.

ICE arrests in Washington tell stories of suffering that goes unseen Sep. 28, 2021 at 2:50 pm Updated Sep. 28, 2021 at 3:59 pm A child traveling from El Salvador hoping to reach relatives living in the U.S. answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he was smuggled across the… (AP Photo / Dario

Recently José Antonio Lucero, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Comparative History of Ideas Associate Professor and Department of American Indian Studies Adjunct Associate Professor, shared his thoughts with us on the meaning of Hispanic Heritage Month: “Hispanic Heritage Month” does seem to need some re-thinking. While I understand and endorse

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia and Hostile Terrain 94 are on view at the Henry Art Gallery as part of Art at the Borders of the Political, a multi- faceted project sponsored by the University of Washington’s Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. The project centers the question of how