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

Separated at the U.S.-Canada border: For a father and son, 90 miles is a distance too far SEATTLE — In 2019, federal agents took Carlos Rivera away in handcuffs when he strayed across the U.S.-Canada border, even though he says they could see his 7-year-old son waiting for him with a friend on the Canadian side.

In “Northwest detention center in Tacoma slated to close under bill passed by Legislature” Angelina Godoy gives comments on documented systemic abuse as well as the impact of COVID-19 on the Northwest detention center.

Monica Rojas-Stewart, Ph.D.; Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Dance Submitted by Lisa Kwak on February 25, 2021 – 5:12pm To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight a different Black dance artist in the