July 26, 2021
What’s the ‘new normal’ in our post-pandemic world – into the abyss or taking flight? And are we really ‘post-pandemic’? How has COVID-19 affected student life and return to school, or
June 13, 2021
In Spring 2021, three Jackson School students received highly competitive and prestigious awards to pursue their passion for the world through language learning and research at home and abroad: Sophia
April 28, 2021
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 2020 Population Health Social
February 22, 2021
Watch our conversations in Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region, a four-part lecture series on how today’s changing geopolitics is creating new configurations across regions and in
February 9, 2021
In”Don’t Trust the Process” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, reviews Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land (Crown, Nov. 2020), which Jacobin published on Feb. 8.
February 2, 2021
In an article titled “First-Person Shooter Ideology | The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty” Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization Daniel Bessner, an associate professor, examines what the new version of Call of
January 12, 2021
In “Biden’s China Problem: Resisting a New Cold War in Asia” Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor, Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the Jackson School, shares his ideas on
December 4, 2020
Join us in conversation with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging. Each lecture will be
October 19, 2020
Daniel Bessner, who holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, is the featured commentator in a CNN story about whether the U.S. should impose age limits on elected
October 2, 2020
Are borders a political language? An ideology? A way of thinking? A way of being in this world? What are the implications of borders on globalization, identity, democracy, migration, global