September 8, 2021
In his article titled,”The Case Against Humane War,” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization analyzes how the turn toward “precision” combat has
September 7, 2021
Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, has penned an article titled, “Can We Live Without Twitter?” that analyzes if there is a
July 26, 2021
Into the abyss or taking flight – what’s the ‘new normal’ in our post-pandemic world? And are we really ‘post-pandemic’? This idea was the focus of conversation and debate for
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