Kathie Friedman

Contact
- friedman@uw.edu
- (206) 543-1709
- Thomson 216
About
Prof. Friedman is not accepting new MA or PhD students for the 2025-2026 academic year
Kathie Friedman is Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. Friedman is former Chair of the Jewish Studies Program, and has also directed the Masters of International Studies, and the Undergraduate Honors Thesis programs in the Jackson School. Her main area of study and research has been comparative forced migrations and immigration, particularly to the United States and the EU, with a focus on ethnic and political incorporation. Publications include Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women, New York 1870-1924; Creating and Transforming Households: the constraints of the world-economy (co-authored), “Performing Identities in the Classroom” (co-authored article); and “’On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents’: Re-imagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in America” (chapter). Some of her research has been funded by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW Royalty Research Fund, and the Mellon Foundation. Currently Friedman is working on two book projects tentatively titled: The Afterlife of Ethnic Cleansing: Memory, Identity, and Belonging in America’s Bosnian Refugee Diaspora; and “Learning to Participate: Pathways to Political Socialization and Civic Engagement of Second-Generation Refugee Youth.”
Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor – Sociology
Adjunct Associate Professor – Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate – Near and Middle East Studies PhD
Affiliate Positions
Comparative History of Ideas, Africa Studies Program
Education
- State University of New York at Binghamton, Ph.D., 1991
- State University of New York at Binghamton, M.A., 1979
- Michigan State University, B.A. Race, Ethinic, and Religious Inter-Group Relations Policy Problems at James Madison College; Social Work, 1976
Selected Courses
- JSIS 498 Im/Migrants and their Children: Social and Political Integration in Comparative Perspective
- JSIS B 324 Immigration
- JSIS B 437 Global Diasporas
- JSIS B 441 Forced Migrations
- JSIS B 541 Forced Migrations
- JSIS C 377 The American Jewish Community
- JSIS C 379 Doing Jewish Identity Studies
- JSIS C 438 Jewish Women in Contemporary America
Selected Publications
’On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents’ -Re-imagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in America
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas
Publication Date:
2007
Performing Identities in the Classroom -Teaching Jewish Women's Studies
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Karen Rosenberg
Published in:
Teaching Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 4
Publication Date:
2007
Ethnic Networks in Women’s Migration -A Comparative Study of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives
Publication Date:
2004
Memories of Migration -Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Publication Date:
1996
Creating and Transforming Households -The Constraints of the World-Economy
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Contributor(s):
Authors Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
1993