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Jon Herron
Biology
Jon Herron
Biology
Profile herronjc@uw.eduI teach at the University of Washington, in the Biology Department and the Honors Program.
I am co-author of a textbook on evolutionary biology.
I collaborate with SimBio.com on educational software.
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Karen Litfin
Political Science
Karen Litfin
Political Science
Profile litfin@uw.eduKaren Litfin, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1992. Karen’s first two books were Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1994) and The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (MIT Press, 1998). She has also written on the politics of earth remote sensing; the political implications of Gaia Theory; the relationship between climate science and politics; the ecological politics of sacrifice; the global ecovillage movement; and contemplative pedagogical practices. For links to some of these publications, please click on “Research” tab.
Karen’s latest book, Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community, traces her yearlong journey to ecovillages around the world in language that is at once intellectually and emotionally engaging. The book explores these micro-laboratories of deep sustainability through four broad windows—ecology, economics, community, and consciousness—or E2C2, and gleans their lessons for a viable human future at every scale, from the neighborhoods to cities to countries to global governance. Click here for her video.
In her teaching, Karen takes an innovative “person/planet politics” approach rooted in two questions: What does it mean to come of age at the dawn of the Anthropocene, as we learn that prevailing institutions, practices and values are unraveling the tapestry of life? And how does one serve as a mentor under these conditions? Karen is currently working on a book based upon her twenty years of experience with contemplative pedagogical practices in environmental and global education.
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Galya Diment
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Galya Diment
Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Jose Alaniz
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jose Alaniz
Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Juliana Villegas
Honors Program; English
Juliana Villegas
Honors Program; English
Profile villegas@uw.eduI recently retired from the UW, but I have been keeping busy consulting, writing, and traveling. I continue to be part of the UW community through study abroad and committee work. As affiliate emiritus faculty in the English Department, my areas of interest and research include Border Studies, Critical Mixed 'Race' Studies, Latinx Literature and American Ethnic Cultural Studies.
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Joel Walker
History
Joel Walker
History
Profile jwalker@uw.eduMy research and teaching focus on the Ancient World and Late Antiquity, spanning a a geographic area from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. My courses include an entry-level survey of the Ancient World, offered each autumn, which provides a broad introduction to the cultures of Paleolithic Europe, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, and Early Christianity. Other courses in my rotation examine the history of Ancient Iran, the Mongol Empire, and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia). I also teach a seminar on animal-human relations in world history ("the cow course").
My research focuses on the history of the Christian communities of the premodern Middle East. My first book, The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq (University of CA Press, 2006), sought to elucidate the Christian culture of the Sasanian Empire (224-642) and its dialogue with the social, political, and intellectual traditions of Iran, Syria, and the Greco-Roman world. Subsequent articles have examined Syriac Christan hagiography, book culture, shrine topography, and the general history of the Church of the East from its formation to the Mongol era.
My current research centers on a book project entitled: Witness to the Mongols: A Global History Source Book (under contract with the University of California Press), co-authored with the Middle Eastern historian Stefan Kamola. I'm also writing about the history of pearls in the arts, imagination, and economy of the Ancient and Late Antique World. Several pieces from this second project are now in print or in press. A third project, Bull of Heaven and Earth: A History of Cattle in the Ancient World, examines animal-human relations from Paleolithic Europe to the prohibition of animal sacrifice in the Later Roman Empire.
My graduate teaching has been eclectic, spanning the fields of Roman history, early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Islamic studies. Former students include graduates of the Comparative Religion Program, the Department of Classics, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, the Jackson School’s Middle East Center, and the Graduate School’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Brook Kelly
Honors Program; Advisor
Brook Kelly
Honors Program; Advisor
Profile bbkelly@uw.eduHere in Honors I… work on advising our students, admissions, the Bonderman Fellowship and much more. I’ve worked for the Honors Program for over a decade, so have done just about everything there is to do here and am always happy to help!
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Naomi Sokoloff
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Naomi Sokoloff
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Profile naosok@uw.eduNaomi Sokoloff is a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of Washington. Her primary field is Modern Jewish Literature, with special emphasis on Hebrew. She also teaches courses on World Literature and the Nobel Prize, Autobiography, poetry and prayer, and literary responses to the Holocaust. For Honors she teaches an interdisciplinary writing seminar called "Seattle: Reading and Writing the City." Her most recent book is What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans), co-edited with Nancy E. Berg and published by UW Press in 2018. Professor Sokoloff completed her PhD at Princeton University.
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Danuta Kasprzyk
Family & Child Nursing
Danuta Kasprzyk
Family & Child Nursing
Profile kasprzyk@uw.eduDanuta Kasprzyk is a Research Professor at the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing. She spent the first six years of her career on the faculty at the University of Washington, in the Department of Community Health Care Systems, in the School of Nursing. She then moved to Battelle and was a research scientist for over 20 years in the Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation. Her research interests include psychology, public health, preventive and behavioral medicine, health psychology, evaluation of health education, and prevention programs. The primary driver in her research has been to determine what motivates behavior, so programs can be built to encourage healthy behaviors, whether via primary or secondary prevention. She co-developed the Integrated Behavioral Model and has used it extensively to predict and change behavior. Kasprzyk has had research experience in many communities in the US as well as in Africa. She has also been Principal Investigator on two community-based intervention trials (one focused on HIV prevention, and one on building resilience among families living with HIV) and a co-investigator on two male circumcision studies in Zimbabwe, one determining the factors affecting uptake, and one (currently being conducted) determining whether risk compensation occurs among men who get circumcised.
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Victoria Lawson
Geography; Honors Program
Victoria Lawson
Geography; Honors Program
Profile lawson@uw.eduI am a former Director of the Honors Program and I also teach in Honors. My classes focus on poverty, inequality and feminist care ethics. I am a Professor of Geography and I have worked across South and North America on informal economies, women’s work and poverty.
I spent lots of time thinking about… all the great work that Honors students, staff and faculty are doing together. I am also co-director of the Relational Poverty Network, which is a global research network that aims to expand thinking about the causes of poverty in both rich and poor countries. We have over 300 members from every continent and you can see their projects by searching Relational Poverty Network.
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Katarzyna Dziwirek
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Katarzyna Dziwirek
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Profile dziwirek@uw.eduProfessor Dziwirek 's areas of study include syntax, morphology, typology, corpus linguistics, cross-cultural semantics and pragmatics, and bilingualism.
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Amy Piedalue
Geography
Amy Piedalue
Geography
Profile amer@uw.eduAmy (she/her) is a researcher, feminist scholar, and Affiliate Professor of Geography, who works in the tech industry in the field of responsible AI. As public debates about the rapid development of AI tools populate news headlines and occupy government attention, Amy wants to understand how AI literacy is evolving globally and how we can effectively govern AI with clarity about tradeoffs between the benefits and risks enabled by AI powered tech. She’s also an avid fan of sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction, and cannot help but dissect characters and plots to theorize how they reflect contemporary social issues, injustices, and anxieties. A longtime member of the UW Honors community, Amy was a student in the program as an undergraduate, and then an advisor and instructor while doing her PhD in UW Geography. Her academic work is rooted in anti-racist feminist theory and activism and informed by a wide-ranging engagement with critical theory aimed at unpacking multi-valient inequities and hierarchies of power, including historical and contemporary manifestations of colonial logics of domination.
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Neal Koblitz
Mathematics
Neal Koblitz
Mathematics
Profile koblitz@uw.eduNeal Koblitz received his PhD in Mathematics at Princeton in 1974, and has been at UW since 1979. His research is in number theory and cryptography, and he is the coinventor of elliptic curve cryptography. In recent years he has coauthored a series of papers critiquing the way mathematical "proofs" are used in cybersecurity. He is secretary of a small foundation called the Kovalevskaia Fund that supports women in STEM fields in the Global South.
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Aley Mills Willis
Honors Program; Advisor
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Roger Soder
Education
Roger Soder
Education
Profile rsoder@uw.eduA word on the photo... Taken at Kruger National Park, South Africa, April 2019. I was with a guide. We were driving around; he suggested we leave the jeep to get an unusual view of three cheetahs. Sleeping, he said, so no problem. We walked a couple of hundred yards, and there they were. I’ll take your picture with them, he said. The resulting photo you can read for yourself. I was not thrilled. Not bothered enough to bail out, not thrilled about staying. But I did stay, figured the guide knew what was what, and it worked out okay.
We often experience the tension of bail or stay situations. Rather like the first couple of sessions of a class. Or the first few days on a job. Or choice of occupation. Sometimes bailing makes good sense. The class is a mistake, you thought it was political philosophy, turns out to be multivariate analysis, and you don’t have the math to make it work even if you tried hard. Maybe the job forces on you unwanted ethical dilemmas. The choice of occupation turns out not to be an authentic choice, but merely a grudging and superficial meeting of the demands and expectations of others.
But sometimes bailing is the wrong move. We sometimes leave too soon. The challenges and complications prompting a bailout might well turn out to be exhilirating, leading to serious growth and delightful and unexpected experiences.
How to know what to do? There are no rules for the proper application of rules. All we can do is know where to find ourself, know how to keep a balance between prudent skepticism and a welcoming of the unknown. In a word, wisdom.
That’s what guides my choice of ideas to consider in a class, the choice of texts, and how we are going to conduct ourselves throughout the quarter and beyond. And here, I am happy to say, I find my colleagues feeling the same.
It’s not good to advance claims but preclude responses. So if you want to respond, that’s easy. I can be reached through dear old email: rsoder@uw.edu.
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Michelle Habell-Pallán
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Michelle Habell-Pallán
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Profile mhabellp@uw.eduMichelle Habell-Pallán was promoted to full Professor in the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Department in Fall 2018. She is an adjunct Professor in Communication and the School of Music. Her new book, Chicanxfuturism: Punk’s Beat Migration “No Future” to the “Eternal Getdown” is in-progress. Her first book Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU Press) received an MLA book prize honorable mention. Her edited collection Latino/a Popular Culture (NYU Press) is widely assigned. In her role as guest curator of the award-winning bilingual traveling exhibit American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music, a collaboration between the University of Washington, The Experience Music Project Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), she is engaged in developing public humanities projects. Her digital-born research includes the UW Libraries Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Oral History Archive, a collaborative endeavor that brings together scholars, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. She is also a past recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Award as well as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Research Award for her research and writing on gender, popular music and culture. For more on her collaborative archivista praxis see NANO: New American Notes Online. Issue 5. Special Theme: Digital Humanities, Public Humanities @ "Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities: Participatory Research, Community Engagement, and Archival Practice." She is co-editor "The 1970s", a special issue published by Women Studies Quarterly (WSQ) and contributor the "1970s" companion EquityArchive.com.She also participates in the Seattle Fandango Project, a collective endeavor that builds community via music skill sharing. http://equalityarchive.com/
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Kirsten Foot
Communication
Kirsten Foot
Communication
Profile kfoot@uw.eduDr. Foot is a professor of communication who studies and teaches on multisector collaboration and social change.
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Edward (Ted) Mack
Asian Languages and Literature
Edward (Ted) Mack
Asian Languages and Literature
Profile tmack@uw.eduMy research interests: Modern Japanese-language prose; art and capitalism; the flow of literary works throughout the larger Japanese linguistic community; the function of power in the literary field; and theories of diaspora and heterogeneity, particularly as they challenge culturalist concepts of national identity.
My first book, Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value (Duke University Press, 2010), examines the relationship between the concept of a national literature and the publishing industry. It looks at the Great KantÅ Earthquake of 1923, KaizÅ-sha’s Gendai Nihon bungaku zenshÅ«, the establishment of the Akutagawa Prize for literature, and contemporary debates about literary value.
My second book, Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (University of California Press, 2022) explores the literary activities of Japanese migrants to Brazil prior to the Second World War and complicates the received paradigm of national literatures. It is available in paperback and as a free PDF to download from the UC Press site.
In addition, I have been working on Asian American cultural history, with a focus on Japanese-language discourse and literary production. I edited the 28-volume Shiatoru-ban Nihongo tokuhon (reproduction of the textbook series produced in Seattle from 1920-38), and the 16-volume Kashū-ban Nihongo tokuhon (reproduction of the textbook series produced in California from 1924-39). Both were published by Bunsei Shoin (Tokyo), the first in 2012 and the second in 2014.
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Timea Tihanyi
Art
Timea Tihanyi
Art
Profile timea@uw.eduimea Tihanyi is a Hungarian born interdisciplinary visual artist and ceramist living and working in Seattle, Washington. Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington.
Tihanyi’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Brazil, Australia, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands, including Shepparton Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, Mint Museum of Art and Design, Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburg, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Foundry Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science, SculptureSpace NYC and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. She has received many recognitions, including the 2018 Neddy Award in Open Media, a 2018-19 Bergstrom Award, and a New Foundation travel grant. In Seattle, her work has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions at Gallery 4Culture, CoCA, Consolidated works, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gallery, Davidson Contemporary, and SOIL Gallery. Her work is represented by the Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle.
Tihanyi is a Teaching Professor in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program at the University of Washington. She is the founder and director of Slip Rabbit, a unique mentoring space for experimentation and learning at the intersections of art, design, architecture, science and engineering. Slip Rabbit is the first technoceramics studio in the Pacific Northwest.
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Louisa Iarocci
Architecture
Louisa Iarocci
Architecture
Profile liarocci@uw.eduLouisa Iarocci, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where she teaches in the areas of architectural history, theory and design. She is a licensed architect who has worked in architectural firms in Toronto, New York, St. Louis and Boston after receiving her professional architectural degree at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada. She completed a Masters in Arts and Science (1994) and a Masters in Liberal Arts (1992) at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from Boston University (2003). She served as editor and contributor to Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling, published by Ashgate in 2013. Her monograph, The Urban Department Store in America was published by Ashgate in 2014.
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Stephen Hinds
Classics
Stephen Hinds
Classics
Profile shinds@uw.eduSTEPHEN HINDS is a Professor in the UW Department of Classics. He is the author of The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987) and Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998); many of his articles focus on the Latin poet Ovid (a pre-publication version of his latest, 'Ovid’s exile poetry and zombies', is on his page on academia.edu). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded the now-completed Cambridge book series ‘Roman Literature and its Contexts’ (14 volumes between 1993 and 2016). More recently he has extended his literary research to the Renaissance: his current book project, with the working title Poetry across Languages: Studies in Transliteral and Transcultural Latin, in antiquity and since, explores cross-linguistic and intercultural relations of Latin literature both in antiquity and between antiquity and (early) modernity. He grew up in Dublin, Ireland. His B.A. is from Trinity College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University; he has lived in the U.S. since 1986, first in Ann Arbor and since 1992 in Seattle. He has been a U.S. citizen since 2009. His spouse Catherine Connors is also a UW Professor of Classics who often teaches for Honors; they are the parents of two Roosevelt High School students, one current and one graduated.
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Clarence Spigner
Health Services
Clarence Spigner
Health Services
Profile cspigner@uw.eduRaised in poverty and segregation in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Clarence Spigner, DrPH, served in the U.S. Air Force (1964-68) which included a tour in Vietnam (1966-67). Worked as a telephone lineman (1968-74) in Los Angeles County while attending community colleges in Santa Monica (1974-76) and Oakland (1977) on the GI Bill. Worked series of odd-jobs (dispatcher, janitor, physical fitness instructor, kitchen-worker and tutor) while completing his BA in sociology at UC Berkeley (1977-1979) and MPH (1980-1982). Did pre-doctoral work as health planner for the National Health Service in London, England (1982-83). Earned doctorate (DrPH) in 1987 from U.C. Berkeley. Assistant Professor at University of Oregon in 1988 where he developed research/teaching interests in race/ethnic relations and health. Earned tenure as Associate Professor in 1994. Recruited to University of Washington’s School of Public Health (1994). Studied tobacco-related behavior and opinions about organ donation and transplantation. Teaches Program Planning & Evaluation, Qualitative Research Methods, and Values and Ethics in Research. Developed new courses in Honor’s College based on prize-winning books (I am Charlotte Simmons and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks). Directs his own study abroad program since 2007 called Dark Empire addressing multiculturalism and health in Britain.
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Claudia Jensen
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Claudia Jensen
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Profile cjensen@uw.eduClaudia Jensen is an affiliate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her work focuses on 17th-century Russian music and theater, and has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Musicological Society, and the International Research and Exchanges Board. Her prison work centers around educational access and opportunity. She is a sponsor at the Twin Rivers Unit (Monroe) of the group Bridges to HOPE and is a member of the REACH (Reentry Empowerment and Community Health) program, a prisoner-initiated reentry project; at the UW, she is the faculty adviser for HOPE (Huskies for Opportunities in Prison Education), an RSO focusing on supporting and promoting educational opportunities for justice-involved individuals. Claudia received her BA from the University of Washington and her MFA and PhD from Princeton University.
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Robert Pavia
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Robert Pavia
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Profile bobpavia@uw.eduRobert Pavia teaches environmental management and disaster science to both undergraduate and graduate students in the University Honors Program, College of the Environmental, and the Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Pavia’s teaching focuses on the role of science in management and its use in preventing and mitigating adverse environmental effects of human activities, including climate change. He has served as the faculty advisor to graduate keystone projects including: Transporting Alberta Oil Sands Products: Defining the Issues and Assessing the Risks.; The Role of Local Government in Oil Spill Preparedness and Response; and Identifying and Assessing Emerging Risks in Marine Transportation.
Dr. Pavia’s research interests include emerging risks in marine transportation due to climate change, the risks of marine oil spills, and strategies for communicating science during technological disasters.
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Ileana Marin
Comparative History of Ideas; Comparative Literature
Ileana Marin
Comparative History of Ideas; Comparative Literature
Profile marini@uw.eduIleana Marin is an affiliated lecturer with University of Washington’s Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies Program (REECAS) in the Jackson School of International Studies. She is also an Associate Professor and Chair of the Doctoral School “Space, Image, Text, and Territory at the University of Bucharest. Ileana Marin teaches interdisciplinary courses both at the University of Washington and at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies of the University of Bucharest. Marin holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bucharest and another one in Textual Studies from the University of Washington. Her books include Beata Beatrix (2001), Narrative Dimensions of Pre-Raphaelite Painting (2003), and Victorian Aesthetics of Erasure in Fiction and Illustration (2015). Together with artists Mira Sanders and Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin authored Micronarratives and the City. An Annotated Map of Bucharest, an artist’s book published by Brussels’ Graphische Cell in 2023. She has also published chapters in several collective volumes: “Expanding Auditory Images: E-Literature and Its New Melos” in From Ear to Ear (Poznan, 2023); “Texts as You Don’t Know Them: Digital Literature” in Exploring the Digital Turn (IaÈ™i, 2018), “Rossetti’s Aesthetically Saturated Readings: Art’s Dehumanizing Power” in Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor (Palgrave 2008), among many others. Her articles on the artistic legacy of communism, the materiality of literary, pictorial, and graphic texts, as well as on the multimediality of digital works have appeared in prestigious publications. Recently, she has focused on artists’ books as precursors of E-Literature and digital arts. She is currently working on an article about homelessness in the digital era.
Her long-standing academic career on both sides of the ocean has given her the opportunity to establish contacts between international scholars, artists, writers, and institutions. This academic experience helped her create successful Exploration Seminars in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine, in tandem with other scholars interested in Eastern Europe. Marin is co-founder, and currently the vice president of the Seattle non-profit American Romanian Cultural Society. For her contribution to bridging Romanian and American cultural spaces, in 2019, Mr. Klaus Johannis, President of Romania, awarded her the Order of Merit in Education at the Rank of Cavalier. She is also a Fulbright Alumna and serves on the UW Fulbright Committee. In 2022, she was nominated for the Honors Excellence for Teaching Award by her students in the "How to Read E-Literature" class.
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Deborah Pierce
Education Librarian
Deborah Pierce
Education Librarian
Profile dpierce@uw.eduDeborah L. Pierce is a harpsichordist, vocalist, music information specialist, music educator, and certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner. She has spent the last half-century teaching and exploring music and its various relationships to humanity including working for 26 years as a music librarian. Her research interests and publications span the gamut of human thought and action, but most often are focused on Baroque performance practice, life-long learning, human potentials, social artistry, musician wellness, the influence of music on our health and spirit, and most recently how music can help us connect and create healthy “we” spaces. She has taught music in K-12 classrooms, private studio, and higher education and currently serves as the Education Librarian in the University of Washington Libraries.
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John Vallier
Ethnomusicology; Libraries
John Vallier
Ethnomusicology; Libraries
Profile vallier@uw.eduJohn Vallier is archivist at the UW Ethnomusicology Archives, as well as faculty in UW's Ethnomusicology and Honors programs. John teaches on a range of topics: from remix studies and ethnomusicology archives, to music of Seattle and sound of cinema. Before coming to UW, John was archivist at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, a composer for Activision, and a drummer for various bands. More information available here.
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Maria Elena Garcia
Comparative History of Ideas; Anthropology; American Indian Studies; Geography; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Maria Elena Garcia
Comparative History of Ideas; Anthropology; American Indian Studies; Geography; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Profile meg71@uw.eduMaría Elena García is a Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also serving as interim chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at UW (2022-2023). A Peruvian woman of Quechua ancestry, García received her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University and has been a Mellon Fellow at Wesleyan University and Tufts University. Her first book, Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru (Stanford, 2005) examined Indigenous and intercultural politics in Peru in the immediate aftermath of the war between Sendero Luminoso and the state. A revised version of that book was published in Peru by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in 2008 as Los Desafíos de la Interculturalidad: educación, desarrollo, e identidades indígenas en el Perú. García’s work on indigeneity and interspecies politics in the Andes has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals such as Anthropology Now, Anthropological Quarterly, Environmental Humanities, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. Her second book, Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru (UC Press, 2021; winner of the Flora Tristán Prize for Best Book 2022, Peru Section, Latin American Studies Association), offers a critical exploration of Peru’s so-called gastronomic revolution, focusing on the intersections of race, species, and capital in that country. Her next project, Landscapes of Death: Political Violence Beyond the Human in the Peruvian Andes, considers the impact of political violence on other-than-human life (animals, lands, rivers, glaciers) in Peru during the recent war between the state and the Shining Path (1980-2000). More specifically, this project carefully explores the testimonies of Indigenous peoples (collected by the state-sponsored Truth and Reconciliation Commission or CVR) about the violence suffered by their non-human kin, the brutal severing of relations, and thinks through the significance of forms of mourning as expressed by both human and non-human beings. This project is anchored by the insistence of many Native scholars about the need to move beyond “damage-centered narratives” (Tuck 2009), and the importance of research that centers Indigenous language, being, and knowing. You can learn more about García's teaching and research here.
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Jonathan Mayer
Epidemiology; Geography
Jonathan Mayer
Epidemiology; Geography
Profile jmayer@uw.eduDr. Jonathan Mayer's professional interests include infectious disease ecology, African urban slum health, epidemiology of infectious diseases epidemiology of pain, movement patterns and disease spread, in addition to comparative health systems, spatial methods in epidemiology and health services. Epidemiology of pain is a recent interest and involvement. More information regarding Dr. Mayer's research interests can be found here.
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John Loeser
Neurological Surgery; Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
John Loeser
Neurological Surgery; Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Profile jdloeser@uw.eduDr. John D. Loeser is Professor emeritus of Neurological Surgery and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and was the Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Center at the University of Washington from 1983 to 1997. He has been active in research, teaching and patient care in the field of Pain Management for over 50 years. He is particularly interested in multidisciplinary pain management and the development of rational strategies for the treatment of patients with chronic pain.
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Oliver Fraser
Astronomy
Oliver Fraser
Astronomy
Profile ojf@uw.eduOliver guides hundreds of students each year through Astro 101, as well as teaching classes in astronomical observing and science communication.
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Theodore Myhre
School of Law
Theodore Myhre
School of Law
Profile tmyhre@uw.eduProfessor Myhre is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He teaches a variety of classes, including: Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research; Civil Procedure II; Negotiation; Persuasive Writing; Introduction to Law; Client Interviewing and Counseling; and International Commercial Arbitration. Professor Myhre also conducts seminars in Advanced Research and Writing, Law and Sex/Gender/Sexuality, and Landmark Cases in Civil Rights. He regularly teaches in the J.D. Program, the L.L.M Program, the M.J. Program, Early Fall Start, and the Honors Program. He believes strongly in experiential learning and serves as the faculty supervisor/head coach of the International Commercial Arbitration Competition Team. In 2021, Professor Myhre was recognized with the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the law school's Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, which he also received in 2020. He was the 2016 recipient of the SCALE Award for Outstanding Service to the Law School. Professor Myhre received the Honors Excellence in Teaching Award for 2015.
Prior to joining our faculty, Professor Myhre served as a Visiting Professor of Legal Writing at Seattle University School of Law. He has also served as an Acting Staff Attorney for the Washington State Supreme Court, a Managing Partner of McGlothin Myhre, PLLP, an Associate of Corr Cronin, LLP, Law Clerk to Justice Charles Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court, and Judicial Extern to Judge Thomas S. Zilly of the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington.
His practice areas include trial and appellate litigation, alternative dispute resolution, complex commercial litigation, employment law, business law, family law, and civil rights law. He holds a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law, an M.A. in History from Boston College, an M.A. in Modern European Intellectual History from Drew University, a Certificate in Language and Civilization from the University of Paris, and an interdisciplinary B.A. from The Evergreen State College. His current academic interests include discourse analysis, theories of interpretation, cultural studies, civil rights, international dispute resolution, and learning theory/pedagogy.
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Jeanette Bushnell
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Jeanette Bushnell
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
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Manka Varghese
College of Education
Manka Varghese
College of Education
Profile mankav@uw.eduThe major substantive areas in which I have taken a lead in my scholarship are teacher identities/teacher education for multilingual youth and multilingual youth and postsecondary transitions. In doing this work, I uniquely and simultaneously developed and contributed to an interdisciplinary approach and knowledge base in multilingual education that integrates historically separate disciplines. These include Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, Social Justice Education, and Critical Pedagogy.
My most significant work in multilingual education has been to raise the profile of the field of language teacher identity, now a prominent national and international subarea of scholarship. In addition to demonstrating how, as LM teachers go through their professional development and their classroom teaching, they are engaged in the making of their professional identities, I have most notably shown how teachers for LMs go beyond their classroom-specific roles and see themselves as agentive, both as advocates for children and families and as language policy makers. My research, along with my institutional context and role have lead me to investigate more closely the development of language teacher identity through teacher subjectivity and the intersections of race and language. Similar to my empirical approach in teacher education and teacher identities, I have sought to examine multilingual student backgrounds and their lives within school and college in order to provide guidelines and suggest policy implications, and have increasingly brought a stronger critical lens and approach to this work. As an ESL teacher and well before joining the faculty at the University of Washington, I was particularly concerned about the teaching and learning pathways of language minoritized youth in high school and college and the dearth of research in this area.
Teaching and learning in multilingual settings is not only a US phenomenon but one that has parallels in other countries in the world. More specifically, the ways that racial and other identities intersect with multilingual teaching are of international significance. I have been invited to speak about this topic in relation to language teacher identity and education in Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Canada and various U.S. based conferences and most recently in Colombia, and Hong Kong.
In recent work, I explore these perspectives through a study of immigration, race, language and schooling based in Italy. Two products based on this work have been a co-authored 2012 article in International Journal of Multicultural Education (IJME) and a book project I am currently working on entitled Raciolinguistics, Migration, and Schooling in Contemporary Italy. In this book, I aim to blend my personal narrative as an immigrant of color, growing up in Rome and my current understandings of the pathways of LM youth. These include perspectives that view pedagogical and systems-based approaches as deeply embedded in intersectional ideologies and practices of language, race, and immigration in schools.
My current research projects include the following: 1) I am focusing on studying the development of dual language teachers through an National Professional Development grant awarded by the Department of Education for which I am the P.I. and which is providing both scholarships for dual language teachers in the elementary teacher education program (ELTEP) in the college and specific preparation for these teachers as well as helping to create shifts within ELTEP. Recently, I have received funding (as a Co-PI) with colleagues in the college for a five year McDonnell foundation grant to conduct research around these teachers' asset-based discourses in literacy and science. I have also been the lead faculty in ELTEP in classes specific to multilingualism and has lead the creation of a focus on identity, race and language and their intersections within the program. 2) In another Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Research and Practitioner Partnership (RPP) grant for which I serve as the P.I. with Seattle Public Schools, we are partnering with them to examine both quantitatively and qualitatively their middle school to postsecondary data on students designated as English Learners (EL): Project PIMSELA: Partnering to Investigate Math and Science English Learners’ Access and Achievement (2017-2019). Due to my findings in previous work and existing gaps in scholarship, we are specifically focused on understanding how race may intersect with EL status in postsecondary pathways as well as the differences in services and supports within schools. In particular, we are interested in relationships between Math and Science course-taking patterns and postsecondary pathways
A distinctive analytical contribution of my work is my use of sociocultural, raciolinguistic, and poststructural frameworks to understand pathways of learning and identity formation of multilingual teachers and youth. I initially ventured outside the confines of linguistic analysis and the traditions of my formal preparation to draw on sociocultural frameworks that use relevant anthropological and sociological constructs. These mainly address how identities of multilingual teachers and youth are formed and learning happens within the duality of agency and structure: how as individuals and groups students and teachers can “make things happen” within structural opportunities and constraints. Drawing on the concepts of structure and agency (Giddens) and capital (Bourdieu) in my early work, I showed how these professional identities were being created as teachers’ own backgrounds were interacting with ideologically contested and resource-scarce spaces. Although I initially drew on similar concepts to understand multilingual youth’s postsecondary pathways, in my recent work I have also expanded my understanding of agency, structure, and capital to include non-traditional forms of capital which such as community cultural wealth. In the process, I became increasingly interested in conceptualizing the agency of both teachers and youth, although I have always framed agency not in terms of individual willpower but closely associated with the resources/capital that teachers and youth have access to and draw upon. In order to center race and language in teacher identity more distinctly, I have, in recent work, drawn on critical frameworks such as poststructuralism and raciolinguistics to examine power and subjectivity in teacher identity.
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Catherine Connors
Classics
Catherine Connors
Classics
Profile cconnors@uw.eduCatherine Connors has special interest in the representation of nature and geography in Greek and Roman literature, the study of women in Greek and Roman antiquity, and the adaptation and transformation of classical texts. In addition, she has worked closely with many students who have gone on to pursue careers in K-12 teaching, and she maintains an active interest in outreach projects that promote the teaching of Classical subjects in K-12 settings.
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Third Andresen
Comparative History of Ideas
Third Andresen
Comparative History of Ideas
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Dianne Hendricks
Bioengineering; Human Centered Design & Engineering
Dianne Hendricks
Bioengineering; Human Centered Design & Engineering
Profile dgh5@uw.eduWhether she’s inspiring undergraduates to explore new areas of knowledge or unlocking the scientific curiosity of K-12 students, Dianne Hendricks looks for ways to make a lasting impact. The new full-time lecturer in UW Bioengineering brings to her role expertise in laboratory teaching, mentoring and outreach. “There are certain opportunities you’ll remember and can direct you,” she says, and she is working to create those at UW Bioengineering.
Dr. Hendricks joined the faculty in January 2014 after spending several years at Duke University, earning her PhD in genetics in May 2010 and working in various teaching and mentorship roles. In BIOE, she will teach two courses for undergraduate majors, BIOEN 215, Introduction to Bioengineering Problem Solving, and BIOEN 410, Bioengineering Honors Seminar. She will also develop new laboratory modules for undergraduate courses that will incorporate molecular biology and genetic/tissue engineering topics, and help develop courses and curriculum as a member of the department’s Curriculum Committee. Interested in creating educational outreach opportunities for K-12 students, she is also launching the department’s new Summer Camp for high school students.
Move to bioengineering, UW
Dr. Hendricks came to bioengineering with a broad background in molecular and cellular biology. She discovered bioengineering entirely by chance: at Duke, she took on a newly-created teaching laboratory administrator position, responsible for more tightly integrating biology topics into the existing curriculum. In this role, she developed and supervised wet labs, trained teaching assistants and designed new experiments. Immediately she was “hooked” on bioengineering, and enjoyed it further the more she learned about ways bioengineers apply biology and engineering principles to solve real-world problems related to human health.
Her move to UW Bioengineering was motivated by the opportunities she saw to enhance students’ educational experiences through the department’s close relationship with the UW School of Medicine. Another draw was UW’s strong dedication to serving the community at large. Believing that the UW serves a vital role as a resource to Washington state, she says it’s important to her to join fellow faculty to “share passion for what they do” in a way that benefits students at UW and beyond. With this philosophy at heart, she is eager to work with a diverse undergraduate student body as well as engage with K-12 students in local schools.
Creating opportunities for education and outreach
Teaching and mentoring has been an important part of Dr. Hendricks’s life since an early age. Growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico (best known for being the home of the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory), she became accustomed to living in a scientific, highly educated community. However, when she left for college at the University of Texas at Austin, she realized that not everyone was raised in such an environment and saw an opportunity for introducing young people to science and engineering.
She participated in a variety of outreach activities in high school, and as an undergraduate was involved in a tutoring program that supported elementary school students in a low-resource and underserved area. She went on to lead numerous K-12 outreach initiatives at Duke, including the university’s Biosciences and Engineering Camp for middle school students.
K-12 education and outreach is particularly enjoyable for Dr. Hendricks because of the impact that young peoples’ fresh perspectives makes upon her own work. “Kids always have a different way of looking at something,” she explains, and she finds that their questions and insights renew her approach to specific problems. At UW BIOE, she looks forward to applying her enthusiasm for teaching young people to her role overseeing BIOE’s new Summer Camp, an immersive, week-long educational day camp for rising 9th and 10th graders.
A place in the UW Bioengineering community
Being new to UW BIOE, Dr. Hendricks immediately appreciated the faculty welcoming her into the close-knit, highly collaborative department community. She finds the department’s academic programs unique, she says; particularly interesting to her is the undergraduate program’s cohort structure, in which undergraduates move through the curriculum together from sophomore through senior year. This way of teaching undergraduates results in the students being well cared for and having an optimal educational experience, she says.
Jumping into her teaching responsibilities this spring quarter with BIOEN 215, Dr. Hendricks is eager to work with UW BIOE undergraduates from the start to the finish of their study in the program. “I hope to be a constant resource for them,” she explains. She also looks forward to contributing her biologic science expertise to the undergraduate curriculum. In the future, she is especially interested in developing biology-related capstone projects, and plans to reach out to departments across the medical school and biologic sciences to find exciting opportunities for students.
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Timothy Billo
Program on the Environment
Timothy Billo
Program on the Environment
Profile timbillo@uw.eduTim Billo is a lecturer at the College’s Environmental Studies program, as well as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Biology. His academic interests are grounded in basic observations of nature, and his research has included looking at why some traits are exchanged between species and others are not. He teaches a variety of field and lab courses, including an exploration of biodiversity and sustainability issues in Peru and a nine-day backpacking-based course focusing on the history of wilderness and landscape change in Washington’s Olympic National Park. In addition to Environmental Studies courses, he teaches ornithology, conservation biology, and evolution.
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Kenneth Pyle
Jackson School of International Studies
Kenneth Pyle
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile kbp@uw.eduKenneth Pyle is an historian of modern Japan with a deep interest in the interaction of Asia and the West. His first book, The New Generation in Meiji Japan, was a study of the first generation of Japanese to receive an education in the new Western-oriented schools and the problems of cultural identity that it caused for young Japanese. This project led him to several studies of the way in which Japanese nationalism and Meiji conservatism were constructed to respond to the influence of Western culture. Pyle became fascinated with the dynamics of historical change which he explored in The Making of Modern Japan and in a long article in the first issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies (of which he was the founding editor) entitled “The Advantages of Followership” which studied the way the Japanese sought to learn from the history of industrialization in the advanced countries and to avoid the struggle between labor and capital that had resulted.
More recently Pyle has worked on the postwar world. In The Japanese Question he argued that Japan had developed a grand strategy, the Yoshida doctrine, to rebuild itself as an economic power. In Japan Rising he argued that modern Japanese history can be understood as a pattern of Japanese responses to the changes in the international environment. Pyle am presently completing a book-length study of the “unnatural intimacy” in the postwar world between American liberal democracy and Japanese conservatism.
Pyle holds a joint appointment with the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and served for ten years as its director. He has maintained a strong interest in the way in which history impacts contemporary international relations. For example, Pyle has co-authored studies with former ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost on Japanese attitudes toward the rise of China and on Japanese attitudes toward the unification of Korea. He recently published a long essay entitled “Rising Powers: History and Theory” for a special edition of Strategic Asia devoted to the rise of China and India. Pyle was cofounder of the National Bureau of Asian Research, a nonpartisan think tank with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C., devoted to an intelligent American foreign policy toward Asia.
Pyle has been honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Rising Sun and was the recipient of the Japan Foundation’s 2008 Special Prize in Japanese Studies.
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Leah Ceccarelli
Communication
Leah Ceccarelli
Communication
Profile cecc@uw.eduLeah Ceccarelli, Professor, Department of Communication, is a scholar of rhetoric whose research focuses on interdisciplinary and public discourse about science. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American Public Address, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetoric of Science, and the Public Communication of Science. She directs the UW Science, Technology, and Society Studies Graduate Certificate program. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and co-edits a book series sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America and Penn State University Press on "Transdisciplinary Rhetoric." She is a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America and a recipient of the National Communication Association's Douglas W. Ehninger Rhetorical Scholar award for her career of research, and has received awards for her two academic books and for two of her most significant scholarly articles.
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Emily Pahnke Cox
Foster School of Business
Emily Pahnke Cox
Foster School of Business
Profile eacox@uw.eduEmily Cox Pahnke is an Associate Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Her research, at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance, focuses on understanding the resources that make ventures successful; specifically, the effects of entrepreneurs’ identification and acquisition of resources on venture founding, innovation, and IPOs. To study these questions, she uses novel, hand-collected longitudinal datasets and conducts extensive interviews and fieldwork to aid in interpreting the quantitative results. Professor Pahnke’s research contributes by highlighting the boundary conditions under which resources that are typically considered beneficial to ventures—such as venture capital, well-connected partners, or star employees—can be less helpful, or even harmful. Her research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal.
Professors Pahnke's research has been funded by the receipt of a Schulze Entrepreneurship Professorship and by the Kauffman Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She was the recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, the Industry Study Association’s Best Dissertation Award and was a finalist for the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management’s Best Dissertation Award. Professor Pahnke holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering and a M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University, and M.B.A (Finance) and B.S. (Botany) degrees from Brigham Young University.
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Melissa Frey
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Melissa Frey
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Profile freyma@uw.eduWhile I was formally trained as a biologist, I am broadly interested in both biological and cultural diversity. Throughout my early career, I worked as a researcher and an educator in academia and government. Eventually I gravitated towards natural history museums.
As a part-time instructor in the Honors Program, I aim to connect students to the public faces and behind-the-scene spaces of natural history museums. These museum-based courses are designed to encourage interdisciplinary learning across the fields of art, culture, and science — and foster meaningful reflection on the value of diversity and community.
In addition to teaching in the Honors Program, I serve as the Collections Manager of Invertebrate Zoology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture where I continue to pursue collections-based research and outreach. I am fascinated by the natural world, inspired by its beauty and innovation, and humbled by how much more we have to learn.
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Richard Conlin
Urban Design and Planning
Richard Conlin
Urban Design and Planning
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Daniel Bessner
Jackson School of International Studies
Daniel Bessner
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile dbessner@uw.eduDaniel Bessner is currently an Associate Professor in International Studies at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization and Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.
Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell, 2018), which you may order here.
He is also co-editor, with Nicolas Guilhot, of The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn, 2019).
Daniel has published scholarly articles in several journals and has also published pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, n+1, and other venues.
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John (Jack) Whelan
Foster School of Business
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Michelle Koutnik
Earth and Space Sciences
Michelle Koutnik
Earth and Space Sciences
Profile mkoutnik@uw.eduI am interested in the dynamics and histories of glaciers and ice sheets over time. This requires understanding the controls on ice flow, including climate changes. I work with data from Greenland and Antarctica, and apply ice-flow models and geophysical inverse methods to address process-based questions at these sites. I am also interested in the history of ice on Mars, in particular the large ice masses at the Martian poles.
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Damarys Espinoza
Nursing and Health Studies
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Elise Rainer
Scandinavian Studies
Elise Rainer
Scandinavian Studies
Profile eacr@uw.eduDr. Elise Rainer specializes in Swedish and U.S. politics, human rights foreign policy, international relations, and gender policies. Her recent book examines how LGBTI rights became incorporated into the foreign policies of Sweden and the United States. Dr. Rainer formerly worked in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, as well as USAID, and within the UN system.
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Cleo Woelfle-Erskin
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Cleo Woelfle-Erskin
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Profile cleowe@uw.eduCleo Woelfle-Erskine’s research focuses on human relations to rivers and their multi-species inhabitants. Trained in ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, social science, and feminist science and technology studies, he facilitates collaborative research in partnership with tribes, agencies, citizen scientists, and local community members. His PhD work in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley involved a collaborative of scientists and local residents who are experimenting with storing winter rain to increase summer streamflow to benefit salmon that rear in their local creeks. As a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, he explored queer, transgender, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. His manuscript in progress, Underflow: Transfiguring riverine relations, imagining queer-trans ecologies considers the lingering presences of Manifest Destiny (ecological, socio-scientific, and psychological) and the ways that this injurious “destiny” can be transfigured and overturned to renew human-water-fish relations. He is currently developing research projects on environmental justice dimensions of fishing and shellfishing around Puget Sound and co-teaches the Ecopoetics Along Shorelines field course (CHID / SMEA / Honors) with July Hazard.
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Davinder Bhowmik
Asian Languages and Literature
Davinder Bhowmik
Asian Languages and Literature
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William McKeithen
Geography
William McKeithen
Geography
Profile wmck@uw.eduWill McKeithen (they/them) recently completed their PhD in Geography at the University of Washington, where they also worked as a TA and lead instructor for over seven years. Will has also taught in the CHID and Honors Programs and in 2017-2018 they served as a Project in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) Fellow at UW Bothell. Will's research explores the uneven landscapes of health, wealth, and ecology, particularly as they impact environments and communities targeted by White supremacy, neoliberalism, and mass incarceration. Their most recent research examined the everyday administration of prison healthcare in Washington state's two women's prisons. They have also collaborated on a project investigating the bio-economy of medicinal parasites and their earliest work examined the queer intimacies of 'crazy cat ladies' under neoliberal capitalism. As a teacher, Will works with students to foster the tools necessary for individual success and collective liberation - critical thinking, active listening, local application, sustained curiosity, and ethical engagement.
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Rachel Chapman
Anthropology
Rachel Chapman
Anthropology
Profile rrc4@uw.eduRachel R. Chapman, PhD, is a social cultural applied anthropologist. Her current research interests are gender, race, reproductive health and social justice in the urban United States and Southern and East Africa. Her research focus is the political economy of race, gender, and reproduction, especially the impact of transglobal policies on reproductive stratification within and outside the United States. Chapman has conducted ethnographic research in Los Angeles, Cleveland and Central Mozambique. Her recent research was conducted in East Cleveland, Ohio on prenatal care, domestic violence and DV screening experiences of women in an urban safety net hospital, as well as youth resilience and peacemaking. In Mozambique Chapman focused on women's perceptions of reproductive risk, community health mobilization, and household management of febrile illnesses (malaria) in children. Her current research is collaborative and involves following up women in Mozambique to understand the influence of the HIV epidemic on their daily lives and choices. Her work seeks to identify why HIV+ pregnant women frequently do not access antiretroviral treatment for themselves and their unborn or newborn infants and to find ways to decrease loss to follow up of HIV+ pregnant women in prevention of mother-to-child transmission and their own antiretroviral treatment. Her current work with collaborators in the UW Department of Global Health also examines the influence of Pentecostal churches on HIV treatment seeking and adherence in Mozambique and the urban United States.
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Andrea Arai
Jackson School of International Studies
Andrea Arai
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile araia2@uw.eduAndrea Gevurtz Arai teaches Japan and East Asia anthropology and society courses in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Arai’s first book, The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Stanford U. Press, 2016) is a long-term multi-site fieldwork study of the social and cultural effects of the bursting of the financial bubble in the early 1990s in Japan and the protracted recession that followed. This ethnography delves deeply into how the recession provided the conditions for government and corporate “neoliberalization,” replacing former support and security in education and labor with new logics of self-responsibility, self-development and patriotism, privatizing public services; shifting cultural ideologies and producing a profound “uneasiness” about everyday life. The book traces the way that the young became the subjects of these unfamiliar or “strange” conditions and the objects of blame for not being able to fulfill new requirements of human capital development. The Strange Child tracks the hardships of this altered national-cultural environment as well as introduces some of the surprisingly creative responses of the recessionary generations.
Arai has edited, co-edited and contributed to three East Asia volumes: Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st Century East Asia (July, 2022-Digital and Print Teaching Volume and Pre-publication Draft) is the product of an interdisciplinary collaborative group of U.S. and East Asia based scholars and scholar-activists, and a May 2021 workshop organized by Arai and Jeffrey Hou (UW Built Environments) and supported by the UW Global Initiative Fund and Title VI East Asia Center. Arai also wrote the Introduction, “Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses” and chapter, “DIY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics and Women’s Projects in Post 3.11 Japan.” Spaces of Possibility In, Between and Beyond Korea and Japan (UW Press, 2016) w/Clark Sorensen, is the product of cross-national, collaborative fieldwork in Japan and South Korea. Arai’s chapter in this volume focuses on the struggles over how to represent the colonial period and postcolonial landscapes at the Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul and the Japan Folk Art Museum in Tokyo. Global Futures in East Asia (Stanford U. Press, 2013) w/Ann Anagnost. Arai’s chapter, “Notes to the Heart” in this volume engages with a moral’s curriculum for the age of recession and its relation to the 2006 revision of the Fundamental Law of Education enacted in 1947 alongside the new postwar constitution.
Arai’s second book project focuses on the social and cultural “development from below” movements in the peripheries, rural areas, outskirts of regional cities, and lower income sections of major cities in Japan. The second decade of Japanese neoliberal reforms have resulted in a social landscape of underemployment, income inequality, “social disconnection,” falling birth rates and over 8,500,000 vacant homes, schools and buildings. Further exacerbated by March, 2011 triple disasters of Fukushima, these realities inform and have transformed the lives, livelihood prospects and world views of the younger generations. Arai’s ethnographic project investigates creative action responses to these conditions. No longer able to fulfill and/or be satisfied with the former status quo of middle-class trajectories, increasing numbers of young Japanese are “turning away” from prescribed paths of social reproduction (including exiting salaried positions) and “turning to” environmentally conscious, gender and income equalizing DiY collective projects of social change. Informed by socio-political and ecological movements around the world, these projects challenge former gendered, spatial and environmental hierarchies of center and periphery and employ aesthetics of “rebuild, reuse and rescue” to reimagine forms of work and society, in contrast to the growth focused model of past generations. Arai’s second book describes the how, what and where of the innovative and imaginative rebuilding, creative reuse of materials, sharing of ideas, resources and knowledge, film and social media outreach and horizontal collaborations across social class, age, gender and ethnicities.
Arai is working on two separate articles: one on Hitomi Kamanaka’s documentary films and notions of eco-disaster, sacrifice zones and the interrelation between documentary film and social activism. The second focuses on notions of care, kin and nature in Michiko Ishimure’s novel, Lake of Heaven and Erika Kobayashi’s “Precious Stones.” This piece looks at intersections in these authors’ environmental and ethnographic sensibilities of life and thinking about and from the Japanese peripheries.
Arai is part of a new collaborative panel and project on “Aesthetics of Activism and Anthropology of the Possible” for the American Anthropology Association annual meeting in Seattle, WA, in November, 2022. Her paper is entitled: “The Performative Trans-Localities of “Standing-Together” (omdim b’yachad, naqif maean) in Israel-Palestine “
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Alex Gagnon
Oceanography
Alex Gagnon
Oceanography
Profile gagnon@uw.eduAlex Gagnon is a chemical oceanographer. He uses a geochemical approach to study how ocean acidification impacts calcifying organisms, such as corals, and how it impacts biogeochemical cycles more generally. With a focus on chemical mechanism in oceanography, he applies this small-scale understanding to explain global patterns. Operationally, his lab uses a combination of advanced analytical tools like multi-collector plasma source mass spectrometry and NanoSIMS, together with biological culture and modeling. There is also a field component to many projects including open-water SCUBA, tropical-reef monitoring, and the use of manned or unmanned deep-sea submersibles.
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Joseph Janes
Information School
Joseph Janes
Information School
Profile jwj@uw.eduI'm interested in how information and information resources work, what they are for, what they do and what they tell us about the human condition; in particular I study the cultural impacts and social roles of documents and documentary forms. In addition, I have a focus on libraries, how they work, how they change, how they have evolved, and what we can learn and adopt from previous practice, blended with new and exciting ideas, to keep libraries of all kinds vital, necessary and important parts of their communities. I teach courses in information sources and services, in search, in research methods and statistics, and the broad information field in general. Associate Professor Janes holds the MLS (1983) and PhD (1989) from Syracuse University.
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Kristi Govella
Jackson School of International Studies
Kristi Govella
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile kgovella@uw.eduKristi Govella is a Lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, as well as Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Her work focuses on the interrelationship between politics, economics, and security, and she is currently engaged in a number of projects to topics such as economics-security linkages, regional institutional architecture, non-traditional security, and the global commons. Dr. Govella has co-directed two study abroad programs for the University of Washington Honors Program. Her publications include Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions and Strategies in Asia, Europe, and the United States (2013) and Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from Europe and the United States (2012). Prior to joining GMF, Dr. Govella was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese, Cum Laude with College Honors, from the University of Washington.
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Dan Paz
Comparative History of Ideas
Dan Paz
Comparative History of Ideas
Profile danpaz@uw.eduPaz is a visual artist whose work and teaching explores the labor of lens-based production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, among them Fábrica de Arte Cubano in Havana, Hayward Gallery in London, NYC Media Lab, and at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center and Museum of Contemporary Art. Paz's project Arte No es Fácil received The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Connection grant in addition to support from The Open Practice Committee and a University of Chicago Arts grant. New work has been developed at many residencies including The Studios of Key West Artist Residency, Chicago Artist Coalitions’ Hatch Residency, The Luminary in St. Louis, MO, ACRE Artist Residency in Wisconsin, and 8550 in Ohio.Oftentimes artists are motivated by what is most urgently needed in their world. Revolution, justice, peace and quiet, and community; artists have a way of sifting through the gnarled world and opening a door to reveal their insights. This composition class is designed to explore and deconstruct this kind of reflexive writing praxis. Through a collaborative lens, we will chew on Post-Modern writing that challenges patriarchal structures; deconstruct old forms to configure new ones, and in the process lean into experimental modes of writing and dialogic inquiry.Students will draw inspiration from critical writing, contemporary prose, poetry, narrative and non-narrative text, interviews, and lectures that explore themes including critical race theory, gender, nationality, and belonging. Students will be asked to complete various independent research and writing assignments to consolidate writings into an experimental zine publication. This course will ideally challenge students to think outside of rote writing practices, to engage in other lives with new eyes, make responsible or wildly irresponsible decisions, and be ok with figuring out who they are in relation to others. -
Christian Novetzke
Jackson School of International Studies
Christian Novetzke
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile novetzke@uw.eduChristian Lee Novetzke is Professor in the South Asia Program, the Comparative Religion Program, and the International Studies Program at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. He is also Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas department. He teaches and writes about religion, history, and culture in South Asia, as well as theoretical issues in the study of religion in general and its intersection with historiography, publics, texts, performance, film, and politics. His work engages public ethics in relation to caste, gender, and power in the past and present. He works with Marathi and Hindi materials, including textual, ethnographic, and visual/filmic sources. He specializes in the study of Maharashtra from the second millennium CE to the present, ranging from the medieval period, through the colonial and modern periods, to the postcolonial era. Professor Novetzke’s first book, Religion and Public Memory (Columbia University Press 2008) won the American Academy of Religion’s award “The Best First Book in the History of Religions” in 2009. The book has been published in India under the title History, Bhakti, and Public Memory by Permanent Black. His second book, co-authored with William Elison and Andy Rotman, is Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation, published by Harvard University Press in 2016. His third book, solo authored, is The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India, published by Columbia University Press, 2016. His edited the volume Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart (University of Washington Press, 2019) with Jack Hawley and Swapna Sharma. Novetzke has written several articles with Professor Sunila S. Kale on yoga as a form of politics, and they are currently completing a book for Columbia University Press on yoga as a political concept. In addition, Novetzke is working on a project on the political poetry and thought of Savitribai Phule.
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Anne Potjans
English
Anne Potjans
English
Profile apotja@uw.eduAnne Potjans teaches American literature and culture at the department for English and American Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she currently works on her Ph.D. project “Why Are You So Angry? − The Uses of Rage and Abjection in Black Feminist Literature.” Apart from that she has worked on diasporic connections between African American and Black German feminist autobiographical writing in the post-World War II period and the intersections of Blackness, sexuality, and racial visibility in German film productions. Her research interests are in Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Queer of Color Critique, and Disability Studies.
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Adam Warren
History
Adam Warren
History
Profile awarren2@uw.eduI am an associate professor of Latin American history in the Department of History. As a specialist in colonial and republican Peru and the history of medicine, I am interested in how medical and scientific research have been used to explain social inequalities and frame projects of population reform and control in the Andes. I am the author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2010. I have also published numerous articles in history of medicine and Latin American history journals that examine the intersection of Spanish, Indigenous, and African healing practices in Peru and Bolivia, as well as the treatment of Indigenous patients by Spanish practitioners. My new research focuses on epidemics, the history of medicine, eugenics, and racial science in Peru during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. I am particularly interested in the ways scientists grappled with claims of the indigenista movement in their research on Peru’s Indigenous populations and debates about modernization. I also recently received a collaborative research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to co-author with Martha Few (Penn State) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU) a monograph on the history of the postmortem cesarean operation's use for the purposes of fetal baptism in the Spanish and Portuguese empires. We recently completed a separate volume of translated eighteenth and nineteenth-century texts on this subject with a critical introduction, which will be available from Penn State University Press in 2020.
Although my research is primarily focused on Peru, my teaching and training extends to include Mexico, the Caribbean, all of Central and South America, and other parts of the world. I regularly teach courses at the University of Washington on the history of the Aztecs (Mexica), the history of Mexico, the history of colonial Latin America, the history of Peru and the Andes, and the history of global health.
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Velma Veloria
American Ethnic Studies
Velma Veloria
American Ethnic Studies
Profile velorv@uw.eduVelma Veloria, Director of Advocacy and Mobilization for the Equity in Education Coalition, joins the Honors Program in 2019 as our first Curriculum and Community Innovation Scholar. As the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the Washington State Legislature, Veloria brings with her a rich history of grassroots leadership and advocacy expertise. During her two-year appointment, Veloria will create courses about civic activism and human trafficking and lead conversations and opportunities to get involved and make change.
Learn more about Velma Veloria HERE.
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Ann Gale
Art
Ann Gale
Art
Profile galenic@uw.eduAnn Gale taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 1992–1995, prior to joining the faculty of the University of Washington in 1995. She is represented by Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco; Lyonswier Packer Gallery, New York and Chicago; and Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee. Gale’s awards include: Elizabeth Greenshields Individual Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts/Western States Arts Federation Artist Fellowship, University of Washington Royalty Research Scholar Grant, Washington Arts Council/Artist Trust Artist Fellowship, University of Washington Junior Faculty Development Award, two Artist Trust GAP awards, and Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship.
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Gillian Harkins
English
Gillian Harkins
English
Profile gharkins@uw.eduBoth my teaching and research focus on the intersections of gender, sexuality and race as they shape relations between cultural forms and social formations. Courses on Cultural Studies, Theories of the Novel, Contemporary Literature, and Gender and Sexuality ask how novels, experimental prose, and visual media shape broader social and political conditions across North America and its transnational contexts. Related research has resulted in articles and books exploring popular culture and politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States, with a specific focus on how dynamics of age, power, and sexuality have played a key if under-examined role in the dominant cultural logics of this period. My first book Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) explores how a 1990s “boom” in novels and popular media about father-daughter incest contributed to broader transformations of family life associated with neoliberal governance. My second book Virtual Pedophilia: Profiling Sex Offenders and U.S. Security Culture (Duke University Press, 2020) explores how the roughly contemporaneous emergence of the “pedophile” in film, television, and digital texts linked techniques of information science and visual surveillance across forensic and filmic domains to couple neoliberal governance with security culture.
Additional research and teaching focus on education justice and prison abolition. I have benefited from work with three higher education in prison programs in the Puget Sound Area: the University Beyond Bars offering courses inside the Washington State Reformatory for men since 2009 [http://universitybeyondbars.org/]; the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound offering courses inside the Washington Corrections Center for Women since 2011 [http://fepps.org/]; and the Black Prisoners Caucus T.E.A.C.H. program offering courses inside the Clallam Bay Correctional Center since 2012 [http://www.blackprisonerscaucus.org/currentprogramsofbpc/t-e-a-c-h].
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Selim Kuru
Near East Language and Literature
Selim Kuru
Near East Language and Literature
Profile selims@uw.eduI am a historian of Western Turkish literature and literary culture who is trained as a philologist my interests include formulations of gender in Ottoman and Modern Turkish literatures, literary circles and literary competition in Anatolian Turkic city-states and the Ottoman Empire within a large frame of literature as a consistent and pervasive human experience. My courses on Ottoman and Modern Turkish cultures and literatures as well as language courses in Ottoman Turkish and advanced level modern Turkish language incorporate verbal and visual texts to investigate the role of literature and arts in the formation of societies.
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Akhtar Badshah
Evans School of Public Policy; UW Bothell Business
Akhtar Badshah
Evans School of Public Policy; UW Bothell Business
Profile akhtarb@uw.eduProfessor Badshah is focused on exploring the changing social impact space and its impact on the nonprofit and social development space. He also looks at the intersection of technology, especially exponential technologies and its impact on societies and how nonprofits can effectively utilize these technologies. Badshah also launched Accelerating Social Transformation, an executive leadership development course for mid-career professionals working in the social impact space.
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Sabine Lang
Jackson School of International Studies
Sabine Lang
Jackson School of International Studies
Profile salang@uw.eduSabine Lang is Professor of International and European Studies at JSIS. She holds the Jean Monnet Chair in Civil Society, Inclusion, and Diversity from the European Union and directs the Center for West European Studies, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Germanics, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her work is in comparative politics with a focus on civil society, the public sphere, the nongovernmental sector, and gender politics. Her current research focuses on gendered political representation in the European Union and on EU-level public engagement processes.
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Lauren Poyer
Scandinavian Studies
Lauren Poyer
Scandinavian Studies
Profile lpoyer@uw.eduLauren Poyer is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies. She is a medievalist who specializes in Old Norse-Icelandic studies, and her research focuses on Christian folk religion as represented in the Sagas of Icelanders. She regularly teaches Scandinavian Mythology, Sagas of the Vikings, Vikings in Popular Culture, and Old Norse Language. She believes that investigating modern cultural myths about the Middle Ages gives students the tools they need to become better-prepared and better-informed citizens of the world, and that learning to understand people from the past in their own words can help students become more aware of how language and culture shape their own lives and open doors into the lives of others.Tags:
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Jonathan Lee
Comparative History of Ideas
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Charles Stobbs
Art
Charles Stobbs
Art
Profile csisopod@uw.eduCharles Stobbs is an artist and instructor based in Seattle, WA.
He recieved his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from the University of Washington.
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Caitlin Postal
English
Caitlin Postal
English
Profile cpostal@uw.eduCaitlin Postal (she/her) is a doctoral student at the University of Washington, working at the intersection of medieval literature, material culture, and digital humanities. Her current work considers how incorporating manuscript materiality into digital editions provides contemporary readers and editors a role in the meaning-making process. Interested in temporality and materiality, Caitlin has a keen interest in critical disciplinary history, including questions of canonicity, authority, and periodization. In addition to the RCLM, she is a contributor to the Archive of Early Middle English and Rolls and Scrolls After the Codex. She holds an M.A. in English from California State University Northridge and a B.A. in English from Westmont College.
Adjacent to her interests in textuality and materiality, she is interested in contemporary fan studies, costuming, and incorporating pop culture in the classroom. She also explores ethics and accessibility of educational technology, asking students to interrogate their user data and digital privacies. You may have seen her cosplay as Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones somewhere on the internet.
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Meher Antia
Population Health
Meher Antia
Population Health
Profile meher@uw.eduMeher is experienced in conceiving, developing, and leading programs and partnerships to support biomedical and health innovations. She oversees the Washington Research Foundation’s grant programs, including their Technology Commercialization grants, which help advance promising technologies at Washington state research institutions to commercial success.
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Susanne Rinner
Germanics
Susanne Rinner
Germanics
Profile rinners@uw.eduDr. Susanne Rinner is a teacher-scholar and the author of The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent (2013). In 2012, she edited a special issue of International Poetry Review with a focus on poetry written in German by multilingual authors. Her current book project, tentatively titled Heroic Rebels: Representations of Radical Identities in Contemporary German Fiction, examines the image of the rebel in fiction, film, and media. From 2007-2019, Susanne worked at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as an Associate Professor of German Studies. Currently, she teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the Program Director for SPARK for German, a joint project of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Goethe-Institut. In 2018 and 2019, Susanne served as AATG President. She volunteers as a translator for the project Migrants of the Mediterranean.
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LaTasha Levy
American Ethnic Studies
LaTasha Levy
American Ethnic Studies
Profile levyl@uw.eduLa TaSha Levy is a Black Studies scholar who currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington – Seattle. She earned a Ph.D. in African American Studies at Northwestern University; a master’s in Africana Studies at Cornell University; and a bachelor’s from the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include post-WWII African American politics, Black intellectual history, and Black Women's Studies.
Dr. Levy's book manuscript, “Race Matters in the GOP,” traces the dramatic, ideological shift in Black Republican politics during the height and decline of the modern civil rights movement. She argues that the ideological shift in Black Republicanism, which pivoted from liberal to conservative, had devastating consequences for racial liberalism and two-party politics. For this work, she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute.
Prior to graduate study, Dr. Levy worked in student affairs, having served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center and assistant dean of the Office of African American Affairs at the University of Virginia.
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Megan McCloskey
Law School; Law Societies and Justice
Megan McCloskey
Law School; Law Societies and Justice
Profile meganmc@uw.eduMegan McCloskey is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Law and Graduate Student Lecturer in the Law, Societies and Justice Department. Her research and advocacy are focused on assessing the effectiveness of international human rights law and development policy in recognizing and advancing the rights of women and girls with disabilities. With Stephen Meyers, Megan co-authored the leading global study on the prevention of and responses to gender-based violence against young people with disabilities and realization of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. (UNFPA, 2018) Megan is also a co-author of a 2018 research study (not publicly available) for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Catalina Devandas. The study served as a baseline assessment to inform a new system-wide action plan and accountability framework to promote disability inclusion within UN agencies, programs and funds system.
Megan practiced law for more than 10 years in Seattle before founding an NGO to provide research and advocacy support to women’s rights and anti-discrimination advocates worldwide.
She has written and presented on a variety of topics relating to the protection of women’s rights, including access to justice and legal responses to domestic violence in Viet Nam and the impact of women’s political leadership on development in Rwanda.Megan holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law, an LL.M. in Sustainable International Development Law from the University of Washington Law School, and a Master of Arts in International Studies from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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Beatrice Arduini
French and Italian Studies
Beatrice Arduini
French and Italian Studies
Profile barduini@uw.eduBeatrice Arduini is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Washington. She completed her undergraduate work and earned a doctorate at the University of Milan, and received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her work centers Medieval Italian literature and Dante Studies, particularly manuscript culture and early book history. Her projects include the analysis of Giovanni Boccaccio's authorship of the Decameron and his role as copyist and editor of Dante's works, in particular the Rime. Dr. Arduini is interested in the development of the poem collection genre (canzonieri), and works composed of verse and prose (prosimetra). Her work brings attention to how the material transformation of medieval texts entails changes in the meaning and cultural significance of those texts through the different stages of the publication process.
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Jang Wook Huh
American Ethnic Studies
Jang Wook Huh
American Ethnic Studies
Profile jwhuh@uw.eduDr. Jang Wook Huh is an assistant professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington. He specializes in ethnic American and comparative literature, with an emphasis on the circulation of blackness in a transpacific context. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the literary and cultural connections between black liberation struggles in the United States and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations. His work has appeared in American Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Journal of Korean Studies, Langston Hughes Review, Literature Compass, and other venues. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Fulbright Program, among others.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Washington, Professor Huh taught in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He holds a BA from Seoul National University and a PhD from Columbia University.Tags:
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Angie Ong
Museology; Information School
Angie Ong
Museology; Information School
Profile aong@uw.eduAfter spending 15 years in consumer and technology marketing, I decided to pursue my lifelong passion for learning, teaching, and storytelling. I have since worked across many museum disciplines including fundraising, collections management, and exhibition development, before finding my home in the field of audience research and evaluation.
For over a decade, I have served many roles in the audience research and evaluation field—as practitioner, advocate, and teacher. I have lead and contributed to numerous projects as well as multi-year research studies funded by NSF, IMLS, NASA and NIH. I have designed, developed, and implemented evaluation studies, facilitated project planning, conducted evaluation capacity-building workshops, and supported grant-writing efforts.
Over the past three years, I've had the opportunity to merge my past life (working at Microsoft) with my current life (working with museums) in teaching a class on Museums & Technology. This issues-based course empowers students to explore how these two fields intersect and consider the impact of that intersection on the organizations and the communities it serves. Through this work, my interest in project-based learning and upstream problem-solving has been ignited.
I hold a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from The George Washington University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. I am the past-chair for the American Alliance of Museum’s Committee on Audience Research & Evaluation (CARE), a member of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA), American Evaluation Association (AEA), Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), and Museums and the Web (MuseWeb).
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- Introduction to Museum Evaluation (MUS.574)
- Evaluation: Data Analysis & Interpretation (MUS.575)
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Nancy Beadie
Education
Nancy Beadie
Education
Profile nbeadie@uw.eduNancy Beadie is Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Beadie's research focuses on historical relationships among education, economics, and state formation at local, state, national, and international levels. Her current book project, Paramount Duty of the State: Education and State Formation in the U.S., 1846-1912, analyzes the significance of education in federal policy and the process of state (re)formation during the rise of the US as a global economic and imperial power at the end of the 19th century. Previous publications include Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which won the Outstanding Book Award from the History of Education Society and Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 (NY: Routledge Press, 2002), co-edited with Kim Tolley, as well as a numerous articles in US and international journals. In addition to the politics and economics of education, Dr. Beadie has written extensively on the history of women in education. This work includes two articles for which she received the prize for Best Article Published in a Refereed Journal awarded by the History of Education Society. Other publications include an essay on the rise of national educational systems in North America, for the Oxford Handbook on the History of Education, edited by John Rury and Eileen Tamura, scheduled for 2019 and another on federal education policy and the rise of social science research published in the Centennial Anniversary Volume of the Review of Research on Education, 2016. Dr. Beadie is currently senior editor of History of Education Quarterly. She has also served as President of the History of Education Society (U.S.) and as Vice-President of the American Educational Research Association for Division F (History and Historiography).
Dr. Beadie teaches courses on the history of education and education reform in the United States, the history of urban education, education as the transfer of culture, historical research methods in education, and the social history of gender in education. In addition to serving as Senior Editor of History of Education Quarterly (U.S.), she is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for History of Education Review (Australia). She has served as President of the History of Education Society (U.S.) and as Vice-President of the American Educational Research Association for Division F (History and Historiography).
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Sutapa Basu
GWSS
Sutapa Basu
GWSS
Profile sbasu@uw.eduSutapa Basu, Ph.D. is the executive director of the University of Washington Alene Moris Women’s Center, a vital place where women and men partner to build a community culture of gender equity. Under Dr. Basu’s leadership, the UW Women’s Center is one of the country’s largest university-based women’s centers. Dr. Basu is recognized as a global leader and advocate for women’s issues, girls’ education, gender equality, sustainable development, and human rights, particularly for those who have been victims of human trafficking abuse. Her areas of academic specialization are women in developing economies and international development, and she addresses these topics through the lenses of post-colonial feminism and anti-racism. Ending global human trafficking and violence against women and children are central goals of her research and activism. Committed to marrying her scholarship and professional praxis Dr. Basu ensures that through educational, professional, and personal support programs, women and girls have the choices and material resources to make the best decisions for their future.
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Connie So
American Ethnic Studies
Connie So
American Ethnic Studies
Profile ccso@uw.eduDr. Connie So, an immigrant from Hong Kong, grew up in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. She received her BAs in English and Communications from the University of Washington (1987), MPA from Princeton University (1989) and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley (2000). She is a Professor of Teaching (2020) at UW’s American Ethnic Studies department and the Supervisor of the department’s Community Practicum and Internship. She has been active and served on the boards of several local Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander American groups. Since 2020, Dr. So has been the President of the OCA Asian Pacific Advocates of Greater Seattle.
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Annegret Oehme
Department of Germanics
Annegret Oehme
Department of Germanics
Profile oehme@uw.eduOriginally from Zwickau, Germany, I came to the United States to obtain a Ph.D. degree. My research interests include medieval and early modern German and Yiddish literature and cultural transfers within a German-Jewish context. I am currently working on a book project concerning the adaptations and transformations of Wigalois, a text describing the adventures of an Arthurian knight, across different languages (Yiddish and German) as well as across different media (manuscripts, prints, wall paintings, comics) from the 13th to the 21st centuries.
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Brendan Goldman
Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Brendan Goldman
Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Profile bgg213@uw.eduBrendan Goldman is a historian of the Jewish communities of the medieval Islamic world and a specialist in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. He served the past two years (2018-2020) as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, where he coordinated the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop and taught at Northern State Prison, Newark, NJ. He received his Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University in 2018.
Brendan’s first book, “Camps of the Uncircumcised: The Cairo Geniza and Jewish Life in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem,” is under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press and forthcoming in 2021. His second book project, tentatively titled “A Disciplinary Society: Medieval Prisons through Jewish Eyes, 1000-1300,” examines how Cairo Geniza documents can illuminate the ways state violence shaped the lives of everyday people during the Middle Ages.
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Amanda Friz
Department of Communication
Amanda Friz
Department of Communication
Profile afriz@uw.eduDr. Friz specializes in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and Science and Technology Studies (STS), particularly queer feminist STS. Her research utilizes rhetorical criticism as well as rhetorical field methods to examine rhetorical-scientific constructions of women’s sexual health, broader public understanding of health and medical science, and vernacular bioethics. Research on these topics from biological, psychological, and pharmacological perspectives tends to proceed from heteronormative and masculinist conceptions of sexual health, science, and ethics. Queer feminist STS and RHM provide ideal means to challenge these assumptions, particularly when they are used as the foundation for knowledge about what constitutes healthy or unhealthy practices. Her scholarship has been published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Media Culture & Society, as well as in the new RHM edited collection Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field.
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Taylor Soja
Department of History
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KC Cole
Physics
KC Cole
Physics
Profile kc314@uw.eduKC Cole explores connections between science, art, society in books, magazines, newpapers, radio, teaching and live events. She's the author of five nonfiction books including the best-seller, The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty. She's currently "senior senior" correspondent for Wired magazine, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Quanta, Discover and many other publications. Professor Emerita at USC, she received an EMMA from the National Women's Political Caucus and a science writing prize from the American Institute of Physics.
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Joseph Wilson
English
Joseph Wilson
English
Profile jwils@uw.eduIn both my teaching and administrative work, I am interested in locating alternative relationships and knowledges writers foster when engaging in translations across genres, modalities, and language representations. My dissertation locates these relationships across trajectories of migration and literacy in contemporary Central Asia, including borderlands regions in Northern Kazakhstan, asking how we might attune our approach to transnational literacies to locate moments of friction and displacement generated via decolonial efforts and by both seismic and micro-moments of sociolinguistic and geopolitical change.
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Melike Yucel Koc
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Melike Yucel Koc
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Profile yucelm@uw.eduMelike Yucel-Koc is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches courses in Turkish language & culture as well as Introduction to the Near East Course. She also has academic experience as a graduate teaching assistant at Portland State University and a graduate research assistant at Seattle Pacific University.
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Stephanie Smallwood
History; Comparative History of Ideas; Honors Program
Stephanie Smallwood
History; Comparative History of Ideas; Honors Program
Profile ses9@uw.eduStephanie Smallwood is an associate professor in the Department of History, where she holds the Dio Richardson Endowed professorship, and she has a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas. She has devoted the past 15 years at the University of Washington to undergraduate teaching and mentorship on the histories of slavery, race and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world. Guiding students in their exploration of the challenging problems that have profoundly shaped our world remains as fresh and rewarding for her today as when she began her career as a teacher-scholar nearly 25 years ago.
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LaShawnDa Pittman
American Ethnic Studies
LaShawnDa Pittman
American Ethnic Studies
Profile lpittman@uw.eduDr. LaShawnDa Pittman is an Assistant Professor in the American Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Washington (UW). She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Northwestern University. Before coming to the UW, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Poverty Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University.
Research/Teaching Areas: As an urban poverty ethnographer, Dr. Pittman’s research focuses primarily on social policy; carework; health disparities; aging; race, class, and gender; and more. Specifically, she examines the coping experiences of socially marginalized women, including Black women living with HIV/AIDS and low-income, urban Black grandmothers caring for their grandchildren.
Current Projects: Dr. Pittman is currently focusing on three distinct but interrelated aspects of grandparent caregiving: (1) Her forthcoming book, Coerced Mothering: Caregiving and African American Grandmothers examines the coercive forces that compel grandmothers to provide care under the harshest conditions and affiliated questions concerning individual coping responses, institutional and familial barriers and resources; (2) recent manuscripts investigate the structural lag between grandparent-headed households and safety net programs; and (3) a mixed methods project utilizing qualitative and biomarker methodologies examines the stress-mediated health impacts of low-income, African American grandmothers raising their grandchildren.
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Monica Rojas
Jackson School
Monica Rojas
Jackson School
Profile rojasm@uw.eduMonica Rojas-Stewart (she/her), Ph.D. originally from Peru, has collaborated as a cultural consultant, guest artist, music, and dance instructor with various organizations and programs throughout the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. Mother, artivist, and scholar, she is the founder of the DE CAJóN Project and Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MÁS), two arts organizations dedicated to educating about the history and cultural contributions of people of African descent in Peru and Latin America respectively. Rojas-Stewart is the Assistant Director of the African Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs at The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at UW.
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Robin Angotti
UWB: School of Stem, Division of Engineering and Mathematics
Robin Angotti
UWB: School of Stem, Division of Engineering and Mathematics
Profile riderr@uw.eduRobin Angotti is a Professor of Mathematics. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent and Young Adulthood Mathematics and has over 30 years teaching experience at the high school, community college, undergraduate and graduate levels. Before coming to UW Bothell in 2007, Dr. Angotti was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Math, Science & Technology Education and the Assistant Director for the Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education at East Carolina University. In her free time, Dr. Angotti enjoys riding bikes, kayaking, skiing and roaming the wild lands of the majestic Cascade Mountains.
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Gabriel Teodros
Comparative History of Ideas
Gabriel Teodros
Comparative History of Ideas
Profile gteodros@uw.eduGabriel Teodros is a musician and writer from South Seattle who first made a mark with the group Abyssinian Creole, and reached an international audience with his critically-acclaimed solo debut album Lovework. He has been setting stages on fire ever since, all across the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Ethiopia and South Africa; often in combination with workshops on creative writing, music, history, science fiction and media literacy.
His latest album, From the Ashes of Our Homes, opens with a reflection on the day Teodros and his spouse Ijeoma Oluo fled from an actual house fire, and expands to a full-length meditation on the loss of home and safety so many of us experienced these last few years as a result of wars, the pandemic, the climate catastrophe, and more - and how do we build something new from the ashes of all of our collective homes.
In 2020, Teodros launched the show Early on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, which he hosted 5 days a week for the next 3 years, eventually passing the show on to make more time for his own music, a new podcast entitled Worldwide Underground, and to co-teach a class in the University of Washington’s Honors department titled Lovework, an Unfinished Syllabus, named for Teodros’ 2007 LP and inspired by the work of bell hooks.
In 2015, Teodros made his speculative fiction debut with a story published in Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, and in 2016 he graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop for Speculative Fiction.For more information log on to www.gabrielteodros.com
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Oliver Rollins
American Ethnic Studies
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Smadar Ben-Natan
Law, Societies, and Justice
Smadar Ben-Natan
Law, Societies, and Justice
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Lilian Tang
Honors Program; Advisor
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Rachel Sobel
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Rachel Sobel
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
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Mark Sullivan
Psychiatry
Mark Sullivan
Psychiatry
Profile sullimar@uw.eduDr. Sullivan received his M.D. and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. After completing an internship in Family Medicine at University of Missouri, he completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 1988. He is now Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. He has served as attending physician in the UWMC Center for Pain Relief for 35 years. He has published over 330 peer-reviewed articles. He has a book on patient empowerment, The Patient As Agent of Health and Health Care, and a new book, written with Jane Ballantyne, The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic both published by Oxford University Press.
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