Affiliated Research Centers
Six major centers are closely associated with the department and
led by department faculty. Each of these centers has a different
substantive focus, is funded in different ways, is uniquely organized,
and is connected to varying constituencies in the department, on
campus, in the profession, and in the community. Together these
centers demonstrate the high degree of collaborative scholarly activity
- both through intellectual clusters cutting across fields within
the department and through interdisciplinary linkages across the
campus - that is a trademark of the political science faculty.
http://depts.washington.edu/ampol/
The Center for American Politics and Public Policy, established
at the University of Washington in 1996 and directed by Professor
Bryan Jones, is a focal point for the study of politics and public
policy processes in the United States. The primary intellectual
objectives of CAPP include: (1) fostering internationally recognized
research by faculty and students on American politics and public
policy; (2) providing education, training, and hands-on experience
at the graduate and undergraduate levels for the next generation
of American politics and public policy scholars; and (3) serving
as a repository for data and other forms of information that can
be used to study the policy choices made in the United States, especially
information reflecting the evolution of policy choices. CAPP fosters
an intellectually vibrant setting for such study through research,
seminars, visiting speakers, graduate training and fellowships,
and undergraduate education programs and fellowships. Faculty affiliated
with the center have generated numerous research grants from NSF
and other sources as well as published essays in the top political
science and policy journals. As such, CAPP is integral to the Department's
future. Visit the CAPPP
Web Site.
Affiliated Faculty
http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/
The Center for Labor Studies was created in 1992 as a joint program
in the Departments of Political Science and History at the University
of Washington. The center, and the endowed chair who directs it
(recent political science faculty holders David Olson and Margaret
Levi) are funded by over 1,000 donors whose contributions honor
the legacy of the late Harry Bridges, the outstanding founder and
leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union for over
40 years. The Center for Labor Studies supports research, teaching,
and community outreach, all focusing on labor's contribution to
society. Within the university, the center promotes the study of
labor in all of its facets, locally, nationally, and worldwide.
The Center for Labor Studies coordinates the efforts of faculty
members throughout the University of Washington to develop and expand
labor-related components of the university's curriculum. It provides
encouragement and assistance to young scholars studying work and
workers. The Center for Labor Studies also provides a meeting place
where people from the academic world and the labor movement can
exchange ideas and insights. It sponsors activities in the community
so that issues of concern to labor can reach the widest possible
audience. It offers an undergraduate minor as well as prizes, scholarships,
and research grants to students and faculty alike. Visit the CLS
website.
Affiliated Faculty
http://depts.washington.edu/class
The CLASS Center grew out of a mult-iunit social science effort,
led by Professor Michael McCann, to develop an interdisciplinary
law and society program on the UW campus. Over twenty scholars in
the social sciences, including eight political scientists, and the
law school are affiliated with the Center. The center's intellectual
agenda focuses on the study of socio-legal practices in comparative
perspective across national, sub-national, and transnational settings,
emphasizing in particular the growing role of law in shaping and
responding to processes of globalization,democratization, and neo-liberalism.
The CLASS Center houses and administers the new Law, Societies,
and Justice undergraduate major, which will serve as an attractive
second major (or minor) and curricular resource for many of the
Political Science Department's students. An interdisciplinary graduate
certificate program in legal studies is available for CLASS Graduate
Fellows, which include many political science graduate students.
The CLASS Center also organizes workshops, conferences, ongoing
seminar groups, distinguished visiting lectureships, and research
grant generation from NSF, the Ford Foundation, and other sources.
Visit the CLASS website.
Affiliated Faculty
http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/
The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, directed by Professor
Lance Bennett, is dedicated to understanding and facilitating the
uses of both traditional and new media systems and communication
practices to promote citizen engagement in local, national, and
global affairs. Faculty and student affiliates of the center engage
in research, policy analyses, educational programs, and the development
of Web-based information and network resources for citizens, scholars,
and journalists. This is an important historical period in which
to develop communication models aimed at creating opportunities
for citizens to find voice for new experiences and social concerns.
The activities of the center seek to identify and promote these
new forms of engagement while studying their relationships to traditional
aspects of communication, politics, and group life. The center has
a broad range of research capabilities drawn from faculty affiliates
and aided by the technology laboratories of participating departments.
Primary responsibilities for coordinating the research, learning,
and outreach activities of the center are shared by faculty and
students in political science along with other departments, centers,
and schools. Visit the
CCCE website.
Affiliated Faculty
http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/euc.html
The European Union Center of Seattle, established in 1998 with a
grant from the European Union and matching funds from the University
of Washington, is one of ten official EUCs in the United States
designed to promote the study of EU and trans-Atlantic relations.
The EUC provides research grants for faculty and graduate students,
funds scholarly conferences, hosts an annual Marshall-Monnet Visiting
Scholar (a distinguished European professor who teaches a quarter-long
seminar) and a European Union Fellow (an official on leave from
the EU commission or parliament who teaches one or two seminars),
administers the Certificate in Trans-Atlantic Studies program, and
organizes outreach events ranging from a summer program for secondary
school teachers to a fall workshop for Washington state legislators.
The EUC has vastly enhanced the resources available for international
relations, comparative politics, and comparative public policy specialists
with an interest in European affairs. Visit
the EUC website.
Affiliated Faculty
http://www.polisci.washington.edu/uwisc.htm
Academic Sponsors
Affiliated Faculty
The University of Washington's Institute for
the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality (WISER)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/index.shtml
The University of Washington's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity,
Race and Sexuality (WISER), established in 2006 and directed by
Professor Gary M. Segura, is an interdisciplinary research center
dedicated to bringing the tools of contemporary social science inquiry
to the careful examination of issues of social, economic, and political
exclusion and disadvantage of marginalized minority populations
in the United States, and their potential solutions. The principle
goals of WISER are to establish the University of Washington as
a recognized center of excellence for minority-related research
and graduate training in the social sciences, by:
- Creating an institute that facilitates minority focused research
through grant-seeking, intellectual exchange, and on-campus activities;
- Raising the profile on-campus of questions and issues related
to minority life in the United States;
- Creating connections to the wider community;
- Providing an enlarging research community to faculty and graduate
students working on questions of disadvantage; and
- Assisting the College and Departments in attracting and retaining
faculty and graduate students from diverse backgrounds or whose
work addresses questions in inequality or difference.
Affiliated Faculty
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