College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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| WWU Professor Edward Vajda co-authors new Yeniseian dictionary | 2022-07-29 | ||
| A Malian Writer Finds a Postmortem Revival: How a French literary event in 2021 brought author Yambo Ouologuem back to life | In November 2021, a major event occurred in the French literary world: A 31-year-old Senegalese writer, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, won the country’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel “La plus secrète mémoire des hommes” (“The Most Secret Memory of Men”). It was the… |
2022-07-27 | |
| Meet the 2022 Outstanding Graduates from the CHSS Social Sciences Division | 2022-07-15 | ||
| Meet the 2022 Outstanding Graduates from the CHSS Humanities Division | 2022-07-15 | ||
| A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation | It was the evening before the Fourth of July in the last year of his tumultuous presidency, and I sat in front of my television transfixed and horrified as Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore, ostensibly a celebration of American independence but in fact a call for resistance.… |
2022-07-13 | |
| Actually, putting your hands on your knees Is the best recovery position | A faster workout recovery is a good indicator of overall fitness level and is essential for improving performance, whether it’s lifting more, running faster, or building endurance. And for years, the advice has been to recover from a high-intensity workout by holding your hands above your heads… |
2022-07-11 | |
| Teena Thach knows a place | When Teena Thach first downloaded TikTok a few years ago, she, like most of us, struggled to wrap her head around it. “What’s funny is, I’ve worked in social media for so long that I felt like I understood each channel when it came to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook… |
2022-07-11 | |
| Lifelong Spokanite Jacquelyn High-Edward gets high marks from peers as she replaces retiring Judge Maryann Moreno | Jacquelyn High-Edward has spent her legal career dedicated to ensuring equal access to justice, something she’ll be tasked with on a larger scale now that she is a Spokane County Superior Court judge. High-Edward, 49, was appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to fill the vacancy left by Judge… |
2022-07-05 | |
| On the Ballot: Moving King County elections to even years | This week the King County Council voted to change how we vote in King County. Here’s a hint: they want election years to be divisible by two. King County has approved a charter amendment that would move the generally non-partisan county elections from odd-numbered years to even-… |
2022-07-01 | |
| WWU cowboy shows fellow college students the ropes | An insistent whipping and thumping echoes across the Buchanan Towers lawn at Western Washington University. The sound stalls for a moment before the swishing of a lasso picks up again. A thud follows as it catches on a roping dummy, tightening as it would around live cattle. Wearing a… |
2022-06-24 |