Insights and Impact Research, trends, and action

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Q&A: Reclaiming Native History 

Professor Elizabeth Rule on legislation requiring consent from tribes to display and research Indigenous cultural items

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Big (Bad?) Data

SOC professor sniffs out how our digital footprints are being tracked—without our knowledge or consent

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The Accordion Files 

Through bellows and buttons, Washington Semester alumnus explores music, migration, and Mexico 

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Biblio File: The House of Plain Truth 

Donna Hemans draws inspiration from her native Jamaica to capture an immigrant’s struggles with belonging 

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To Survive and Thrive

Nadia Murad has found purpose in pain, advocating for an end to sexual abuse as a weapon of war

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Biblio File: We Who Grieve

SOC professor emeritus Richard Stack explores our most painful emotion 

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Learning as an Act of Resistance 

Afghan women and girls find purpose and power in a clandestine online education program spearheaded by CAS’s inaugural exile scholar

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A Gold Star

Four decades on, author Ernest Thompson still transports audiences to On Golden Pond and destinations beyond