“If you want safe communities, you need strong girls”
In 2001, Heather Cameron was teaching in Berlin when she had a novel idea that has transformed lives and communities around the world: start a female boxing club.
Rethinking Holocaust literature: contexts, canons, circulations
A new multi-year collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds and Washington University seeks to reconsider the history of and emerging developments in Holocaust literature at an acute moment in history.
Making Motherhood Work
Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded to Walke
Anika Walke, the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a senior fellowship in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Program.
Parvulescu wins René Wellek Prize
Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 René Wellek Prize for best monograph from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Parvulescu shares the award with sociologist Manuela Boatcă, head of school in the Global Studies […]
Help for the helpers: CSD builds bridges in Bulgaria
As Bulgarian social workers assist thousands of Ukrainian refugees, CSD’s Aytakin Huseynli is leading a group that offers global support. Aytakin Huseynli knows about living through war. Growing up in Baku, Azerbaijan, she was a child when the Soviet Union collapsed, protesters demanded Azerbaijan’s independence, and the Soviets invaded. She remembers people hiding in basements, her […]
Hu, Norwitz selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars
Washington University in St. Louis seniors Sabrina Hu and Sam Norwitz are among the 23 U.S. students who have been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Keys to saving democracy
Russia expert Fiona Hill visited WashU and shared, through the lens of her own life, how education and opportunity are two important ways by which the world can save democracy.
WashU’s French connection
Lionel Cuillé is a teaching professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the director of the French Connexions Cultural Center.
Two WashU faculty appointed special advisers to International Criminal Court
Washington University faculty members are among the 17 esteemed experts appointed as Special Advisors to new Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan, of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the School of Law, will […]