About the chapter
Washington SSN brings together scholars from multiple locations in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in Washington state. Members include leading scholars of criminal justice, economic and racial inequality, health care, political history, urban development, tax policy, and more.
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Latest Contributions
Lessons for Washington from a Carbon-Tax Autopsy
SSN Commentary, Crosscut,
Even Blue-Chip Companies Fail. Here's How to Save Their Workers, and Towns, When They Do.
SSN Commentary, The Washington Post,
The Freddie Mercury Story that Goes Untold in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
SSN Commentary, The Conversation,
Why Incarcerated People Hold the Keys to Prison Reform
SSN Key Findings Brief,
Latest in the News
Margaret O'Mara quoted on sanctions against Big Tech firms in Ian Sherr, "Facebook Should be Punished, not Broken Up " MSN Money, May 14, 2019.
Margaret O'Mara's research on the importance of historians discussed in , "Why We Need History Majors to Understand our Future," Crosscut, April 22, 2019.
"Prisons and Other Maladies of the Racist State: Reading 'Blood in My Eye' in the Era of Mass Incarceration," Dan Berger, Social Science Research Council, July 11, 2017.
"Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th," Dan Berger, Black Perspectives, October 22, 2016.
"When White Supremacists Strike, Police Don't Always Strike Back," Dan Berger, The Washington Post, August 18, 2017.