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An expert from the University of Washington Bothell on the culture, economics and politics of chocolate, Kristy Leissle is currently living in West Africa to conduct field work with cocoa growers for her next book on Africa’s contributions to chocolate. 

Students in Jason Lambacher’s American Government & Politics course learned about voter demographics and offered suggestions to the Snohomish County Elections Department through community-based learning projects.

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung , associate professors in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, plan to use digital mapping technology to represent where people find their happy places.

Alka Kurian, a senior lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for five months of research in Morocco for part of her upcoming book, “Transnational Fourth Wave Feminisms: A Postcolonial Backlash.”

Karam Dana, an associate professor in the school of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, analyzed how the hijab affects perceptions of Muslim women. Dana and three other scholars write in the Religion in Public blog.