 The school is sited at Thomson Hall | |
Other name | Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies |
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Former names | Department of Oriental Subjects (1909–1946), Far Eastern and Russian Institute (1946–1978), School of International Studies (1978–1983) |
| Established | 1909; 117 years ago (1909) |
Parent institution | University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences |
| Director | Daniel Hoffman |
| Location | ,, |
| Website | jsis |
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TheJackson School of International Studies[1] (JSIS; formallyHenry M. Jackson School of International Studies) is a department-level school within theSocial Sciences Division at theCollege of Arts and Sciences at theUniversity of Washington.[2] It specializes ininternational relations andarea studies.
The school was founded in 1909 as theDepartment of Oriental Subjects, and was renamed in 1983 to honor Washington state politicianHenry M. Jackson.
The University of Washington established theDepartment of Oriental Subjects in 1909 under the chairmanship ofHerbert Henry Gowen. The department became theSchool of International Studies in 1976. In 1983, it was renamed theHenry M. Jackson School of International Studies in honor of Washington state politicianHenry M. Jackson.[3]
As of 2016, the Jackson School was the United States' largest recipient ofUnited States Department of Education grants in support of area studies and hosted eightNational Resource Centers.[4] Its oldest center, theEast Asia Center, was established with a grant from theU.S. Department of Defense in 1959 as the Far Eastern Institute. It was followed by theMiddle East Center. Other National Resource Centers hosted by the Jackson School are theCanadian Studies Center;Center for Global Studies;Center for European Studies;Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies;South Asia Center; andCenter for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas.[5]
In 2016 the Jackson School hosted the annual meeting of theAssociation of Professional Schools of International Affairs, of which it is a founding member.[6][7]
The Jackson School offersBachelor of Arts degrees in six subjects: Asian Studies, Comparative Religion, European Studies, International Studies, Jewish Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies. It also grantsMaster of Arts degrees andDoctor of Philosophy degrees in International Studies. Since 2015 it has, additionally, offered a Master of Arts in applied International Studies geared towards "mid-career professionals".[6]
The Jackson School is a full member of theAssociation of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA).[8]
In addition to its undergraduate journal,Jackson Journal, the school also houses tworefereed journals,theJournal of Japanese Studies andtheJournal of Korean Studies.
The Sephardic Studies Digital Library Collection is a collection of digitized works concerningSephardic Jews, at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle. It was created by Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, part of the Jackson School. The collection contains over 1,500 books and other documents primarily inLadino, also Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew and French, written from the 16th century up to the mid-20th century.[9][10] "Nearly all" of the material in the library came from families in Seattle, which has the third largest Sephardic community in the United States.[11] The University of Washington says the collection has more volumes than the collections of the Library of Congress or of Harvard University. It is said to be the nation's largest or second largest collection of Ladino texts, and the largest electronic collection of such material.[10][12] Professor Devin Narr began the collection in 2012.[13]
Notable present and former faculty of the school includeDarryl N. Johnson,Jere L. Bacharach,Daniel Chirot,France Winddance Twine,T.J. Pempel,Philip N. Howard, andCharles T. Cross.
Notable graduates of JSIS' programs includeMargery Anneberg,Elizabeth J. Perry,Rob McKenna, andMatthew Bannick.[14]
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