Center for an Informed Public (CIP) Faculty Director Spiro Featured in Seattle Times
During election season, efforts to curb the spread of misinformation are especially salient – but they are always essential to the wellbeing of our democracy. At this critical moment, CSDE Affiliate Emma Spiro (UW Information School) was featured by the Seattle Times’ Save the Free Press Initiative in an article about her new role as Faculty Director of the Center for an Informed Public. Read the full story here.
*New* Research Associate (Post-doctoral), Space Health and Community (SHAC), Michigan State University Department of Public Health (10/25/24)
*New* CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Text as Data (10/22/24)
Text data has gained popularity over the last decade due to the increased data availability, the emergence of new methods, and the decreasing costs of computational resources. Based on the book Text As Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences, this workshop introduces the methods that could be used to select and represent text, conduct research discoveries, and build measurements out of text data.
We will review the principles briefly, take an overview of the methods for each section, and deep dive into one or two of the most common methods using Python. This workshop is designed to help researchers in social science and demography with no prior experience in working with text.
The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct 22, 2024, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Learn more and register here.
Research from Doll and Co-Authors Featured in Article on Endometrial Cancer Screening
New research from CSDE Affiliate Kemi Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) and co-authors finds that a common endometrial cancer screening procedure missed cases in almost 10% of Black female patients. The article, entitled “Endometrial Thickness as Diagnostic Triage for Endometrial Cancer Among Black Individuals” and recently quoted in a Health.com article, highlights the high probability of false negatives for Black women in a retrospective study and recommends tissue biopsy in an effort to reduce this rate. Read the full study here.
*New* CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Text as Data (10/22/24)
Research Professor, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan (10/25/24)
*New* Book Talk with Dr. Randa Tawil (10/22/24)
Join the Jackson School of International Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities for a book talk with Dr. Randa Tawil on Tuesday, October 22nd at 3:30pm in Communications 202. Dr. Tawil is the 2024-2025 CHCI/ACLS scholar-in-residence and will give a short talk (25 minutes) on the topic of her fellowship, Race in Transit: Mobility Between Greater Syria and U.S. Empire. It will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies and the Simpson Center. Email Caitlin Palo (cpalo@uw.edu) if you would like to attend.
RANDA TAWIL is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on race, gender, and mobility in the 20th century, particularly from SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) to and through U.S. Empire.
She is currently a Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes visiting scholar at University of Washington and a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies. Her book project, Race in Transit: Mobility Between Greater Syria and U.S. Empire, follows the itineraries of migrants from Ottoman Syria through Beirut, Marseille, the US-Mexico Borderlands, U.S.-occupied Philippines, and the United States to examine how transnational patriarchy forged the global color line, and to surface mobility’s central role in the construction of race, sexuality, and gender. She argues that gendered and classed differences in Ottoman Syria were exacerbated by the transit of migrants through multiple empires and became racialized in unstable ways as migrants encountered the emerging multi-sited U.S. empire. She shows how migrants’ experiences reveal the messy relations between local and global constructions of race and transnational patriarchy and the consequence for migrants who straddle racial categories.
Pelletier, Allard, and Colleagues Publish Insights on the Unequal Availability of Childcare
CSDE Affiliates Elizabeth Pelletier (U.S. Census Bureau) and Scott Allard (Evans School) recently collaborated on a publication in Early Childhood Research Quarterly entitled “The spatial inequality of early care and education centers” that highlights spatial variation in the provision of various forms of childcare across the US. Using a national database with multiple measures of participation and availability of childcare resources, the article shows how the provision of public and private childcare options varies in urban and rural settings, and in counties with different levels of poverty. Read the full article here.