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We are now accepting applications for our 2024 Arts & Sciences Pre-College Program staff positions.

We are now accepting applications for our 2022 Arts & Sciences Pre-College Program staff positions.

We are now accepting new course proposals for our 2022 Exploration Courses!

We are proud to announce our new international book series entitled Neighborhoods, Communities and Urban Marginality. We invite proposals on original research which examines urban marginality and social inequality in neighborhoods and communities across the globe.

Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University. As a cultural anthropologist, linguist and psychologist, he studies black language and dialects. His new book “Linguistics in the Pursuit of Law” explores how his research on black language has played out in court cases on discrimination and other issues.

Professor Rafia Zafar is collaborating with the St. Louis Metro Market "Food Bus" and other partners to develop a Community Cookbook Project with support from The Luminary's Futures-Fund grant program.

Taylor Desloge, a PhD student in history at WashU, researches a DeSoto-Carr neighborhood and how it became known as the "lung block." What he has uncovered reveals complex urban history not only about housing discrimination and redlining, but also about public health narratives that have presented African Americans as a diseased community in need of containment.

Marissa Lerner and Alexis Vidaurreta, two friends with different majors, address global climate change through local action

Dr. Carol Camp Yeakey is a co-author of the recently published Poverty and Place: Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color, a book which looks at how the St. Louis area’s social inequalities and environment affect the health of its residents.

Hayward is a contemporary political theorist whose work focuses on theories of power, democratic theory, identity theories and American urban politics.

Carol Camp Yeakey, a professor of education, of urban studies, of international and area studies, and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, has been named the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.