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MPA and EMPA | Admissions Priority Deadline
The priority admissions deadline is here! Be sure to submit your application for admissions and fellowship opportunities. If you have any questions, please stop by our drop-ins, send us an email at evansadm@uw.edu, or schedule a 1:1 meeting with our Admissions Team. We wish you best of luck on your application!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: evanshelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Prospective MPA and prospective EMPA Students.
Thursday, January 15, 2026.
Evans Admissions Team | Drop-In Advising
Looking to learn more about our programs at the Evans? Join the Admissions Team for a weekly virtual Drop-In Advising session each week leading up to our priority January 15th deadline! We hope you can join us for a virtual coffee chat to best support you through the admissions journey. We hope to "see" you there!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/94833363448. Accessibility Contact: evansadm@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: MPA and EMPA prospective students.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
CSDE Seminar - Panel on Gun Violence - Avanti Adhia & Ali Rowhani-Rahbar
Avanti Adhia, Nursing, University of Washington & Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Epidemiology, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z3k1yI4vRYqCUNtDz39KGA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Seminar - School-Based Support for Children's Mental Health: Evidence from North Carolina - Sarah Komisarow
In this paper I estimate the impact of specialized instructional support personnel—school nurses and social workers—on student outcomes using quasi-experimental variation from North Carolina’s Child and Family Support Teams (CFST) program. The CFST program created two sources of natural variation: directly treated schools received substantial state-funded staffing increases in the form of highly trained two-person teams composed of a school nurse and a school social worker. At the same time, other schools in the same districts experienced more modest staffing increases indirectly through reallocations of existing personnel and district-led compensatory equalization. Using event-study and difference-in-differences designs, I show that expanded access to support personnel reduced student absences and chronic absenteeism. In directly treated schools, annual absences decreased by 0.4 days (6%) and chronic absenteeism declined by 0.9 percentage points (12%) among high-risk students. In indirectly treated schools,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BHFmn9YjS3i-86QGyrFevQ#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 23, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Olympia Area Alumni & Friends Luncheon
Join the Evans School in Olympia for a special luncheon bringing together alumni, friends, and community partners who share a passion for public service and civic leadership.
Hear from Dean Jodi Sandfort about the Evans School’s ongoing work to strengthen democracy, and enjoy a conversation between Dean Sandfort and MPA student Nathan Loutsis highlighting his research with state legislators on the topic of civic health. This luncheon offers a meaningful opportunity to reconnect, learn, and celebrate the Evans School’s impact in shaping the future of public leadership.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: evansadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Alumni and Friends.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. CSDE Seminar - Aging with Limited Kin: Childlessness and Care Arrangements in Singapore and Thailand - Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
Rapid demographic transitions and changing family structures are increasing the number of adults aging with limited close kin. Drawing on mixed-methods evidence from Thailand and Singapore, this talk examines how childlessness and other forms of constrained kin availability shape long-term care and advance care planning in later life. Findings reveal substantial heterogeneity among childless older adults, pronounced gender differences in care vulnerabilities and planning behaviors, and persistent tensions between familistic norms and the lived realities of kin limitation. Moving beyond deficit-based framings, the presentation highlights adaptive strategies through which older adults reconfigure care and planning, and argues for reimagining kin, care, and policy in low-fertility, family-oriented societies.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bmg-69zfTQqHm_cVc0FBag#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Seminar - Occupations, Careers, and Opportunity: A Structural Approach to Studying Economic Mobility over the Life Course - Michael Shultz
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Abstract: A person’s work life is a major feature of the middle of the life course. A sociological approach focuses on how wages and other job rewards are tied to workers obtaining discrete positions. Consequently, the movement of workers between jobs and the work contexts of those jobs are primary explanations for inequality over the life course. The large number of possible transitions between jobs presents theoretical and methodological challenges. In this talk, I draw on several of my recent and ongoing research projects that use the 500 Census occupations to identify structural positions in the labor market and analyze occupational and wage mobility over the life course. Occupations are a meso-level unit of analysis that facilitates studying institutional job ladders, career continuity/discontinuity across job transitions, and changes in the availability and access to jobs associated with opportunity.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W-WridIXR2KQEoKKcqiHpA#/. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Resisting Authoritarianism Here and Abroad: Blue City Blues with Anne Applebaum
Join Blue City Blues for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, as she addresses the escalating global threats to democratic institutions and explores pragmatic strategies to counter the rise of authoritarianism. Drawing on her extensive research, Applebaum will discuss findings from her critically acclaimed works, including Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism and her latest book, Autocracy, Inc. offering insight into how free societies can prevent the worst-case scenarios now unfolding across the world. The event will be in-person and livestreamed. Sliding scale $10 - $35.
Anne Applebaum is a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic, and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her history books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent books…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: access@townhallseattle.org. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit townhallseattle.org. CSDE Seminar - The Hidden Private Safety Net: Shared Households and Older Adults' Housing Costs - Kristin Perkins
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Speaker: Kristin Perkins, Sociology, Georgetown University
Abstract: Where U.S. public supports fall short of need, individuals often turn to the private safety net – instrumental support from family and friends. Although impacts of the public safety net are well-documented, less research considers how the private safety net shapes patterns of hardship. Focusing on the case of older adults’ shared households, this study demonstrates how the provision and receipt of private safety net support shapes housing costs and, ultimately, our understanding of the contours of the housing affordability crisis. Using Survey of Income and Program Participation data, we find that 15% of older adults are hosts, who share their home with others, and 6% are guests, who live in someone else’s home. Counterfactual estimates reveal that guests pay $713 less a month on housing than they would in nonshared housing, and hosts pay $53 more.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8uTJ8X5SRneM3KLnpKYuPA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Seminar - Gendered Dissent and Social Threat: Attitudes Towards Protest Repression in Colombia - Gabriella Levy
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Speaker: Kristin Perkins, Sociology, Georgetown University
Speaker: Gabriella Levy, Political Science, University of Washington
Abstract: What determines support for police restraint in times of social protest? Previous research shows perceptions of protest violence increase support for repression. We argue that protests violating social norms are also seen as less deserving of restraint— even when they pose no physical threat. Focusing on gender-related protests, we test this argument using a survey experiment in Bogot´a, Colombia, which like many cities in Latin America has repeatedly experienced women-led protests in recent years. Our results show that protests for LGBTQ+ rights and expanded abortion access reduce support for restraint compared to demands that are less threatening to the social order, even though perceptions of violence do not vary by protest goals. Non-violent protest tactics that violate tradi…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6NqV1fREQ5eqn554ckv0Ug#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Seminar - The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times - Robert Crosnoe
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Speaker: Kristin Perkins, Sociology, Georgetown University
Speaker: Gabriella Levy, Political Science, University of Washington
Speaker: Robert Crosnoe, Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of a new book, The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times, co-authored with Shannon Cavanagh and published in 2025 by Russell Sage. It tackles some key questions of interests to population scientists, developmental scientists, and the public, including: Is the lengthening span of time that young people in the U.S. take to transition into adult roles creating a new generation of “adultolescents”? How has the decades-long reshaping of this critical period of life been complicated by specific historical crises? The answers to these questions come from What does this interplay between long-term trends and short-term shocks mean for the cycle of inequality across Ameri…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ikj70nK6RkCLLMCjIwsOkA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Seminar - Infrastructures of Resettlement: How Bureaucratic Legacies Shaped Racial Disparities in Post-Cold War Refugee Selection - Jake Watson
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Speaker: Kristin Perkins, Sociology, Georgetown University
Speaker: Gabriella Levy, Political Science, University of Washington
Speaker: Robert Crosnoe, Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Jake Watson, Sociology, University of California San Diego
Abstract: This paper draws on migration infrastructure perspectives to theorize how states select refugees. After the Cold War, the United States shifted its refugee admissions program from a focus on anticommunism toward more humanitarian criteria, marked by greater need-based selection and distributional equity – including explicit efforts to increase African admissions. Yet the 1990s saw the US resettle roughly 300,000 Europeans and just 40,000 Africans despite comparably large displacement crises in Yugoslavia and the Horn of Africa. Why? While scholars explain such disparities through explicit racial preferences or geopolitical interests, I show t…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mqjs5IEXRDCKhsKTyOYkMw#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us.