Humanities & Society Archives

Policing Patients

Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

Faced with a drug crisis that has claimed more than a million lives, legislatures, courts and policymakers have enlisted the help of technology in the hopes of curtailing prescriptions and preventing deaths. This book reveals how “Trojan horse” technology embeds the logics of surveillance in the practice of medicine.

Politics

Stolen Representation

Black Disfranchisement and State Legislative Politics in the American South

In the decades after Reconstruction, African Americans were systematically removed from the electorate in the American South using tools such as poll taxes and literacy tests. “Stolen Representation” draws on significant amounts of new historical data to explore how these tools of Black disfranchisement shaped state legislative politics.

Disparity

Separating fact from fiction in housing affordability and corporate investors

The rise of institutional investors in the housing market is a symptom, rather than the cause, of an extremely tight housing market and the overall housing affordability crisis, according to Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences at WashU.

St. Louis Region

Building math minds in pre‑K: Hazelwood and WashU make numbers count

Pre-K isn’t just for story time — it’s also when children learn important math concepts. The WashU Institute for School Partnership is partnering with the Hazelwood School District to boost kindergarten readiness through coaching, lesson planning and professional development to meet the needs of pre-K educators.

Art & Design

AI and Creativity

What does AI mean for the future of human creativity? Janet Rafner of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, an expert in hybrid intelligence and human–AI co-creativity, joins Sandro Galea to discuss AI’s role in the creative space.

Janet Rafner

Economy

Trade, Tariffs, and Globalization

What role do tariffs play in today’s global economy and how could tariffs shape the future of international trade? The University of Chicago’s Robert Gulotty, an expert in international relations and political economy, joins WashU’s Sandro Galea to discuss how systems of trade could contribute to global cooperation in the 21st century.

Robert Gulotty

Politics

Immigration in a Changing World

In the hotly contested debate surrounding U.S. immigration policy, what does it take to find common ground? Alexander Kustov, an expert in public opinion and democratic governance and a professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, joins host Sandro Galea to discuss the factors driving this debate.

Alexander Kustov