Destructive Imagination

Destructive Imagination

Male Fantasies and the Emotional Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Russian soldiers did not go to war with only guns and orders—they went with fantasies that made killing feel meaningful. Drawing on diaries, social media posts, memoirs, poems, and battlefield songs, Maria Kurbak reconstructs the war from below. She shows how Russian combatants turn old wounds—NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, the collapse of the USSR, personal […]
Kigali

Kigali

A New City for the End of the World

A searing critique of capitalist solutions to climate change, “Kigali” is an ethnography of a city that is being destroyed so that it can be rebuilt for the end of the world.
Joe receives research honor

Joe receives research honor

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, received an honorable mention for the 2026 Excellence in Research Award from the Society for Social Work and Research. 
Faith leaders on the front lines

Faith leaders on the front lines

Over the last few decades, Christianity in America has become synonymous with conservative causes. But it wasn’t always that way. As faith leaders join protesters in the Twin Cities, they’re showing the next generation of American young people that there are multiple ways to be a Christian, according to Ryan Burge, an expert in religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
Too Precious to Lose

Too Precious to Lose

A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility

Jason Green, AB ’03, was raised on fellowship — literally. Fellowship Lane served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher’s kid, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to public service. After working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the young attorney spent four and a half […]
‘Looking Back Toward the Future’

‘Looking Back Toward the Future’

Celebrated editor, publisher and art collector Larry Warsh recently gifted 56 works of Chinese photography to the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. This spring, the museum will publicly display 43 of those works, all made between 1993 and 2006, for the first time in “Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China.”
Understanding Child Welfare

Understanding Child Welfare

Co-authored by eminent scholars in the field, this book surveys the processes and outcomes of child welfare services in the US, drawing global parallels in order to capture the challenges, tensions, and opportunities facing child welfare services.
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