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her undergraduate degree in communication and media. In 2012, she was named UW’s Female Athlete of the Year and awarded the Tom Hansen Pac-12 Conference Medal – for the student athlete who displays performance and achievement in leadership, academics and athleticism. But she didn’t stop there. “I always wanted to play professionally,” she said. After graduating from UW, Deines found herself with nowhere to play because the United States Women’s Professional Soccer League disbanded. “It was a sad

: Scandinavian Welfare States: The Immigration Challenge Who: Dr. Grete Brochmann, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Abstract: Scandinavian welfare states are historically high trust, homogeneous societies, with an equality based social security system, which takes care of their citizens from cradle to grave. These costly, rights granting systems are now challenged by large scale immigration. Universalistic welfare states like the Scandinavian grant basic rights of life support

discipline, anthropology has long recognized that the concept of race is biologically baseless, and it has worked to help people better understand the social construction of race. In the words of American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, “American notions of race are the product of racism, not the other way around” (2014).1  Anthropologists have also demonstrated how racism is embedded in institutions and structures in the United States and have highlighted the ways in which race impacts people’s