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Central Bank Independence: Implications in a Global Macroeconomic Environment
(2026) Langley, Frederick Leonard; Baird, Katie
This paper analyzes the role of central bank independence as a monetary policy tool, within a global framework. I begin with a historical analysis of how CBI emerged and developed over the 20th century, tracing the role of geopolitical forces and theoretical developments in shaping this institutional idea. I then consider heterodox opinions on CBI, which criticize it's foundational lack of democratic legitimacy, question its empirical efficacy, or otherwise complicate the simplistic theoretical picture. Finally, the bulk of the paper constitutes a mathematical game-theoretic analysis of monetary policy in a two-country model (U.S. - China). I subject the model to a shock representing loss of Federal Reserve independence, and interpret the results. I find that loss of Fed independence creates economic disturbances in both of the model's countries, and that this disturbance begins the moment that loss of independence is factored into economic expectations. An additional finding is that international coordination effectively contains most of the economic ill effects, by subjecting the Federal reserve to a new constraint and resolving the game-theoretic conflict between U.S. and China monetary policymakers.
The Power of Water: Countering Indigenous Erasure With John McCoy (lulilaš) Since Time Immemorial Curriculum
(2026) Woolley, Annette Michelle; Hardison-Stevens, Dawn, PhD; Montgomery, Michelle, MA, MPP, PhD; Bill, Denise, EdD
This study examined barriers that exist in teaching and upholding the John McCoy (lulilaš) Since Time Immemorial (JMLSTI) Curriculum in Washington State. The intent of this study is to counter Indigenous erasure in educational spaces and institutions. This work listened to teachers’ voices to learn what can be done to increase the use of JMLSTI in a respectful way. This research utilized a mixed-methods approach including interviews, surveys, and training. Using a critical lens and thematic perspective of water, a reflection on prior progress and current actions to increase the use of JMLSTI has been completed.
Weaving The Sacred: Stories of Healing and Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Pathway to Indigenous Wellness
(2026) Williams, Angel R.; Montgomery, Michelle, PhD; Blanchard, Paulette, PhD; Littletree, Sandy, PhD
This study examines how Indigenous people perceive and practice wellness and healing through storytelling, relationships, and connection to land. Rooted in Indigenous research methodologies and using the Cedar Rose as a framework, it emphasizes lived experiences and survivance while rejecting deficit-based trauma narratives. By employing conversational interview techniques and considering the researcher’s positionality, the study treats stories as valuable data rather than as extractable material. The research advocates for decolonizing approaches in research, education, and wellness that honor Indigenous knowledge systems and emphasize relational accountability and self-determination.
Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekept: Pacific Northwest Women Bootleggers and Moonshiners During Prohibition, 1916-1933.
(2025-03-20) Cobaugh, Lorraine T.; Hanneman, Mary
During the Prohibition era (1916–1933), women in the Pacific Northwest played a significant yet understudied role in the illegal alcohol trade. Contrary to the prevailing narrative that bootlegging, rum running, and moonshining were predominantly male enterprises, women actively participated in manufacturing, transporting, and selling illicit liquor. Contemporary newspapers, such as a 1918 article in the Tacoma Daily Ledger, highlight how women moonshiners were not only common but also notoriously difficult to trace. Drawing from period newspaper reports and legal records, this paper examines how women leveraged societal expectations, employed clever tactics, and subverted gender norms to carve out space in the criminal economy of the era. By uncovering these women's contributions, this research challenges conventional understandings of gender roles during Prohibition and brings to light the overlooked impact of female participants in the Pacific Northwest's illicit alcohol networks.
50th General Hospital - A WWII Unit
(2025-03-19) Lewis, Rachel; Hanneman, Mary
The 50th General Hospital, an Army Reserve unit from Fort Lawton, Seattle, played a crucial role in providing medical care to US and Allied forces during World War II in the European Theatre. This paper examines not only the hospital’s operations — focusing on its medical treatments, training, and logistics — but also the experiences of its medical personnel and patients. Using archival sources, including military reports, personal accounts, and medical records, this study reconstructs the unit’s daily functions and the challenges faced by nurses, officers, and enlisted personnel working under wartime conditions. Their ability to maintain morale and deliver high-quality care across four operational locations proved essential to the hospital’s success. The professionalism and superior performance of its staff contributed to improvements in Army medical organization and treatment protocols. By highlighting the hospital’s medical advancements, operational achievements, and the personal experiences of those involved, this research provides a deeper understanding of the 50th General Hospital’s impact on wartime medicine and the lives of the soldiers they treated, the medical personnel who cared for them, and the communities they influenced.
Still growing: The continuing evolution of community college baccalaureate degrees in the United States
(2026-05-20) Meza, Elizabeth; Vo, Davis
This report describes the continuing growth and evolution of community college bachelor's degrees or community college baccalaureate degrees in the United States focusing on states, institutions, programs, and graduates.
Health in a Changing Environment: Impacts and Adaptation in the WWAMI Region
(2026-05-15) McCarthy, Clare; Reed, Anna; Meyers, Abigail; Conley, Genevieve; Patel, Resham; Isaksen, Tania Busch
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of climate-sensitive hazards, such as wildfire smoke and extreme heat. Climate-sensitive hazards pose an urgent threat to population health and require a coordinated response from the public health and healthcare systems. The University of Washington REACH Center’s Community EngagementCore (CEC) hosted a virtual symposium on July 30, 2025, to discuss climate-sensitive hazards, disproportionately impacted populations, risk reduction strategies, facilitators and barriers of those strategies, and next steps. The Health in a Changing Environment symposium convened 29 clinical practitioners, public health practitioners, and researchers from across five Western US states.
Talent Inside the Diamond: A Fluid, Trifaceted Framework for Managing Employees in Knowledge-Intensive Workplaces
(2026) Balakrishnan, P.V. (Sundar)
The paper develops a conceptual framework for managing knowledge-intensive employees through three interdependent dimensions: expertise, motivation, and ethical congruence. Its central argument is that expertise and motivation alone are not sufficient for sustainable performance; they must be embedded within an ethical infrastructure that reduces ethical drift, strengthens trust, and supports developmental movement across employee profiles. The paper offers both theoretical propositions and practical guidance for leaders managing talent portfolios in technology-driven and knowledge-intensive organizations.
Where the Roots Remember: Reclaiming Addiction Recovery, Indigenous Epistemology and Storywork: A Personal Journey into Land Memory through Stories, and Visual Art Narratives as a Pathway of Healing
(2026) Sireech, Valentina R.; Montgomery, Michelle, MA, MPP, PhD; Hardison-Stevens, Dawn, PhD; Pihama, Leonie
This dissertation examines addiction and healing within Indigenous communities through the lens of Indigenous Storywork. It draws on land-based knowledge and visual art narratives as methodological and theoretical approaches, with a particular focus on storytelling as a means of reclaiming narratives about addiction. Grounded in lived experience, family memory, and relational accountability, the study conceptualizes addiction as a collective and historically situated condition shaped by colonial violence, intergenerational trauma, and disruptions to kinship, culture, and belonging. This research resists dominant deficit-oriented frameworks by centering Indigenous stories as sources of knowledge, authority, and meaning. Personal narratives are positioned alongside stories shared by Indigenous family members and community participants, who discuss themes of substance use, recovery, loss, and survival. Indigenous Storywork guides both the methodology and analysis, affirming storytelling as a powerful act of narrative reclamation that restores voice, dignity, and relational responsibility. Visual art practices, including beadwork, photography, and digital collage, extend storytelling beyond written language, engaging embodied and affective ways of knowing. This study advances an Indigenous epistemology-grounded approach to addiction research, counseling practices, and educational leadership, demonstrating how storytelling supports healing by reshaping meaning, restoring relationships, and affirming Indigenous ways of knowing as a pathway to healing.
(Re)Creation Stories: (Re)Claiming Indigenous Identity through Art, Story, and Place
(2026) Barry, Sonia; Montgomery, Michelle, MA, MPP, PhD; Hardison-Stevens, Dawn, PhD; Bill, Denise, EdD
This inquiry explores how Indigenous storytelling, art, and land-based knowledge support the (re)creation and (re)claiming of Indigenous identity through relational, arts-based research. Grounded in Unangax̂ and Alutiiq worldviews, it draws on Indigenous methodologies, including storywork, autoethnography, and arts-based inquiry, and is rooted in the understanding that research is relational and accountable to communities and knowledge holders. Drawing on relational conversations and shared practices with Indigenous artists, educators, and knowledge holders, this work follows the movement of Aalux̂, a great wave, as a living framework for how knowledge is gathered, carried, and returned. Through this framework, it traces how teachings move through Land, story, language, and the work of our hands, remaining connected to people and place. The inquiry reveals that Indigenous knowledge continues through everyday acts of making, teaching, and gathering. These practices show how language, story, and artistic practice support the (re)creation of identity and intergenerational continuity. They reflect resurgence as a lived and ongoing presence within Indigenous communities, sustained across generations. Relational responsibility remains central, emphasizing that knowledge is held collectively with care. Generative refusal honors relational boundaries, including moments where stories are intentionally held. Some knowledge remains within relationship, guided by those who carry it. This work returns to the question of what it means to carry these teachings forward and offers implications for K–12 educational spaces and community-based learning by calling for practices grounded in relationship, guided by knowledge holders, and connected to Land, language, and community. Indigenous knowledge systems continue to live through relationships, and the responsibility of research is to carry these teachings forward in a good way.