The 2026 SIAH application will open on January 5, 2026.
Application deadline: March 2, 2026 at 11:59p.m.
Caley Cook
Caley Cook is a journalist, filmmaker and multimedia producer with feature and investigative bylines in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, CBS Sports and others. She is a Teaching Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication where she teaches courses on mass media law, community journalism, sports reporting, and video storytelling. She received the 2013 Nevada Press Association Outstanding Journalist of the Year award, was a runner-up for the 2017 Boston Globe Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship, was awarded a 2011 Demmler Award for journalism education innovation, and received a 2001 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists Award for her coverage of Sept. 11. Her bylines vary across topics, including sports, courts, music and culture. She served as a visiting assistant professor of journalism at Allegheny College and as an instructor at University of San Diego, Metro State College Denver and University of Colorado Boulder before coming to UW. She has contributed to multiple books and is a regular speaker at media and journalism conferences across the country.
Ron Krabill
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Professor
Ron Krabill is a cultural and media studies scholar who has published broadly in the fields of critical sport studies, media and politics, African Studies, human rights, and international education. His critical scholarship on the politics of soccer has appeared in Social Text, Africa is a Country, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere, and he has led study abroad programs on the same theme to South Africa, Spain, and Rwanda. He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell and the inaugural Director of the Global Sport Lab in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. He is the co-founder of the UWB Global Scholars Program and a founding member of the Global Reciprocity Network. Krabill is the author of Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid (2010) and the co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice (2019). He has been awarded the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award (2006) and the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award for Teams (2023).
Yasir Zaidan
International Studies, Ph.D. Candidate
Yasir Zaidan is an international relations scholar trained in International Studies at the University of Washington. His work bridges security studies, regional politics, and political economy, with a particular focus on their intersections across the Red Sea region and the Horn of Africa. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and holds instructional appointments at the University of Washington, Portland State University, and Seattle University. Zaidan’s research examines the expanding political, economic, and security influence of Middle Eastern states in the Horn of Africa, with particular attention to port development, maritime governance, and regional power competition. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Small Wars & Insurgency, and World Politics Review. His academic research is informed by extensive professional experience in both East Africa and the Middle East. Prior to his doctoral studies, Zaidan served as a research assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Khartoum.