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A Story of Liberation Preserved in LGBTQ History Project
New website chronicles activists who made Seattle a national pioneer for gay rights.
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Tihanyi and Athreya’s Math-Art Collaboration Featured by Geekwire and Linda...
The tech news site Geekwire recently published a story about the collaborative work of Jayadev Athreya (Mathematics) and Timea Tihanyi (Art), a project supported by the Simpson Center studio grant...
View ArticleNash Receives $50,000 NEH Grant for Environmental History of American...
Linda Nash (History) has received a $50,400 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research into how Americans’ approach to postwar development was shaped by the nation’s abundant...
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Honey Authors Folk-Troubadour Book and Collaborates on Film
Michael Honey (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma) has partnered with cinematographer and filmmaker Errol Webber to create a documentary about the life of Methodist minister and civil...
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Inside Higher Ed Features Arteaga on Doctoral Partnerships at Two-Year Colleges
Rachel Arteaga has written an article for Inside Higher Ed about new partnerships between two-year colleges and doctoral programs in the humanities.
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Announcing First Round of Funding Awards for 2017-18
The Simpson Center Executive Board has made its first round of funding awards for 2017-18 after receiving many strong proposals from UW faculty, graduate students, and staff. Congratulations to our...
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Call for Nominations: Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities invites nominations of University of Washington faculty members for the Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public. The award honors Barclay...
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Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer...
An interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students examine the tangle of capitalism and race since the origins of European colonialism.
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Atkins Authors First English Book on Medieval Japanese Poet Teika
Paul Atkins (Asian Languages & Literature) has a new book with the University of Hawaiʻi Press about the influential Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241). The book, Teika: The Life and Works...
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From Chicana Punk Rock, Habell-Pallán Forges a Vision for Public Scholarship
The new director of the Certificate in Public Scholarship draws on the cultural ferment among musicians, scholars, and communities.
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New Cherniavsky Book “Neocitizenship” Examines “Political Culture after...
Eva Cherniavsky (English) has a new book about the changing meaning of citizenship in an era of US oligarchy, Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy (NYU Press, 2017).
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Tim Brown Awarded Humanities Without Walls Fellowship
Tim Brown (Philosophy) has received a prestigious Humanities Without Walls fellowship to attend a three-week institute in Chicago this summer as one of 30 doctoral students selected nationwide.
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Alondra Nelson on DNA, Race, and Reparations - March 8
The author of celebrated books on race, genetics, history, and medicine delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 8.
View ArticleAdam Warren Receives ACLS Fellowship for History of the Cesarean Operation...
Adam Warren (History) was awarded a collaborative research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his collaborative research on Postmortem Cesarean Operations and the Spread of...
View ArticleChapbook Recaps Translational Poetics Symposium
Essay Press has published a new chapbook based on a January 2016 symposium on translational poetics organized by Affect & Audience in the Digital Age.
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MLQ Issue Highlights New and Digital Approaches to Literary History
A recent issue of Modern Language Quarterly draws exclusively from Scale and Value: New and Digital Approaches to Literary History, a May 2015 conference co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the...
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Erzen and Vaught Books Expose New Trends in American Prison System
Two scholars with connections to the Simpson Center have new books about overlooked trends within the contemporary American prison system.
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Sunardi Wins Award for Book on Gender and Tradition in Javanese Dance
Christina Sunardi (Ethnomusicology, School of Music) recently received the Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and...
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Lorraine Daston on Algorithms Before Computers - April 19
Celebrated historian of science Lorraine Daston delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture at 7 pm, Wednesday, April 19 in Kane Hall 210. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lobbying for the Humanities in Washington, DC
The Simpson Center’s Andy Nestingen and Jon Hiskes spoke with Washington state’s Congressional offices about the life-changing power of humanities and language funding.
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