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The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding Health Care
The rise of crowdfunding on sites like GoFundMe reflects—and potentially worsens—inequities already at play in US health care, according to new research.
View ArticleKhullar Wins Asian Studies Award for Book on Indian Art and Identity
Sonal Khullar (Art History) was recently awarded the Cohn Prize for a first book in South Asian Studies for her book Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India,...
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Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’
A uniquely collaborative research team unpacks a widely used but rarely scrutinized term in global health.
View ArticleGlobal Indigeneities Institute Leads to NSF and Post-Doc Fellowships
Two participants in last year’s Summer Institute in Global Indigeneities (SIGI) have landed prestigious fellowships that they credit, in part, to the inaugural institute at the UW.
View ArticleBachman Creates Suzzallo Library Exhibit on ‘Bollywood and Bolsheviks’
Doctoral student Jessica Bachman (History) has created a new exhibit based on her work as a Mellon Summer Fellow for Public Projects in the Humanities.
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Reiko Yamanaka Visits Simpson Center as Visiting Scholar
Reiko Yamanaka, Professor and Director of the Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University in Tokyo, joins the Simpson Center as a visiting scholar in April and May 2017. Reiko is an accomplished...
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Michelle Habell-Pallán Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public
The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that create new forms of scholarship.
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Haicheng Wang Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship to Study Chinese Bells
Haicheng Wang (Art History) has received a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study Chinese bells found at archaeological sites and how ancient Chinese musical culture...
View ArticleJesse Oak Taylor Wins Ecocriticism Book Prize
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment praises his book The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.
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Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities
Liina-Ly Roos, a doctoral student in Scandinavian Studies, has received the Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities for her teaching and her research in Estonian literature and film, Baltic cinema, and...
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In Defense of the Search Engine
Google isn’t making us stupid, it’s opening a gold mine for scholars with the right tools, Daniel Shore argues.
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Announcing Funding Awards for 2017-18
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces its funding awards for the upcoming year.
View ArticleRegina Yung Lee Creates Publicly Engaged Course on Feminist New Media Studies
Regina Yung Lee (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has developed a new graduate seminar based on her work as a 2017 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities.
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James Tweedie Awarded by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
James Tweedie (Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media) has been named one of two Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for 2017. He receives a $25,000 grant to...
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Simpson Center Welcomes New Staff
We are delighted to introduce Monica Cohn, Administrator, and Annie Dwyer, Assistant Program Director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics.
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Robin D.G. Kelley on Racial Capitalism Nov. 7
The preeminent US historian opens a yearlong series on the complex intersections of race and capitalism.
View ArticlePriti Ramamurthy Awarded Fulbright to Study Informal Economies in India
Priti Ramamurthy (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has received a Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award to conduct research in India for nine months
View ArticleLeigh Mercer Creates Seminar on Hispanic Film and Organizing Film Festivals
The new course arises from Leigh’s conviction that organizing film festivals can be a valuable form of cultural production.
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A Journey to the Center of the Anthropocene
Scholars track hidden stories at the birthplace of a geologic era.
View ArticleFIELD Journal Highlights Socially Engaged Art in Japan
The art-criticism journal draws extensively on Socially Engaged Art in Japan, a 2015 conference supported by the Simpson Center and organized by Justin Jesty (Asian Languages & Literatures).
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