McCue’s ‘Timber Curtain’ Memorializes Hugo House Demolition
Frances McCue (English) has a new poetry collection written during the filming of the forthcoming documentary Where the House Was, a film project supported by the Simpson Center.
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Paul Farmer on the History and Political Economy of Ebola Feb. 7
The doctor, humanitarian, and co-founder of Partners in Health delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture on his work in global health.
View ArticleRachel Lanier Taylor Appointed by Society for History in the Federal Government
Rachel Lanier Taylor, a UW doctoral candidate in history, has been selected by the Society for History in the Federal Government in Washington, DC, for an internship generating graduate student...
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The Classroom Is a Public Forum
By Annie Dwyer“Teaching at the community college is itself an act of social justice.” Veronica Barrera-Kolb, a faculty member at Seattle Central College, made this claim during the fall 2017 convening...
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Scholarship and Public Engagement Can Be a Both/And Situation
By Rachel ArteagaWhen I was in graduate school studying American literature, a popular way to respond to questions about dense seminar texts was to say, “I think that what we are really looking at here...
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‘Africa Is a Country’ Features UW Scholars on Global-Health Partnerships
The website publishes three provocative articles arising from research on global health partnerships.
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Theatres as Classrooms and Classrooms as Theatres
By Guillaume TourniaireMy mentor, Shelley Douma (Drama, Central Seattle College), teaches her Drama 101 course in a theatre space.
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Sareeta Amrute Awarded for Ethnography of Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology) has received the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association.
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Brian Reed on Poetry and Birds March 1
The preeminent poetry scholar and UW Chair of English delivers "Sing Along: Poetry and Birds," a Katz Distinguished Lecture. Free and open to the public.
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The Unspoken Work of Navigating Higher-Ed Bureaucracies
This series features UW doctoral students reflecting on their experiences shadowing faculty at two-year colleges as part of Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, a program to develop...
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Reaching Across Educational Contexts
This series features UW doctoral students reflecting on their experiences shadowing faculty at two-year colleges as part of Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, a program to develop...
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Medical Crowdfunding Researchers Draw Widespread Media Attention
Journalists turn to UW’s Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy to understand the rise of crowdfunding campaigns for health care costs.
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Stephen Groening Creates Seminar on Public Spheres and Public Media
Stephen Groening (Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media) has developed a new graduate seminar based on his work as a 2017 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities.
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Stopping Infectious Disease Requires ‘Staff, Space, Stuff, and Systems,’ Paul...
The Partners in Health founder draws on history, anthropology, and clinical field work in a series of conversations with UW scholars about global-health inequities.
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Michael Aguirre Receives Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellowship
Michael D. Aguirre, a doctoral student in History, has received a dissertation fellowship from the Center for Engaged Scholarship, an organization of social scientists that builds connections between...
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Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano Joins University of Pennsylvania as Assistant...
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (Interdisciplinary Program in Near & Middle Eastern Studies) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Pennsylvania following...
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Under the Hood of Great Teaching
By Annie Dwyer“If I had to sum up what I do in the classroom,” said Cris Borges, History faculty member at North Seattle College, “I would simply say that I help students see under the hood of my...
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