‘American Sabor’ Bilingual Book Chronicles Latinos and Latinas in US Popular...
A long-running exploration of the contributions of Latinas and Latinos to US pop music has taken the form of a new bilingual book from the University of Washington Press.
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Passionate Performances in Multilingual Classrooms
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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Christian Novetzke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Study Devotionalism and...
Christian Lee Novetzke (Jackson School of International Studies) has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for his work on religion, history, and public ethics in India. He will use his time as a...
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Sasha Su-Ling Welland Tracks Art in ‘Experimental Beijing’ through New Book...
Sasha Su-Ling Welland (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has a new book with Duke University Press about experimental art in Beijing and how official attitudes toward such art shifted as China...
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Charles W. Mills on Liberalism and Racial Justice May 16
The philosopher speaks as part of a year-long exploration of race and capitalism.
View ArticleGuided Pathways: A Closer look at the Data
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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Lily Shapiro Receives Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Medical Anthropology...
Lily Shapiro, a PhD candidate in anthropology, has received the Spring 2018 Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. In selecting Shapiro for...
View ArticleWelcome to Visiting Scholar Anca Cristofovici
Cristofovici, an accomplished scholar and novelist, will study the books in the Special Collection of UW Libraries for a project on artists’ books and independent publishers in the Pacific Northwest.
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Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia
Anthropologist Danny Hoffman photographs urban forms to show how our lives are shaped by the spaces we inhabit.
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‘Medicine Anthropology Theory’ Publishes UW Scholars on Global-Health...
The open-access web journal Medicine Anthropology Theory has published a themed issue led by University of Washington faculty examining the notion of “partnership” as it’s used in global health and...
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Students Organize Spanish Film Festival for High School
UW graduate students curate films for Seattle’s most diverse high school, discovering a new way to bring their scholarship to public audiences.
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Announcing Funding Awards for 2018-19
We are delighted to announce our full funding awards for the 2018-19 academic year. The Simpson Center Executive Board received an exceptional number of strong proposals this spring from University of...
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Sam Sumpter Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities
Sam Sumpter, a doctoral candidate in Philosophy, has received the Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities for dissertation research into microaggressions and trans identity. Sumpter will join the Society...
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Ethnography of a Surveillance State
Anthropologist Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.
View ArticleDigital Object Creation as Scholarly Process: A Collective Blog Post
This post features UW doctoral students reflecting on their experiences in a publicly-engaged graduate seminar that was developed with the support of Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New...
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Jordanna Bailkin Unpacks the ‘Unsettled’ History of British Refugee Camps in...
Jordanna Bailkin (History) has a new book with Oxford University Press delving into the history of refugee camps in 20th century Britain. While we rarely think of Britain as a “land of camps,” as...
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Gillian Harkins Creates Seminar on Public Scholarship as Means and Ends
Gillian Harkins (English) has developed a new graduate seminar based on her work as a 2016 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities. The fellowship, part of the Simpson Center’s...
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Unearthing Seattle’s Deeper Histories through Art and Humanities
Students expose layers hidden beneath the city’s wealth through summer research institute.
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Minda Martin Film ‘Ramps to Nowhere’ Premieres at Northwest Film Forum
Minda Martin (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) has completed a documentary film about the civic efforts that protected Seattle neighborhoods from major highway proposals in the 1960s.
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Jordanna Bailkin on Migrants and Refugees in British History Dec. 6
The UW historian delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities at 7 pm on Thursday, December 6.
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