New Collection Explores ‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew’
A new collection of original essays edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff probes the state of Hebrew language studies in contemporary America and beyond.
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Berliner and Krabill Create New Collection on Feminist Interventions in...
Lauren S. Berliner and Ron Krabill (both Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) have co-edited a new book that examines practices that integrate participatory technology with feminist...
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Why We Don’t Have Wings: Phillip Thurtle Book and Website Explore Vexing...
Phillip Thurtle (History and Comparative History of Ideas) has a new book on the role of visual grids in the history of biology, with startling implications that fan outward into the nature of desire,...
View ArticleSome Three Years Later, or, My Month in Review
By Annie DwyerCultural change in academia often happens at a glacial rate, even as the evisceration of supports for higher education seems to proceed apace. But at the outset of the fourth year of the...
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What Community Colleges Can Teach Universities About Inclusivity
By Jennifer Smith As a former community college transfer and non-traditional student, the transition to university life proved jarring. While not all students at community colleges aspire to transfer...
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Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project Launches Newly Designed Website
The Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project currently records slightly more than 31,000 page views every month, 372,000 in the past year. And now, thanks to a new, mobile-friendly design,...
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Announcing Funding Awards for 2019-20
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our first round of funding awards for 2019-20 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students.The...
View ArticleCall for Nominations: Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public
Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in PublicNominations Due Friday, February 15, 2019
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Annie Dwyer Publishes Article on Graduate Education in Western Humanities Review
The fall 2018 Special Issue of the Western Humanities Review, on the theme of “humanities in the community,” is now available, and inside, you can find Annie Dwyer’s most recent publication, “The...
View ArticleWhiting Public Engagement Fellowship and Seed Grant CFP
The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship provides an award of $50,000 to humanities professors to advance ambitious projects to infuse the richness, profundity, and nuance that give the humanities...
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ethan ucker Awarded Humanities Without Walls Fellowship
ethan ucker (English) has received a 2019 Humanities Without Walls Fellowship, one of 30 doctoral students selected nationwide. Humanities Without Walls is a consortium that links the humanities...
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Readers Respond to Seattle Times Article on Humanities at UW
Seattle Times staff reporter Katherine Long’s most recent article on the changing landscape of higher education, titled “As STEM majors soar at UW, interest in humanities shrinks — a potentially costly...
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Dan Berger Publishes Article on “The Washington Prison History Project”
The most recent issue of Public: Arts, Design, Humanities, a journal of Imagining America, features an article by Dan Berger (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) as a case study of...
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Where the House Was - Private Film Screening
Where the House Was started with Frances McCue’s proposal to director Ryan Adams to make a short documentary of the teardown of the Victorian house at 1634 Eleventh Avenue. The now demolished...
View ArticleKatz Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities 2019-2020
We are pleased to announce that Chadwick Allen (University of Washington), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (UC Santa Cruz), and Ruth Wilson Gilmore (The Graduate Center, CUNY) will deliver the 2019-2020 Katz...
View ArticleThe Future of Scholarly Publishing: Manifold Information Sessions
On Monday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 19, UW Libraries will be holding general information sessions on Manifold, an open-access, digital book publishing platform created by the University of Minnesota...
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