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“Socialism” is back! For decades the word was considered an embarrassment—a despised failure and relic of a bygone era, rightly consigned to the historical dustbin. No more! Today,...
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The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces a new two-year program—Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration—starting in September 2019, thanks...
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UW Professor of English Gillian Harkins has facilitated a number of projects that center currently and formerly incarcerated people while collaborating with various groups to identify and...
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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...
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| Ralina Joseph Awarded Inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship Today, The American Council of Learned Societies announced that it has selected Professor Ralina Joseph (Communications) as an inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow. The Scholars &... |
| Gillian Harkins Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for a Decade of Prison Education Work By Denise Grollmus When Gillian Harkins first started volunteering with University Beyond Bars (UBB), she noticed that while many UW faculty and graduate students did work related to prisons and... |
| Jenna Grant Awarded Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Seed Grant Jenna Grant (Anthropology) recently received a $10,000 Public Engagement Seed Grant from the Whiting Foundation for her project, Archive Actions: Cambodians and Cambodian Americans Producing... |