Welcome to the Simpson Center
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The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces its funding awards for the upcoming year.
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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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The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that create new forms of scholarship.
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| Regina 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. The... |
| 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... |
| Jesse Oak Taylor Wins Ecocriticism Book Prize Jesse Oak Taylor (English) has won the 2017 Ecocriticism Book Award from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment for his book The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British... |
Upcoming Events
Funding Opportunities
The Simpson Center provides financial and administrative support for crossdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement projects. Simpson Center funding sponsors a wide range of activities, including fellowships for UW faculty and doctoral students, cross-departmental research groups, scholarly conferences and symposia, and community-engaged collaborations. Read more
Support the Simpson Center
Each year, the Simpson Center receives generous gifts that provide support for a wide range of activities on the UW campus and in the greater Seattle community. These contributions enable the Simpson Center to foster the growth of existing programs and to provide support for new initiatives in the development of cutting edge research, innovative teaching, and campus-community engagement. Learn about ways to give