Welcome to the Simpson Center
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In this time of upheaval and vulnerability, the Simpson Center is committed to fulfilling its mission of fostering crossdisciplinary exchange and building intellectual communities across...
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This year’s Spring Funding Round opens on March 13. Funding covers the term July 2020-June 2021. The deadline for all Spring Funding Round applications is May 1.
This spring, the Simpson...
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Our Director, Kathleen Woodward, writes about David Quammen's Spillover (2012) in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
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From reimagining the dissertation and reaching new publics to reconnecting with alumni working in a variety of sectors, the Simpson Center's Assistant Director, Rachel Arteaga, reflects on...
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| Public Scholarship Is Scholarship. When Will Universities Treat It as Such? By Caitlin Postal In 2019, I spoke on a panel about representations of teaching and pedagogy in genre media. I and my fellow panelists, which included organizer Lauren Karp, along with presenters... |
| Emergency Resources for Faculty and Students In keeping with our mission of connecting people across the College of Arts & Sciences and beyond, we've gathered together resources from across and beyond the UW, from emergency funds for... |
| The Challenges of Employing Critical Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant By Adrian Kane-Galbraith Upon opening my student evaluations from this past autumn, I found that, once again, my pedagogical emphasis on small independent discussion groups had generated polarized... |