About the Simpson Center
Our Mission: The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. Read more
Our History: Since 2000, the Simpson Center has funded 136 faculty fellowships and 45 dissertation fellowships supporting scholars from 30 campus units across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and professional schools. Read more
See the Simpson Center Fact Sheet for more information.
Administration
The Simpson Center operates under the guidance of Director Kathleen Woodward. Our administration supports programs that fulfill the Simpson Center’s central missions, projects proposed by UW faculty, staff, and graduate students, and daily coordination of resources and facilities.
Facilities
The Simpson Center has four spaces that are available by request for sponsored projects and programs, as well as humanities, interdepartmental, and scholarly events organized by other UW organizations.
What Others Are Saying
“The most robust graduate program for the new public humanists is the Certificate in Public Scholarship, at the University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities.” — Julie Ellison, founding director, Imagining America
“The Simpson Center serves as a national model for the transformation of traditional humanities centers in the digital age.” — Bruce Cole, former NEH chairman