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Simpson Center for the Humanities

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 UW faculty members with 170 Society of Scholars Fellowships, 30 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships, and 19 Mellon Summer Fellowships for Reaching New Publics. Graduate students have been awarded 72 Society of Scholars Fellowships, 30 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships, and 24 Mellon Fellowships for Reaching New Publics. This has supported scholars from 49 campus units across the the Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma campuses, in 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.

 

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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