Barclay Simpson Scholars Archive
The Simpson Center for the Humanities biannually invites proposals from doctoral students in the humanities to pursue public-facing projects in their areas of study and practice. Our inaugural cohort of fellows met throughout the summer of 2021, with cohorts to be selected every other fall. The fellowship builds on the Simpson Center’s longstanding commitment to public scholarship and furthers the groundbreaking work undertaken by University of Washington faculty, doctoral students, and their community partners in the Simpson Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics initiative (2015-2021). Fellowship cohorts meet weekly throughout the summer to discuss their research in progress.
2023 - 2024 Barclay Simpson Scholars
2021 - 2022 Barclay Simpson Scholars
Rasheena Fountain (she/her/hers)
Sustaining for Us
Sustaining for Us is a sonic storytelling experience and a public artist gathering centering artists—of color, queer, and queer of color—and their visions for sustenance and futurity in collaboration with other-than-humans. The first installment of Sustaining for Us explores musical and artistic visions of sustenance as beings in relationship with other-than-humans and while living within the threats from climate change, white supremacy, and more. The series aims to show how expressions of care expressed through storytelling and art can impact and influence hegemonic ideas of environmental engagement, open possibilities for environmental solutions, and combat ongoing myths within settler colonialism.