Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2024-2025 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent funding round.
Generally speaking, the Simpson Center Executive Board makes awards decisions twice during each academic year, in the fall and in the spring. During the fall funding round, the Simpson Center welcomes proposals for Society of Scholars and Digital Humanities fellowships as well as collaborative projects. During the spring funding round, the Simpson Center welcomes proposals for collaborative projects including graduate research clusters. Check back for announcements on upcoming funding round dates, instructions, and deadlines.
Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
Society of Scholars Fellowships
Oya Rose Aktas (PhD Candidate, History)
Armenians and Jews in the late Ottoman Empire: Relationality, Violence, and Survival
Danya Al-Saleh (Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies)
Petro-education: The Future of Fossil Fuels between Qatar and Texas
M. Aziz (Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Built with Fists: Martial Artistry during Black Power and the Cold War
Jennifer Baez (Assistant Professor, Art History)
Painting the Miracles of Altagracia: Testimony, Artifact, and the Specter of the Criollo in Hispaniola
Jacob Beckert (PhD Candidate, History)
Profit in the Holy Land: American Capital and Development in Mandatory Palestine
Habiba Ibrahim (Professor, English)
Unclenched and Open: The Sense and Time of Loss in Black Art
Ungsan Kim (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literatures)
Future Imperfect: Crisis, Temporality, and the Intra-Asian Network of Queer Cinema
Jasmine Mahmoud (Assistant Professor, School of Drama)
Avant-Garde Geographies: Race, Public Policy, and Experimentation in the Urban Frontier
Josh Reid (Associate Professor, History)
Indigenous Explorers: Making Indigenous Futures and Pacific Worlds
Oliver Rollins (Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Towards an Antiracist Neuroscience
Diana Ruiz (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Apprehension through Representation: Image Capture of the US-Mexico Border
Kyle J. Trembley (PhD Candidate, Anthropology)
Rattus Hierarchicus: Rats, Caste, and Labor at the Karni Mata Mandir
Society of Scholars Summer Fellowships
JohnMorgan Baker (PhD Candidate, English)
Ralph Werther / Jennie June: A Critical Trans History, 1870-1925
Andreas P. Bassett (PhD Candidate, English)
The Purchase of Playbooks: Reading Drama and Shopping for Books in Early Modern England
Anne Duncan (PhD Candidate, English)
Hauntological Poetics: Repurposing 18th-19th Century Historical Documents in Contemporary American Poetry
Kathleen Escarcha (PhD Candidate, English)
State Power and Transpacific Crossings in Marcos Era Literature
Yandong Li (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies)
Energy Objects: A Media Genealogy of Environmental Control in China
Eric Villiers (PhD Candidate, School of Drama)
Staging Queer, Queer(ing) Curation: Queer Art, Queer Performativity, and Queer Curatorial Practices in Art Museums
Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship
Oya Rose Aktas (PhD Candidate, History)
Shared Neighborhoods in Istanbul and Seattle: Turn of the 20th Century Identities, Encounters, and Transformations
Jesse Cavalari (PhD Candidate, History)
The Digital Medicine Chest: Using Prescription Records as Data for Global Historical Analysis of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health
Heekyoung Cho (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature)
Building an Online Translation Database of Korean Literature
Amelia Lehosit (PhD Candidate, English)
Mearcstapa Translations
LaShawnDa Pittman (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Black Grandmothers World Making: The Black Grandmother Archive
Anna Preus (Assistant Professor, English)
Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940
Adair Rounthwaite (Associate Professor, School of Art + Art History + Design)
Visual Research on an Alt-Right Twitter Meme
Diana Ruiz (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Mapping Digital Discriminatory Media
Jingrui Yan (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies)
Women’s Labor in Chinese Cinema, 1920 – 1950: A Digital Database
Collaborative Projects
From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Collector's Assemblage of Indian Cinema
Sudhir Mahadevan (Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas), Radhika Govindrajan (Associate Professor, Anthropology)
A Classroom-Centered Inquiry into Generative A.I., Large Language Models, and Writing Praxis
Megan Callow (Associate Teaching Professor, English), Ben Wirth (Acting Assistant Professor, English)
Event 2024 Flightless Global Conference, Seattle Hub
Jesse Oak Taylor (Associate Professor, English), Charles LaPorte (Professor, English)
U.S. Colombianidades from the Margins: Intersectionality, Transnationalism and Regionalism in the Diaspora
Ariana Ochoa Camacho (Associate Professor, UW Tacoma IAS)
Outer Space and Intergenerational Ethics
Stephen Gardiner (Professor, Philosophy)
Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds from Below
Erin McElroy (Assistant Professor, Geography)