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 2023-2024 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent fall funding round.
Generally speaking, the Simpson Center Executive Board makes awards decisions twice during each academic year. During the spring funding round, the Simpson Center welcomes proposals for collaborative projects and 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
Arbella Bet-Shlimon (Associate Professor, History)
Colonialism and Anticolonialism Across the Iraq-Kuwait Border, 1920-1990
Christina Yuen Zi Chung (PhD Candidate, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
At the Seams of the World: Gender and Decoloniality in Hong Kong Contemporary Art
Aria Fani (Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Culture)
Spaces Between Nations: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
Hannah Frydman (Assistant Professor, French & Italian)
Between the Sheets: Classified Advertising, Sexuality, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
P. Joshua Griffin (Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies)
Kivalina’s Horizons: Iñupiaq Resurgence in an Age of Climate Change
Douglas Ishii (Assistant Professor, English)
Something Real: Asian American Arts Criticism and the Racialization of Sophistication
Sarah Levin-Richardson (Associate Professor, Classics)
The Emotional Landscape of Roman Slavery
Reuven Pinnata (PhD Candidate, English)
Troubling Inheritances: On World Literature as Indonesian Literature
Chandan Reddy (Associate Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: On Liberalism's Command Powers
Josh Reid (Associate Professor, American Indian Studies)
Indigenous Explorers: Making Indigenous Futures and Pacific Worlds
Ananya Sikand (PhD Candidate, Art History)
Muslim Unbelonging: Conceptual and Performance Art in Post-Independence South Asia (1970-2020)
Lynn Thomas (Professor, History)
A Global History of Abortion: Kenya, the United States, and Contested Technologies
Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships
Mal Ahern (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Factory Forms (Image and Object Database)
Taiko Aoki-Marcial (PhD Student, English) and Cristina Sánchez-Martín (Assistant Professor, English)
Multilingual "Translationships" and Digital Storytelling with Local Communities
Melinda Cohoon (PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies)
Digital Iran Reloaded: Iranian Censorship of Citizens and the Gaming Industry
Hannah Frydman (Assistant Professor, French & Italian)
Between the Digital Sheets: Research and Teaching Methods for Working with Digitized Classified Ads
Nathanael Elias Mengist (PhD Student, Human Centered Design and Engineering) and Gabrielle Benabdallah (PhD Student, Human Centered Design and Engineering)
Alchemical Operations
Melanie Walsh (Assistant Teaching Professor, Information School)
When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century
Society of Scholars Summer Fellowships
Andreas Bassett (PhD Candidate, English)
The Purchase of Playbooks: Shopping for Drama and Book Buying in Early Modern England
Aaron Carpenter (PhD Candidate, German)
Rajžaliteratur – A Journey Through the Shifting Words of German-Language Traumatic Narratives of South Slavic Writers
Alexandra Meany (PhD Candidate, English)
Post-war U.S. Urban Literatures and Geographies of Violence
Frances O'Shaughnessy (PhD Candidate, History)
Black Revolution on the Sea Islands: Empire, Property, and the Emancipation of Humanity
Maxine Savage (PhD Candidate, Scandinavian Studies)
North Adjacent: Race, Sex, and the Spatiotemporality of Borealism
Or Vallah (PhD Candidate, Art History)
"I live in hell and paint its pictures": Rethinking the Early Modern Art-making Experience from a Disability Studies Perspective
Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public
Ellie Cleasby (PhD Student, Geography)
Valuing Our Clothes: Linking Academic Knowledge and Activism to Organize Against Fast Fashion
Jennifer Baker (PhD Student, English) and Kelly Clemen (PhD Student, English)
Introduction to Feminist Social Cultural Theory: A Video Series
J. Shelby House (PhD Student, Anthropology)
Zoo, Circus, Menagerie, Prison: Multispecies Captivity and Human-Animal Relations at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo
Megan Butler (PhD Candidate, English)
Discovering the Disconnect: Assessing Need Beyond Need for Refugees and New Immigrants
Rasheena Fountain (PhD Student, English)
Sustaining for Us
Collaborative Projects
Research Cluster on Artificial Intelligence:
Anna Preus (Assistant Professor, English), Geoffrey Turnovsky (Associate Professor, French & Italian), Melanie Walsh (Assistant Teaching Professor, Information School), and Richard Watts (Associate Professor, French & Italian)
Technological Transformation and Human Creativity: The Impact of AI on Authorship, Reading, Translation, and Critique
Fall 2023 Working Conference on Migration:
Anand Yang (Professor, History)
Translations of Migration