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 2025-2026 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 2025 fall funding round, the Simpson Center welcomed proposals for Society of Scholars, Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public, and Digital Humanities fellowships as well as collaborative projects. During the upcoming spring funding round, the Simpson Center will welcome proposals for collaborative projects including graduate research clusters and faculty writing groups and retreats. The upcoming spring funding round will open on March 14, 2025, and applications will be due on April 4, 2025. Please note that the Simpson Center will also accept applications for First Book fellowships through a special funding round from February 7-March 7, 2025.
Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
Society of Scholars Fellowships
Jesse Cavalari (PhD Candidate, History)
Half-Assed Imperialism on the Camino Real: Mule Trains and the Formation of Colonial Panamanian Society, 1513 - 1739
Kavita Dattani (Assistant Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
A Suitable Sexuality: Leisure, Pleasure and Dating Apps in India
Agnieszka Jezyk (Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Anxiety Machines: Technological Skepticism and the 1920s Avant-Garde in Poland
Saad Khan (PhD Candidate, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Nascent Moves: Loss, Desire, In/Visible LGBTQ Resistances in Bangladesh
Alexandria Ramos (Assistant Professor, English)
Pedagogies of Struggle: The Print Politics of Latinx and Asian American Writer-Activists 1898-1968
Jen Rose Smith (Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies)
Indigenous Weather: Atmospheric Expertise in Science and Story
Linh Thủy Nguyễn (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Seadrift: Race and Resource Conflict in Cold War Environmental Management
Timeka Tounsel (Associate Professor, Communication)
Flipping Detroit: Rebranding America's Blackest City
Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (PhD Candidate, Geography)
Frybread, the Farm Bill, and Food Sovereignty Futures: Countering Food Apartheid
Alys Weinbaum (Professor, English)
Reproductive Dystopia
Kathleen Woodward (Professor, English)
Assisted Living
Glennys Young (Professor, History)
Hot Spain in the Cold War
Society of Scholars Summer Fellowships
Erica Bigelow (PhD Candidate, Philosophy)
Bad Feelings, Feeling Badly
Francesca Colonnese (PhD Candidate, English)
Brain Poetics: Temporal Perception and Reading 19th Century Poetry
Amna Farooqi (PhD Candidate, Drama)
Performing Exposure: Race, Empire, and Minoritarian Theatre in the 21st Century
Angel Garduño (PhD Candidate, English)
Debt, Dispossession, and (un)Making the Domestic Scene
Nastasia Paul-Gera (PhD Candidate, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Making Tiger Country: Gender, Species, and State Power in Satpura Tiger Reserve
Kexin Song (PhD Candidate, English)
Articulate Fossils: Reading Extinction with Victorian Literature and Science
Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowships
LaNesha DeBardelaben (PhD Student, Education)
The Black Witness Project
Abygail Gutierrez (PhD Student, English)
Preparing the Body: Archives, Collectivity, and Grief in Community
Ting-Chieh Ou-Yang (PhD Candidate, History)
Mapping Taiwan's History on YouTube: The Rise of Han Chinese Settlers During China's Last Dynasty
Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (PhD Candidate, Geography)
Sovereignty, Salmon, and Self-determination: Documenting Quinault Indian Nation's Foodways and Futures
Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships
Paul Atkins (Professor, Asian Languages & Literatures), Herman Chau (PhD Candidate, Mathematics), Michael Zeng (PhD Student, Mathematics)
Deriving Orthographic Data from Classical Japanese Texts with Machine-Learning Methods
Siddharth Bhogra (PhD Student, English)
Empires of Description
Rhema Hokama (Assistant Professor, English)
Mapping Faith across Oceans: Travel Writing and Religious Encounter in Early Modern Protestant Europe and the Asia-Pacific World
Mark Letteney (Assistant Professor, History)
Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration Database
Sikose Mjali (PhD Student, English)
UNSILENCED - Unearthing SECHABA the voice of the ANC Underground (1967-1990): Corpus Linguistics, Digital Text Mining and Critical Discourse Analysis
Anna Preus (Assistant Professor, English)
Publishing Empire
Nikki Yeboah (Assistant Professor, Drama), Adrienne Mackey (Assistant Professor, Drama)
Mapping Protest / 11th AND PINE: Digitizing Spatial Stories of CHOP
Runjie Wang (PhD Student, Cinema & Media Studies)
Vision Work: A Digital Humanities Project on Machine Vision and Warehouse Labor
Collaborative Projects
Cultural Analytics Praxis
Anna Preus (Assistant Professor, English), Melanie Walsh (Assistant Professor, Information School)
New Collaborations in Critical Sport Studies
Ron Krabill (Professor, UW Bothell IAS), Anne Searcy (Associate Professor, Music History)
Relational Memory Studies
Jason Groves (Associate Professor, German Studies), Liora Halperin (Professor, History)
Transforming Knowledge-Making Practices Through Research on Equity-Oriented and Antiracist Writing Program Initiatives Across the UW
Stephanie Kerschbaum (Professor, English)
Wetlandia!: Analytics for a Global Terraqueous Humanities
Morgan Vickers (Assistant Professor, Law, Societies & Justice), Aditya Ramesh (Assistant Professor, History)