The Simpson Center for the Humanities is proud to announce our Second and Third Book 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 spring funding round.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities is proud to announce our Second and Third Book 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 spring 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.
Second and Third Book Fellowships
Paul S. Atkins (Asian Languages & Literature)
Annotated Translation with Critical Introduction of Shōkenkō, Selected Poems of Zekkai Chūshin (1336-1405)
Elena Campbell (History)
The Northward Turn: Nationalism, Development, and Environment in Late Imperial Russia
Laura Chrisman (English)
Changing Tides: Transnational Blackness Across the US and South Africa, 1870-1930
Betsy Evans (Linguistics)
Perceptual Dialectology: Past, Present, and Future
Ted Hiebert (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
Photographing Ambiguity
Sunila Kale (Jackson School of International Studies)
The Company Village: Extractive Economies in 21st India
Colin Marshall (Philosophy)
The Roots of Respectful Persuasion
Jamie Mayerfeld (Political Science)
Shelters of Injustice
Sonnet Retman (American Ethnic Studies)
Sounding Migration, Recording Black Modernity
Joel Thomas Walker (History)
Witness to the Mongols: A Global History Source Book
Collaborative Projects
Nancy Bou Ayash (English), Aria Fani (Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures), Sasha Senderovich (Slavic Studies)
Translation Studies Hub
Amaranth Borsuk (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell), Ching-In Chen (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell), Jasmine Mahmoud (Drama)
ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity
Marika Cifor (iSchool), Anna Hoffman (iSchool), Regina Lee (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), Daniela Rosner (Human Centered Design & Engineering),
Feminist / Critical Digital Studies
Shannon Dudley (Music)
Seattle Participatory Arts Network
Moon-Ho Jung (History), Oliver Rollins (American Ethnic Studies), Stephanie Smallwood (Honors Program),
The Black Radical Tradition: Appreciating Jack O’Dell
Jasmine Mahmoud (Drama), Ching-In Chen (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell), Whitney Lynn (Art), Daniela Rosner (Human Centered Design & Engineering)
Minoritarian Performance Studies
Anna Preus (English), Geoffrey Turnovsky (French & Italian), Melanie Walsh (Information School), Richard Watts (French & Italian)
The Impact of AI on Authorship, Reading, Translation, and Critique
Anita Ramasastry (Law), Tony Lucero (Comparative History of Ideas)
Reimagining Global Engagement, Reciprocity, and Repair
Lynn Thomas (History), Alys Weinbaum (English)
Reproductive Cultures and Politics
Anand Yang (History)
Translations of Migration
Faculty Summer Reading Groups
Suhanthie Motha (English)
Community-Based Language Teacher Education Programs
Ron Krabill (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
Critical Directions in Recent Media Studies Scholarship
Janelle Rodriques (English)
Sylvia Wynter Reading Group
Graduate Research Clusters
Jori Bercier (College of the Built Environment) and Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby (Anthropology)
QueerCrip Research Collective
Mackenzie Bounds (School of Drama) and Cain Miller (Cinema & Media Studies)
Platform Perspectives
Ellen Chang (Cinema & Media Studies) and Ananya Sikand (Art + Art History + Design)
Feminist Writing
Shayla Chatto (Education) and Elizabeth Wessells (Anthropology)
Indigenous Praxis in In/formal Settings
Tess Chen (Anthropology) and Celine Liao (Sociology)
Sinophone Public Scholarship
Ryan DeCarsky (Sociology) and Madalena Monnier-Reyna (Geography)
Gender and Sexuality
Rachael Herren (Drama) and Amanda Marie Rogus (Drama)
Shakespeare and Early Modern Textual Studies
Susan Hou (Education) and Sue Zhou (History)
Study of Emotions and Affect
Soohyung Hur (Geography) and Jenny Lee (Communication)
Constellations of Asian Racialization
Jamelah Jacob (History) and Marielle Marcaida (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies
Nikita Willeford Kastrinos (English) and Thea Lund (Scandinavian)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Studies
Inji Kim (Art + Art History + Design) and Anna Parkhurst (Cinema & Media Studies)
Dismantling the Canon