Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Collaborative Project, Faculty Summer Reading, and Graduate Research Cluster 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.
Collaborative Projects
AI, Creativity, and the Humanities
Anna Preus (Assistant Professor, English), Geoffrey Turnovsky (Associate Professor, French & Italian Studies), Melanie Walsh (Assistant Professor, Information School), Golden Owens (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Digital Border Technologies and Media
Vanessa Freije (Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies), Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Indigenous Political Ecologies & Environmental Humanities
Jen Rose Smith (Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies)
Passages: Tracing Routes to the Future, a Symposium of Northwest Native Art
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse (Associate Professor, Art History)
Translation Studies Hub
Sasha Senderovich (Associate Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures), Nancy Bou Ayash (Associate Professor, English), Aria Fani (Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures)
Transnational Feminisms and Categories of Sexual Violence
Gillian Harkins (Professor, English)
Faculty Summer Reading Groups
Climate Justice and Abolitionist Worldmaking
Jed Murr (Associate Teaching Professor, IAS Bothell), José Alaniz (Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures), Danya Al-Saleh (Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies), Jasmine Mahmoud (Assistant Professor, School of Drama), Megan Ybarra (Associate Professor, Geography)
Diversifying Literary Washington: Finding BIPOC and Historically Underrepresented PNW Writers
Sarah Chavez (Assistant Teaching Professor, IAS Tacoma), Ever Jones (Teaching Professor, IAS Tacoma), Danica Miller (Associate Professor, IAS Tacoma), Jessi Quizar (Assistant Professor, IAS Tacoma), Maria-Tania Banders Becerra Weingarden (Associate Teaching Professor, IAS Tacoma)
National Identity, Affect, and the Political in Recent Media Studies
Leigh Mercer (Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies), Amanda Doxtater (Associate Professor, Scandinavian Studies), Elizabeth Hochberg (Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portoguese Studies), Adair Rounthwaite (Associate Professor, Art History)
Graduate Research Clusters
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Micaela Chavez (English), Thea Lund (Scandinavian Studies)
Feminist Writing
Ananya Sikand (Art History), Ellen Chang (Cinema & Media Studies)
Gender and Sexuality
Ryan DeCarsky (Sociology), Jana Foxe (Political Science)
Indigenous Writing Praxis
Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (Geography), Taiko Aoki-Marcial (English)
Media Conditioning: A Research Cluster on Media Philosophy
Runjie Wang (Cinema & Media Studies), Jennie Baker (English)
More-than-Human Worlds
Shelby House (Anthropology), Natasia Paul-Gera (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
QueerCrip Research Collective
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby (Anthropology), Jori Bercier (College of Built Environments)
Technology, Labor, and Gender
Jingrui Yan (Cinema & Media Studies), Nina Lutz (Human Centered Design & Engineering)
Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies
Paul Jason Perez (Information School), Jamelah Jacob (History)