Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Collaborative Project, Faculty Writing Group and Retreat, and Graduate Research Cluster 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 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
Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism
LaShawnDa Pittman (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies), Jelani Ince (Assistant Professor, Sociology), Chrystel Oloukoi (Assistant Professor, Geography), Golden Owens (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Decolonizing Disability Studies through Global and Local Theory
Stephen Meyers (Associate Professor, Law, Societies & Justice)
Evo-Hub
Rose Novick (Assistant Professor, Philosophy), Will DeWitt (Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences)
Partition and Solidarity: Anticolonial Struggles in the "American Century"
Moon-Ho Jung (Professor, History), Chandan Reddy (Associate Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Transgender and the Law: A Public Conversation
Laurie Marhoefer (Professor, History), Rafael Balling (Assistant Professor, German Studies)
Faculty Writing Groups and Retreats
Addressing Publication Bias in non-Western Research Contexts: Implications for WAC Programs and Western Research Universities
Megan Callow (Associate Teaching Professor, English), Josie Walwema (Assistant Teaching Professor, English), Ben Gardner (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Bothell)
Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism
Chrystel Oloukoi (Assistant Professor, Geography), Jelani Ince (Assistant Professor, Sociology), Golden Owens (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies), LaShawnDa Pittman (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Book Projects Centering Transnational, Feminist, and Antiracist Approaches to Technology, Surveillance, and State Violence
Ilā Ravichandran (Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Tacoma), Kavita Dattani (Assistant Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies), Erin McElroy (Assistant Professor, Geography)
Epic Emotion Meets Metaphor
Olga Levaniouk (Professor, Classics), Heidi Pauwels (Professor, Asian Languages & Literature)
Writing Across East Asia
Hajin Jun (Assistant Professor, History), Ungsan Kim (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literature), Miriam Chusid (Assistant Professor, Art + Art History + Design)
Writing, Revising, and Rising Together
Angelica Amezcua (Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies), Ray Lahiri (Assistant Professor, Classics), Jonathan Radocay (Assistant Professor, English), Theresa Rocha Beardall (Assistant Professor, Sociology), Francisco Luis Reyes (Assistant Professor, Music)
Graduate Research Clusters
Classics, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies
Amelia Lehosit (English), Hope St. John (Anthropology)
Collaborations in the Environmental Humanities
Molly Porter (English), Jess Cavalari (History)
Critical Theory and New Social Ecologies: Developing Praxis for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Alexey Kuznetsov (International Studies, Governance and Public Policy), Zarine Kharazian (Human-Centered Design & Engineering)
Digital Humanities Reading & Research Cluster
Xinyue Yu (Asian Languages & Literature), Sikose Mjali (English)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Studies
Micaela Chavez (English), Ian Gwin (Scandinavian Studies)
Immigrant Refugee and Undocumented Students in Action
Yuying Xie (Geography), Tongtian Xiao (Political Science)
Indigenous Writing Praxis
Natalie Vaughan-Wynn (Geography), Taiko Aoki-Marcial (English)
More-than-Human Worlds
Nastasia Paul-Gera (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), Shelby House (Anthropology)
QueerCrip Research Collective
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby (Anthropology), Jori Bercier (Built Environments)
Transnational Queer and Transgender Scholarship
Saad Khan (Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies), Eugenio Quantro-Plaga (Anthropology)
UW Graduate Aging Research Group
Nicolai Wohns (Philosophy), Sarah McKiddy (Nursing)