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Former Mellon Fellow Key McFarlane Publishes "Negative Research" in The Professional Geographer
The October issue of The Professional Geographer includes “Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and their Limits,” an article by Key MacFarlane, a 2016 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Public Projects in the Humanities.
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De-Carbonizing Academic Conferencing
On Thursday, September 19, organizers and activists were in the final phases of preparing for what would become the largest climate mobilization in history. Over the course of the following week, an estimated 7.6 million people would strike for climate...
Environmental Humanities, 19th Century, Literary Studies, Language and Literature, Environment
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American Sabor wins Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence
Congratulations to Professors Marisol Berríos-Miranda (Music), Shannon Dudley (Music), and Michelle Habell-Pallán (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), whose bilingual book, American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music (University of Washington Press 2017) is the winner of Best History...
Awards, Latinx, Barclay Simpson Award, Public Scholarship
Deborah Kamen and Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Simpson Center Welcomes Two New Executive Board Members
The Simpson Center is pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Classics Deborah Kamen and Associate Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Sasha Su-Ling Welland have been appointed to the Simpson Center's Executive Board.
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Summer at the Simpson Center
A roundup of programming, projects, and events that will be taking place at the Simpson Center this summer, including three summer institutes, two groups of summer fellows (one in the digital humanities, the other in public scholarship), and a flightless...
Undergraduate Education, Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Digital Humanities, Graduate Education
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Interrupting Privilege
On the night after the 2016 presidential election, fifty students and alumni gathered in the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center Theater. The mood was funereal as everyone took their seats and waited for Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph to...
Race
Professor Ralina Joseph
Interrupting Privilege
UW Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph Is Teaching People to Talk About Race Across Generational and Racial Lines
Race, Communication, Public Scholarship, Systemic Racism
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The Simpson Center Goes to HASTAC 2019
Last month, the Simpson Center sent a handful of Indigenous doctoral candidates from the UW to the University of British Columbia for the 2019 HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Conference, the theme of which was “Decolonizing...
Digital Humanities, Humanities, American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Resistance
Gender Violence and Indigenous Resistance
On May 6, the Simpson Center was graced with the presence and wisdom of Native American activist and citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation Yvonne Wanrow (now Yvonne Swan) and University of New Mexico Assistant Professor...
American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Current Events
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The Dos and Don’ts of Applying to Community College Jobs
For most doctoral candidates and recent PhDs, summer is often dedicated to preparing for the fall job market. In addition to drafting dissertation chapters and finally getting to those languishing revise and resubmits (alongside often precarious forms of summer employment)...
Community Colleges
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Community Colleges in the Climate of Scarcity
As I move through my final quarter as a Mellow Fellow and share my experiences with colleagues who are interested in applying for next year’s cohort, I want to take some time to reflect on some of the challenges I...
Community Colleges, Graduate Education
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Making Good Relations
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in April, a dozen graduate students gathered in the Simpson Center and nervously awaited the arrival of Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, the Canadian Research Chair in Indigenous...
American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Public Scholarship, Feminisms, Graduate Education