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...
On a sunny day in April, Jean Dennison sits tucked away in her office on the fifth floor of the Brutalist labyrinth that is Padelford Hall. She fields a steady stream of calls and meetings as the afternoon light streaks...
On May 1, UW’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery reached maximum capacity as people piled in to hear artist, teacher, and writer shawné michaelain holloway give her artist talk, “FOCUS ON THE BEHAVIOR YOU WANT.” holloway’s talk was part of the Black...
Megan Ward, a PhD candidate in the Jackson School of International Studies, has received the Spring 2019 Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research from the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
In the third and final installment of the Rethinking the Global Turn series, Dr. Sarah Victoria Turner, Deputy Director of Research for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art at Yale University, and founding co-editor of British Art...
Professors Kemi Adeyemi (GWSS) and La TaSha Levy (AES) have both been awarded six-month Career Enhancement Fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Looking at the pilot run of "Speaking Up," Céline Maillard highlights how Coordinates Studies courses can impact college students, their instructors, and the wider community.
The American Council of Learned Societies announced that it has selected Professor Ralina Joseph (Communications) as an inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow.
William Bamber, a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, was recently awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion fellowships for the dissertation, "Fez & Sherwani: Self-fashioning, Consumption and Ottoman Influence in 19th Century South Asia."
Unlike elite colleges that espouse the ethos of exclusion, weeding out “underprepared” or “underqualified” students, the ideal of community college is to prepare all their students from any background to meet the expectations attached to their academic or occupational calling...
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces a new two-year program— Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration —starting in September 2019, thanks to a generous $650,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program, which...
When Gillian Harkins first started volunteering with University Beyond Bars (UBB), she noticed that while many UW faculty and graduate students did work related to prisons and education, few were speaking to each other about it. In the hopes of...
