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Michael D. Aguirre, a doctoral student in History, has received a dissertation fellowship from the Center for Engaged Scholarship , an organization of social scientists that builds connections between academics and progressive change agents. The $25,000 award recognizes dissertation work...

Farmer, one of the world’s most influential thinkers on global health and a co-founder of the organization Partners in Health, held a series of conversations last week with a group of UW scholars examining global health through the lenses of...

Journalists turn to UW’s Nora Kenworthy and Lauren Berliner to understand the rise of crowdfunding campaigns for health care costs.

Stephen Groening (Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media) has developed a new graduate seminar based on his work as a 2017 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities . The fellowship, part of the Simpson Center’s Reimagining the...

UW PhD candidate Zhenzhen He-Weatherford reflects on the educational contexts and possibilities that might exceed the superficial celebration and continued marginalization of minoritized populations.

As a Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics in the Humanities, I have a goal this year to help develop better resources for community college students looking to transfer to the University of Washington. This work has led me to...

Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology) has received the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association for her book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin.

To me, my community college experience was positive, formative, eye-opening, and grounding.

My initial goal during my year as a Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics was to better acquaint myself with the community college system as a potential career path after graduation. This remains the basic organizing principle behind my shadowing...

Doctoral student Guillaume Tourniaire on the parallel between the classroom and performance space.

The website Africa Is a Country has published three articles by University of Washington faculty examining the notion of “partnership” as it’s used in global health and related fields. All three grow out of H umanistic Perspectives on Global Health...

When I was in graduate school studying American literature, a popular way to respond to questions about dense seminar texts was to say, “I think that what we are really looking at here is a both/and scenario. The two interpretive...