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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...

Annie Dwyer, Assistant Program Director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, asked former faculty mentors in the program to speak about social justice work and publicly-engaged teaching in community colleges.

Rachel Lanier Taylor, a UW doctoral candidate in history, has been selected by the Society for History in the Federal Government in Washington, DC, for an internship generating graduate student engagement with federal government history and humanities programs. Taylor will...

Frances McCue (English) has a new book of poetry, Timber Curtain, that collects poems written during the filming of the forthcoming documentary Where the House Was, a film project supported by the Simpson Center.

The most recent two issues of the art-criticism journal FIELD draw extensively on Socially Engaged Art in Japan , a November 2015 conference supported by the Simpson Center and organized by Justin Jesty (Asian Languages & Literatures). FIELD , with...

Scholars track hidden stories at the birthplace of a geologic era.

Leigh Mercer (Spanish & Portuguese Studies) has developed a new graduate seminar based on her work as a 2016 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities.

Priti Ramamurthy (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has received a Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award to conduct research in India for nine months beginning this winter, in partnership with Ambedkar University in New Delhi.

James Tweedie (Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media) has been named one of two Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for 2017. He receives a $25,000 grant to work on his book project, a history...

Regina Yung Lee (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has developed a new graduate seminar based on her work as a 2017 Mellon Summer Fellow for New Graduate Seminars in the Humanities . The fellowship, part of the Simpson Center’s Reimagining...

Online searches offer cultural insight through readily available tools and a particular attention to language, according to literary scholar Daniel Shore.

Liina-Ly Roos, a doctoral student in Scandinavian Studies, has received the Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities for her teaching and her research in Estonian literature and film, Baltic cinema, and Nordic cinema and culture.