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What Are You Reading?: Winter Break Recommendations from Simpson Center Scholars and Staff
In anticipation of winter break, we asked Simpson Center-affiliated scholars and staff what books they’re excited to dig into once the end-of-the-quarter frenzy has wound down.Read More >
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Fellows in Digital Humanities & Public Scholarship Present at the National Humanities Conference
In mid-November, the Simpson Center sent three of its past fellows in digital humanities and public scholarship to the National Humanities Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Their panel, “Digital Public Humanities: Navigating Community and Identity in the 21st Century,” was designed...Read More >
Digital Humanities
Justin Jesty and an image of his book, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan.
Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan Awarded the ASAP 2019 Book Prize
Congratulations to Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature Justin Jesty, whose book, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (Cornell), was recently awarded the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present's 2019 Book Prize. Art and Engagement...Read More >
Awards, Japan
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UCSD Professor Amelia Glaser on Teaching Translation for a STEM Campus
To explain how her Culture, Art, and Technology class has managed to attract so many students at a STEM campus, the Translation Studies Hub invited Professor Amelia Glaser to give a talk on Oct. 29.Read More >
Translation Studies
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Check Out Our New Video Series: Keywords
We're excited to announce the launch of our new video series, Keywords, in which Simpson Center-affiliated scholars introduce ideas central to their work by talking about keywords that are specialized, complicated, contentious, or ambiguous.In our first episode, Katz Distinguished Lecturer...Read More >
Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies, UW Faculty
Joy Ann Willisamson-Lott
Joy Ann Williamson-Lott's Jim Crow Campus Receives the AAC&U 2020 Frederic W. Ness Book Award
Congratulations to Joy Ann Willisamson-Lott, whose book, Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order (Teachers College Press 2018), has been awarded the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ annual Frederic W. Ness Book...Read More >
Black Studies, Social Justice, History, UW Faculty
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CHCI-ACLS Fellow Joel Alden Schlosser on the Politics of Refusal, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Language of Flourishing
On November 20, Joel Alden Schlosser will be giving a talk, “Politics is for the Dogs: Diogenes the Cynic and Political Refusal,” that emerges from his current work as a 2019-2020 CHCI-ACLS Visiting Fellow in Residence at the Simpson Center...Read More >
Political Science
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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.Read More >
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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.Read More >
Seattle, Public Scholarship
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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...Read More >
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...Read More >
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.Read More >
UW Faculty