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Professor Amelia Glaser standing outside the Simpson Center seminar room
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.
Translation Studies
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...
Black Studies, Social Justice, History, UW Faculty
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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...
Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies, UW Faculty
Joel Alden Schlosser stands with arms crossed in front of a chalkboard.
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...
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.
Black and white illustration of a person plugging their ears to block out city noise
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.
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...
Environmental Humanities, 19th Century, Literary Studies, Language and Literature, Environment
Cover of American Sabor.
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.
UW Faculty
The UW campus in the summer, with the Drumheller Fountain and Mount Rainier visible in the distance
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
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
Ralina Joseph sits in front of a bookcase wearing glasses and a dark jacket.
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