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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 Humanities...

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.

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...

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.