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Jesse Oak Taylor (English) has won the 2017 Ecocriticism Book Award from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment for his book The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf (University...

Haicheng Wang (Art History) has received a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study Chinese bells found at archaeological sites and how ancient Chinese musical culture made an abrupt shift from the dominance of bells to...

It takes creative words to describe the energy that Michelle Habell-Pallán conjures through her boundary-breaking scholarly projects—the work that has earned her the 2017 Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public.

Reiko Yamanaka , Professor and Director of the Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University in Tokyo, joins the Simpson Center as a visiting scholar in April and May 2017. Reiko is an accomplished scholar of noh drama and performance...

Doctoral student Jessica Bachman (History) has created a new exhibit for Suzzallo Library entitled "Bollywood and Bolsheviks: Indo-Soviet Collaboration in Literature and Film, 1954-1991."

Two participants in last year’s Summer Institute in Global Indigeneities (SIGI) have landed prestigious fellowships that they credit, in part, to the inaugural institute at the UW.

At first glance, partnership suggests cooperation, equality, and friendship—all inviting notions, especially for trying to move past colonial histories of violence and exploitation. But beneath that surface lie often-unequal relations that the organizers of the project Humanistic Perspectives on Global...

New research from the University of Washington explores the phenomenon of crowdfunding medical costs. The study shows that the rise of medical crowdfunding reflects—and potentially worsens—the inequities already at play in the United States.

Sonal Khullar (Art History) was recently awarded the Cohn Prize for a first book in South Asian Studies from the Association for Asian Studies. The award recognizes her 2015 book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India...

Tell a Congressional staffer that you’re visiting to talk about public support for the humanities and you see waves of both puzzlement and relief wash across their face.

Christina Sunardi recently received the Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance.

Two scholars with connections to the Simpson Center have new books about overlooked trends within the contemporary American prison system. Sabina Vaught ’s Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Juvenile Prison School (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)...