Christian Lee Novetzke (Jackson School of International Studies) has published a new book, The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Columbia, 2016), about the cultural politics surrounding the rise of Marathi literature in 13th-century India...
Ruth Moon (Communication), a fifth-year PhD candidate, has received four fellowships to support her dissertation research on the work culture of journalists in Kigali, Rwanda.
The book The Day of Shelly’s Death (2014) by Renato Rosaldo inspired one of Rosaldo’s former students, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, a University of Washington Associate Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. She too had been questioning the limits of...
Mellon Fellows are actively rewriting the narrative of success in humanities doctoral education. At the UW, departments are turning toward this same goal.
Eric Ames, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, has published a new book on the Werner Herzog film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). His book, by the same name, is part of the Film Classics Series...
"Phillip Thurtle, a University of Washington historian asks: Why don’t humans have wings? In his work, Thurtle guides us through the history of science and the rise of modern genetics, with a left turn through the arts, emerging with compelling...
Michael Aguirre (History) and Angela Durán Real (Spanish & Portuguese Studies) have received public engagement fellowships from Imagining America, and Elyse Gordon (Geography), a previous fellow, serves as a co-director of the PAGE initiative.
Jane Wong, a doctoral candidate in English, has a new book, a poetry prize, and a teaching position that testify to her overlapping roles as poet and scholar. Jane joined Pacific Lutheran University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in September...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded nearly $180,000 for a new summer institute on the urban environment at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. The institute, City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities, examines how Western...
Monica De La Torre (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Media & Expressive Culture in Arizona State University’s School of Transborder Studies following the completion of her PhD this spring.
