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Anthony Geist (Spanish and Comparative Literature) has been awarded knighthood by Spain, one of the nation’s highest civil honors.

Michael Blake (Philosophy and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance) has been awarded a summer fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study justice, migration, and mercy. The $6,000 award supports his book-length study on the...

Tad Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington, wrote a script to pull every image tagged with “#AR15” on Instagram. He then arranged the images in a digital mosaic titled “A Well-Regulated Militia,” first displayed at...

Longtime Simpson Center collaborator Vicente L. Rafael (History) has published a new book with Duke University Press, Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (2016).

Across the country, doctoral education in the humanities is being reimagined in multiple ways. From graduate seminars to dissertation formats, and from professional development to diverse career trajectories, programs around the United States are inventing new models for advanced study...

The Simpson Center for the Humanities welcomes visiting scholar Lisa Samuels, who is in residence January through June 2016. Samuels has published thirteen books of poetry and prose, with recent experiments in memoir ( Anti M, 2013) and the novel...

Adam D. Moore (Information School) has edited a new book analyzing the moral and legal foundations of privacy, security, and accountability, drawing on participants from a 2013 conference sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

A groundbreaking digital project at the University of Washington is preserving the knowledge of the SeaTac and Seattle victories, ensuring that scholars, activists, journalists, and others can learn from the hard-fought campaigns.

Katharyne Mitchell (Geography) and Matthew Sparke (Geography and Jackson School of International Studies) have received fellowships to study at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland in fall 2016. The Foundation hosts scientists and experts in ethical, legal, and social implications of...

It’s a little odd to hear the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities praise the craft of welding as a way to show the value of the humanities, as William D. Adams did in a talk at the...

Two days before the symposium Socially Engaged Art in Japan at the University of Washington in November 2015, organizers announced that the celebrated curator Kitagawa Fram had been denied entry to the US, allegedly due to his role protesting a...

William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, presents a public address on the public role of the humanities Friday, December 4, 3:30 pm at the University of Washington wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House. A reception follows.