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The Simpson Center announces a new four-year program—Reimagining the Humanities PhD—starting in July 2015, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. At this time of accelerating change in higher education, Reimagining the Humanities PhD addresses the...

The Walter Chapin Simpson Center mourns the passing of the visionary philanthropist Barclay Simpson on November 8, 2014. In honor of his memory, the Simpson Center announces the Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public.

Since 2007 WIRED (Women Investigating Race, Ethnicity, and Difference) has been active at the UW, involving approximately forty faculty from across all three campuses and representing the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences. The Simpson Center has funded this...

The Simpson Center congratulates Lance Rhoades and Shawn Wong, who are among those selected for the 2015-16 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau!

This spring the Simpson Center says good-bye to four graduating UW students. One student assistant, Ellie Stillwell, wrote the following reflection on her time at the Simpson Center.

Project management for digital scholarship. Environmental humanities. Islam and forgiveness. Ancient and modern democracy. Popular music studies and digital archive development. These are just a few of the subjects explored in recent short courses offered through the Simpson Center, which...

On behalf of the Simpson Center, Amanda Swain recently had the opportunity to talk with Sara Jo Breslow about how she has continued to practice public scholarship since completing her degree in Environmental Anthropology at UW.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities for UW undergraduates. An annual summer program, the Institute provides twenty competitively-selected students an opportunity to engage in primary interdisciplinary research under the guidance of...

Ron Krabill (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) will represent the Simpson Center and the UW at Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2014.

Michael Honey , the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities at UW Tacoma, was recently interviewed by NPR/KPLU 88.5 FM on his latest publication, Sharecropper’s Troubadour (2013). The book is an oral history of John...

Theresa Ronquillo is an Instructional Consultant at the University of Washington’s Center for Teaching & Learning. On behalf of the Simpson Center, Amanda Swain recently talked with Ronquillo about her work with interactive theater and how she has continued to...

This year, English graduate students Rachel Arteaga and A.J. Burgin have organized Teaching with Technology, a Graduate Interest Group (GIG) at the Simpson Center, so that graduate instructors can share ideas with one another. The group provides a platform for...