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Inaugural Simpson Center Writer in Residence, Madison Snider (Communication) has published her first article, " The Vigilant Imagination of Abolition." The article is the first installment in a three-part series around this year's Keywords, a series that explores specialized, complicated...

2017-2018 Society of Scholars Fellow, Christian Lee Novetzke (The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for 2022. The fellowship supports Novetzke in completing his current...

The Simpson Center for the Humanities is excited to announce a new Collaboration Studio for 2022-2023: "Soft Data and Common Wares." The studio will feature a collaboration between the DXARTS Softlab (e-textiles and wearable technology lab run by Afroditi Psarra...

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our fellowship awards for 2022-2023 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent fall funding round. Generally speaking, the Simpson Center Executive Board makes...

"Is There a Persianate Modernity" originally planned to take place on Jan. 28, 2022 with mostly in-person with some hybrid elements, including virtual presentations from speakers. The symposium has chosen to move online, and in doing so is now open...

This summer the Simpson Center is piloting Second Book Fellowships , offering funding ($10,000 in salary) for associate professors to give intensive attention to second book manuscripts that are near completion during Summer 2022. The deadline is Friday, April 1...

The Constance M. Rourke Prize is awarded annually to the best article published in American Quarterly that was written by a current member of the American Studies Association. Sonnet Retman wins the 2021 award for her article, “Memphis Minnie’s ‘Scientific...

Call for applicants: The Artist Fellowship Program at the Henry Art Gallery invites you to apply to participate in a conversation and workshop series, Ritual: Form & Function in Scholarly and Artistic Practice, for the Winter and Spring Quarters of...

Two emerging programs at the University of Washington and supported by the Simpson Center, The Translation Studies Hub and Global Literary Studies (GLITS) offer cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. "Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?"...

The Graduate Research Clusters (GRCs) here at the Simpson Center have a variety of exciting events, meet and greets, and calls for papers in Fall 2021. The range of topics and forms promises to set up the full year for...

The Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) meeting returns to the University of Washington campus for the first time in 20 years. SHEL has been meeting biennially for two decades; it is the preeminent gathering in North...

Washington State promises high school students who chose to enroll in community colleges as part of its popular Running Start program a “true college experience.” According to the program’s fact sheet, issued by the State Board for Community and Technical...