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When I first encountered the concept of Guided Pathways in the community college context, it seemed familiar. As it was explained to me, Guided Pathways is a reform that aims to place students on a “pathway” of predetermined courses, instead...
On May 15, Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal marked its move to the University of Washington with an online workshop on affect attended by more than 200 people from around the world. Initially designed as a two-day celebration of...
Welcome to Virtual Pedagogies, a regular series in which we ask UW faculty to share their experiences with a particular aspect of teaching online. While there have been a lot of resources that walk through the technicalities of remote teaching...
Denise Grollmus, Simpson Center Communications Manager, was recently awarded the Heilman Dissertation Prize, which recognizes the most distinguished dissertation in the Department of English annually.
Associate Professor of Anthropology Radhika Govindrajan was recently awarded a 2020 ACLS Fellowship for her project, "More-Than-Human Democracy in Himalayan India." Govindrajan's project will explore the granting of legal personhood to bodies of water in India. From the ACLS website...
In this first installment of the series Virtual Pedagogies, Simpson Center-affiliated scholars share what activities, approaches, and assignments they are using in their remote classrooms that they wouldn't have been able to use in traditional classrooms.
South Seattle Community College (SSC) sits just north of the Riverside neighborhood in West Seattle. As a new Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics in Community Colleges, I rode my bike to SSC to attend Larry Cushnie’s American Government class...
Simpson Center Assistant Director Rachel Arteaga writes about Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave, a memoir about grief on a catastrophic scale.
Denise Grollmus speaks with Eva Cherniavsky about how her work might help us think through the peril, politics, and possibilities of Covid-19.
Dr. Anu Taranath's (CHID and English) book Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World was selected as a Finalist for both the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award and the UK's Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, recently published her article, “Singing the Revolution: India’s Anti-CAA Protests and Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge.'"
Sarah Levin-Richardson, Assistant Professor of Classics, was recently interviewed about her new book, The Brothel of Pompeii (Cambridge UP, 2019), in Notches, a peer-reviewed, collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the...