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Congratulations to UW Professor Naomi Sokoloff (NELC/Comparative Literature), who, along with Washington University in St. Louis Professor Nancy Berg (Hebrew/Comparative Literature), won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award for their co-edited collection, What We Talk about When We Talk about...

As part of its fall events featuring researchers, activists, and artists whose practices and work are connected to translation, the Translation Studies Hub hosted a two-part talk on Nov. 22, 2019. Profs. José Alaniz (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)...

In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a new program directed at change in doctoral education. The projects to be funded by Next Generation Humanities PhD grants would bring humanities PhD programs into alignment with a true diversity...

This summer, the University of Washington was one of two schools, along with the University of Massachusetts, to host the pilot program of the Mellon Foundation-funded MLA Teaching Institute, aimed at strengthening the teaching of English at access-oriented institutions through...

Fifty-six people got up on a Saturday morning to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women . The event was March Madness, hosted by the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Graduate Research Cluster and held in the Research...

In anticipation of winter break, we asked Simpson Center-affiliated scholars and staff what books they’re excited to dig into once the end-of-the-quarter frenzy has wound down.

In mid-November, the Simpson Center sent three of its past fellows in digital humanities and public scholarship to the National Humanities Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Their panel, “Digital Public Humanities: Navigating Community and Identity in the 21st Century,” was designed...

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature Justin Jesty, whose book, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (Cornell), was recently awarded the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present's 2019 Book Prize. Art and Engagement...

To explain how her Culture, Art, and Technology class has managed to attract so many students at a STEM campus, the Translation Studies Hub invited Professor Amelia Glaser to give a talk on Oct. 29.

We're excited to announce the launch of our new video series, Keywords , in which Simpson Center-affiliated scholars introduce ideas central to their work by talking about keywords that are specialized, complicated, contentious, or ambiguous.In our first episode, Katz Distinguished...

Congratulations to Joy Ann Willisamson-Lott, whose book, Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order (Teachers College Press 2018), has been awarded the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ annual Frederic W. Ness Book...

On November 20, Joel Alden Schlosser will be giving a talk, “Politics is for the Dogs: Diogenes the Cynic and Political Refusal,” that emerges from his current work as a 2019-2020 CHCI-ACLS Visiting Fellow in Residence at the Simpson Center...