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Simpson Center News

Meshell Sturgis Awarded a 2021 AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

Monday, January 11, 2021

Meshell Sturgis, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication and 2019 Mellon Summer Fellow for Public Projects in the Humanities, was selected as a 2021 recipient for the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award by AAC&U.

Beyond Pensions: The Faculty Retirement Seminar Offers Community and Support to Professors in (and Thinking About) Retirement

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Judy Howard and Míċeál Vaughan both know that retiring from academia is a fraught enterprise: “While retirement is typically a life-changing event for almost everyone, for faculty especially it raises fundamental questions about what it means t

Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Come join our tri-campus online writing group for trans faculty, staff, and graduate students who work across the University of Washington system as part of the Imagining Trans Futures

Cristian Capotescu Named the 2020-21 Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms Postdoctoral Fellow

Monday, August 31, 2020

The Simpson Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce that Cristian Capotescu has joined the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on

2020-2021 Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities

Friday, August 28, 2020

This year's Katz line-up features four speakers whose lectures will focus on everything from prison abolition and the influence of Silicon Valley on American Politics to African filmmaking and aesthetics.

2020 Fall Funding Round Application Deadline: November 6, 2020

Thursday, August 27, 2020

This year’s Fall Funding Round opens on October 5. Funding covers the term July 2021-June 2022. The deadline for all Fall Funding Round applications is Friday, November 6.