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Simpson Center News

Announcing the Spring Funding Award Recipients

Monday, June 21, 2021

The Simpson Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce our funding awards for 2021-2022 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during the spring funding round. Thirteen Graduate...

Perspectives from Two International Students at Shoreline Community College: An Interview with Maral Atayeva and Yara Musad (Class of 2021)

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

As 2020-21 Collaborative Mellon Fellows for Reaching New Publics, we are invested in learning how higher education institutions can better meet the evolving needs of a diverse student body, and in identifying what institutional supports exist to...

Full Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series Now Available

Monday, June 7, 2021

At the end of this extraordinary academic year, we are delighted to announce that the full webinar series of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South is now available online.

Announcing the 2021/2022 Katz Distinguished Lecturers: Catherine Cole, Ato Quayson, and Abderrahmane Sissako

Thursday, June 3, 2021

The 2021/2022 Katz Distinguished Lectures will feature three speakers whose lectures will focus on thinking Africa beyond the confines of the continent. Lectures topics will include African arts and the afterlives of injustice, cosmopolitanism and...

James Gregory’s Research on Redlining Prompts New Washington Bill on Racist Property Covenants

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

In 2005, James Gregory (History) began research into racial discrimination in housing covenants with support from the Simpson Center. Within a year, the project findings led to a law, passed by the Washington State legislature, that enables...

Striving for Interdisciplinarity: Collaborations Amongst Professionals and Across Institutions in Integrated Studies

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

A few years ago, dance scholar Dr. Ratna Roy (Ratna mashi, as I called her in dance practice) told me that she was co-teaching a class with a brain scientist at Evergreen College, and I swallowed my gulp of water a little too fast. Imagining a...

Announcing the Recipients of First Book Fellowships & Faculty Reading Groups

Monday, May 10, 2021

Given the challenges faculty face in the pandemic, the Simpson Center is pleased to pilot support in two categories in Summer 2021: First Book Fellowships and Faculty Summer Reading Groups. Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks...

Transcultural Approaches to Europe Hosts Miriam Yung Min Stein

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Miriam Stein will discuss her book Berlin–Seoul–Berlin (2008), a literary memoir about a Korean-German adoptee’s first trip to her native South Korea since her birth there in the spring of 1977.