Simpson Center News

Announcing Funding Awards for 2017-18

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces its funding awards for the upcoming year.

In Defense of the Search Engine

Monday, June 5, 2017

Google isn’t making us stupid, it’s opening a gold mine for scholars with the right tools, Daniel Shore argues.

Michelle Habell-Pallán Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public

Thursday, April 27, 2017

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that create new forms of scholarship.

Bachman Creates Suzzallo Library Exhibit on ‘Bollywood and Bolsheviks’

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Doctoral student Jessica Bachman (History) has created a new exhibit based on her work as a Mellon Summer Fellow for Public Projects in the Humanities.

Global Indigeneities Institute Leads to NSF and Post-Doc Fellowships

Monday, April 17, 2017

Two participants in last year’s Summer Institute in Global Indigeneities (SIGI) have landed prestigious fellowships that they credit, in part, to the inaugural institute at the UW.

Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’

Friday, April 7, 2017

A uniquely collaborative research team unpacks a widely used but rarely scrutinized term in global health.

The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding Health Care

Monday, April 3, 2017

The rise of crowdfunding on sites like GoFundMe reflects—and potentially worsens—inequities already at play in US health care, according to new research.

Lobbying for the Humanities in Washington, DC

Friday, March 17, 2017

The Simpson Center’s Andy Nestingen and Jon Hiskes spoke with Washington state’s Congressional offices about the life-changing power of humanities and language funding.

Lorraine Daston on Algorithms Before Computers - April 19

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Celebrated historian of science Lorraine Daston delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture at 7 pm, Wednesday, April 19 in Kane Hall 210.

Chapbook Recaps Translational Poetics Symposium

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Essay Press has published a new chapbook based on a January 2016 symposium on translational poetics organized by Affect & Audience in the Digital Age.