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Embracing and Equipping Transfer Students at the University of Washington
Monday, April 12, 2021
by Rebecca Taylor Apr. 12, 2021 Every transfer story is different.
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2021-2022 Fellowships
Thursday, April 8, 2021
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our fellowship awards for 2021-2022 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent fall funding round. We expect to make an...
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"Art at the Borders of the Political" Features Visiting Anthropologist & Filmmaker Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Art at the Borders' next guest, Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Brandeis University) will be offering two events open to the public. The first is a screening & discussion, and the second a visual Anthropology workshop. Read more below about these...
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Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New
Thursday, March 25, 2021
"Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New": a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at UW.
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Funding Categories Open for Spring Application
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Funding Categories Open for Spring Application
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Spring Mellon Sawyer Seminar Launches Apr. 1 with Sinan Antoon
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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NEW Summer Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Monday, January 25, 2021
Given the challenges faculty face in the pandemic, the Simpson Center will pilot support in two categories: First Book Fellowships and
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

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