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Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
An interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students examine the tangle of capitalism and race since the origins of European colonialism.
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Call for Nominations: Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public
Thursday, January 12, 2017
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities invites nominations of University of Washington faculty members for the Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public.
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Announcing First Round of Funding Awards for 2017-18
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
The Simpson Center Executive Board has made its first round of funding awards for 2017-18 after receiving many strong proposals from UW faculty, graduate students, and staff. Congratulations to our recipients!
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Inside Higher Ed Features Arteaga on Doctoral Partnerships at Two-Year Colleges
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Rachel Arteaga has written an article for Inside Higher Ed about new partnerships between two-year colleges and doctoral programs in the humanities.
Nash Receives $50,000 NEH Grant for Environmental History of American Engineering
Monday, December 19, 2016
Linda Nash (History) has received a $50,400 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research into how Americans’ approach to postwar development was shaped by the nation’s abundant resources and its history of settler colonialism in...
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A Story of Liberation Preserved in LGBTQ History Project
Monday, November 28, 2016
New website chronicles activists who made Seattle a national pioneer for gay rights.
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David Shields: The Novel Is Dead; Long Live the Anti-Novel - Nov. 15
Monday, October 24, 2016
The bestselling author and UW Professor of English delivers a provocative argument for "evolution beyond narrative" in a Katz Distinguished Lecture, 7 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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Ethnography Unbound: Experiments in New Scholarship
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Sasha Su-Ling Welland curates a series of creative projects pushing past the limits of traditional academic writing.
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Rewriting the Narrative of Success for Humanities PhDs
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Bringing philosophy to children and shaking up attitudes toward study-abroad trips, UW graduate students are broadening the notion of successful scholarship.
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Why We Don’t Have Wings
Monday, September 26, 2016
Historian Phillip Thurtle draws on genetics, comics, film, and a vast array of cultural mythology to probe a question that haunts our collective past.

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