Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Society of Scholars Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2026-2027 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent funding round.
Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
Society of Scholars Fellowships
Vanessa Freije (Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies)
A Signal in Every Corner of the Country: Connecting Mexico in the Satellite Era
Michelle Habell-Pallán (Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Chicanxfuturisms: Punk’s “Algo Rhythm” and the Sonic Practices of Convivencia and Cultural Citizenship
Amelia Lehosit (PhD Candidate, English)
"For Not All Tears are an Evil": The Making of Consolation in Old English Lyric and Beyond
Annegret Oehme (Associate Professor, German Studies)
Between Friend and Foe: Monstrous Identities in Old Yiddish Epic and Romance
Chrystel Oloukoi (Assistant Professor, Geography)
Black Nocturnal: Ecologies of the Night in Lagos
Golden Owens (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Digital Maids in Domestic Spaces: Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ghosts of Black Women's Labor
Jonathan Radocay (Assistant Professor, English)
Stories in Severalty: Allotment and Indigenous Modernisms
Ilā Ravichandran (Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma)
BioCapture: Technoscientific, Legal and Cultural Assemblages of Molecular Carceral Control
Gian Rominger (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literature)
Aurality and the Search for Sound and Meaning in Early Chinese Texts
Morgan P. Vickers (Assistant Professor, Law, Societies & Justice)
Blackwater: Race, Waste, and Moral Ecologies of the Lowcountry Swamp
Chad Westra (PhD Candidate, History)
China in the Paper Age: An Ecological History of Paper Mechanization
Yumo Yan (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies)
Repurposing Cinema: Chinese Movie Theaters, Audiences, and Technologies, 1920s–2000s
Society of Scholars Summer Fellowships
Anandi Bandyopadhyay (PhD Candidate, History)
Contested Mobilities: Making of Bombay’s Transit System (1880-1947)
Laura Harris (PhD Candidate, Classics)
Virginitate frui: Charting Asexuality in Latin Poetry
Ishita Lahiri (PhD Candidate, English)
Reimagining Bad Work: Speculative Narratives and Labor in South Asia
Yandong Li (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies)
Energy Objects: A Media Genealogy of Environmental Futures
Sikose Mjali (PhD Candidate, English)
The Living Archive: Unsilencing: Sechaba (1967-1990) and the Voices of the African National Congress Underground
Martin Schwartz (PhD Candidate, German Studies)
Remediating the Rich Jew: Antisemitism in West German Theatre and Film
Collaborative Projects
Global Antiquities and Early Modernities Research Group
Rhema Hokama (Assistant Professor, English) and Beatrice Arduini (Associate Professor, French & Italian Studies)
In/Humanizing Generative AI in the Liberatory Landscapes of UWT
Tabitha Espina (Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma), Anaid Yerena (Associate Professor, School of Urban Studies) and Damiano Torre (Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology)
Latinx Studies Research Cluster
Alexandria Ramos (Assistant Professor, English) and Angélica Amezcua (Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies)
West Coast Working Group on the Jews of the Maghrib and Middle East
Liora Halperin (Professor, Jackson School of International Studies) and Canan Bolel (Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Languages & Culture)