Established in 2021, in the midst of the global pandemic, the Faculty Summer Fellowship program at the Simpson Center for the Humanities has to date supported 45 faculty from all ranks and from across the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington. The fellowships offer targeted research support to UW tenure-track faculty as they complete scholarly projects along the promotional ladder within their academic departments.

The Simpson Center for the Humanities stands in support of the enduring and essential value of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Applications to the 2025 LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop will be accepted from January 1-April 1. The Simpson Center will cover the application fees of all UW doctoral students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who apply to the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop and the tuition costs of a small number of UW doctoral students accepted into the program, which will be held entirely online from June 23-July 25, 2025.

 The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2025-2026 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent funding round.

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In recognition of the challenges faced by early career tenure-track faculty, and in response to the very positive reception of our faculty summer fellowship program, the Simpson Center will offer support for First Books during the summer of 2025.

Shannon Cram is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. She was the recipient of the Simpson Center’s First Books Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2021.

During the summer of 2024, twenty undergraduate students at the University of Washington explored the poetics and politics of life in an intensive introduction to research methods in the arts and humanities.

Since its founding in 2019, the Translation Studies Hub (TS Hub), through the support of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, has served as a platform for discussion about the theories, histories, and practices of translation at the University of Washington and the broader Seattle community.

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Collaborative Project, Faculty Summer Reading, and Graduate Research Cluster awards for 2024-2025 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent funding round.

In the summer of 2024, the Simpson Center for the Humanities will support faculty fellowships with a thematic emphasis, convening a cohort of faculty actively working on research projects on religious cultures, sacred practices, and spiritual teachings. By gathering scholars together who are working on projects in potentially different disciplinary capacities, historical periods, and languages—to take just these examples—but who share a demonstrated interest in the designated theme, we hope to open new possibilities for deep and sustained crossdisciplinary discussion.