Reimagining the PhD Cohort
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In July 2015, the Simpson Center launched Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The conviction animating this initiative was that doctoral education, especially at a public university, must be guided by a capacious vision of its fundamental purpose: to contribute to the public good. From 2015-2021, the program prepared UW doctoral students in the humanities for this task by meaningfully connecting them to the diverse, access-oriented institutions of higher education in the Seattle District community colleges, and by supporting the development of both doctoral students’ public projects and publicly engaged graduate seminars taught by UW faculty in the humanities. Find out more about our programming below.
2017 - 2018 Scholars
![Brendan McElmeel stands on a rooftop wearing a dark shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Brendan%20McElmeel.jpg?itok=GOtoMCYE)
![Zhenzhen He-Weatherford wears glasses, a black shirt, and a pink cardigan.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/zhenzhen.jpg?itok=JvNtkDPw)
![Kristina Pilz wears a white shirt and black jacket while standing in front of a white wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Pilz.jpeg?itok=uXK_AITi)
![Kyle Kubler stands in front of a brick wall wearing a light jacket.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Kubler.jpeg?itok=1ohW8WnL)
![Guillaume Tourniaire stands in front of a blurred out doorway wearing a suit and tie.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Tourniaire.png?itok=wI5uAVu2)
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![Monica Cortés Viharo stands in front of a white wall wearing a turquoise colored shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Corte%CC%81s%20Viharo.png?itok=Gb0A_0xm)
![Lauren Drakopulos stands in front of a body of water while wearing a blue button up shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Lauren%20Drakopulos.jpeg?itok=x-jNTGBY)
![P. Joshua Griffin sits in front of a gray wall wearing glasses, a blue shirt, and a dark jacket.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/P.%20Joshua%20Griffin.jpeg?itok=eRFTxxuI)
![Portrait of Carmen Gonzalez wearing glasses and standing in front of trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Carmen%20Gonzalez.jpeg?itok=vzlWOG1_)
![Stephen Groening looking at a computer monitor](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Stephen-Groening.jpg?itok=aswdm9Ss)
![Portrait of Regina Yung Lee wearing glasses and sitting in front of a light wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/society_of_scholars_six_across_155x175_/public/people_profiles/Regina%20Yung%20Lee.jpeg?itok=NhKkTSbc)