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.

2021 - 2022 Scholars

A black and white close up portrait of Paul Tubig wearing glasses.
Assistant Professor
Philosophy, Georgia Southern University
Anna Bates stands in front of plants and wears a white shirt.
Doctoral Student
Department of Philosophy
Photo of Alec Fisher in front of a palm tree.
Doctoral Candidate
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Doctoral Candidate
English
A portrait of Anna Nguyen wearing glasses.
Doctoral Candidate
History
Profile of Madison Heslop standing in front of a dark background and wearing a dotted shirt.
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
Portrait of Anis Bawarshi sitting in front of a white brick wall.
Professor, Chair
Portrait of Charles LaPorte wearing glasses and standing in front of a tree.
Professor
Portrait of Linda Nash sitting in front of a bookcase.
Professor
Department of History
Portrait of Lynn Thomas wearing glasses and yellow dangle earrings.
Professor
History
Sara Goering professional photo smiling at the camera, blurred trees in the background, wearing a blue blazer, necklace, and hair pulled back
Professor
Philosophy
Portrait of Michael Blake wearing a suit and sitting outside.
Professor
Department of Philosophy

2017 - 2018 Reimagining the Humanities PhD Scholar

Lauren Drakopulos stands in front of a body of water while wearing a blue button up shirt.

Lauren Drakopulos (she/her/hers)

Postdoctoral Fellow

See Shanties: Carto-visual Narrative in Public Science

This is a collaborative story-mapping project done in partnership with the Washington Sea Grant. It is motivated by the following questions: 1) What can carto-visual narrative (storytelling through mapping) offer as a storytelling device in public science? 2) What stories are told by conservation organizations and how are they accountable to place? The digital map will be a public facing product depicting the Sea Grant’s marine outreach programs throughout the state while also telling the story of the environmental concerns those program seek to address. I will also conduct a discourse-analysis on the map content to understand how narratives in science communications are formed and how they produce social understanding of environmental issues.