Humanities

Projects

Felted Swan by Pazyryk Culture. 5th - 4th century BCE. Shades of blue in the background with a swan made of felt in the foreground.

Textile Studies

Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Humanities, Identity and Culture, Technology
Art of black and pink neurons spiraling on a yellow background.

CHIME

Health Humanities, Humanities, Medical Sciences, Pedagogy
Eighteenth-century painting depicting a young girl wearing a yellow dress reading.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (18/19)

18th Century, 19th Century, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Research
Close-up of cursive writing on paper

Writing Difference and Equity

Communication, Composition Studies, Doctoral Education, Graduate Education, Humanities
birds-eye view of the Suzallo and Allen Libraries with the brick-laid quad in the middle. It is a sunny day morning with light clouds in the sky.

Faculty Retirement Seminar

Higher Education, Humanities, Identity and Culture, UW Faculty
Logo of the South Asian Conference of the Pacific Northwest.

The Intellectual Chimera of South Asia

Humanities, Sociology, South Asia
Engraving from the Durán Codex of Hernán Cortés, a large boat, and the Indian Marina.

Troubling Translations

Humanities, Translation Studies
A black and white image of a Javanese outrigger canoe.

The Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations

Anthropocene, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Environment, Humanities
Background is a picture of a tree trunk, with Next Generation Humanities PhD and #PhilosophyBranchesOut written in the foreground.

Philosophy Branches Out

Humanities, Philosophy, Public Scholarship
Photo of the acrylic and embroidery artwork named Assaulting the Eye with Ecstasy by Pacita Abad.

Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies

Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Humanities
An image of hazy mountains with the text "Sinophone Public Scholarship" centered in white.

Sinophone Public Scholarship

Humanities, Public Scholarship
Grandfather clock on rocky surface of alien planet

Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics

Ethics, Humanities

Articles

Rachel Arteaga

Alt-Ac Retrospective

Humanities, Current Events
side portrait of Gillian Harkins in front of a blackboard

Gillian Harkins Creates Seminar on Public Scholarship as Means and Ends

Humanities, Prison Studies
The longhouse at UBC.

The Simpson Center Goes to HASTAC 2019

Digital Humanities, Humanities, American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Logo of Humanities Without Walls

ethan ucker Awarded Humanities Without Walls Fellowship

Awards, Humanities, Public Scholarship
Shawn Wong speaks in front of whiteboard

UW Scholars Go Public Through Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau

Public Scholarship, Humanities
Time Brown

Tim Brown Awarded Humanities Without Walls Fellowship

UW Faculty, Philosophy, Humanities
Angela Durán Real and Asha Esterberg Tran.

Angela Durán Real Surveys Study-Abroad Attitudes at Two-Year College

Public Scholarship, Humanities
WIRED members hold a meeting.

Research Spotlight

UW Faculty, Social Justice, Humanities, Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract image of white ghost-like figures framing the outline of a person on a dark background.

Reflections on the Humanities PhD

Graduate Education, Humanities
Rachel Arteaga looks into the camera wearing a blue shirt and dark blazer against a gray background.

Scholarship and Public Engagement Can Be a Both/And Situation

Graduate Education, Humanities
President Lyndon Johnson sits at a desk and signs a document while people in suits stand around him.

In Praise of the Welder-Philosopher

Humanities, History, 21st Century
An image of the definition of HASTAC, a consortium of humanists artists social scientists scientists and engineers committed to new forms of collaboration

Announcing the UW's 2013-14 HASTAC Scholars

Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Humanities
Suzallo and Allen Libraries Birdseye View with Quad

Call for Participants: Faculty Retirement Seminar

Higher Education, Humanities, UW Faculty, Identity and Culture
A split image with Kaelie Giffel on the left wearing a dark jacket and standing in front of a body of water and Caitlin Postal on the right in a white shirt standing in front of an orange wall.

Individualized Development Plans

Doctoral Education, Humanities
Bre’Anna Girdy presents her work at the 2019 SIAH Worlds in Progress Exhibit. Izabel Del Bosque presents her work at the 2019 SIAH Worlds in Progress Exhibit.

Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities: 2023 Theme, Faculty, and Call for Applicants

Undergraduate Education, Black Studies, Interdisciplinary Research, Humanities, Higher Education

Katz Lectures

Doris Sommer stands with her arms crossed in front of a painting.

Ripple Effects: The Work of Art in the World

Art, Humanities

People

Portrait of Brian Reed

Brian Reed (he/him/his)

I am the Divisional Dean of Humanities and the Milliman Endowed Chair of Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Poetry, Translation Studies
Caitlin looking sideways at the camera. She has long red hair and is wearing a white t-shirt

Caitlin Postal (she/her/hers)

Caitlin Postal earned her doctorate from the Department of English in 2022, where she studied Middle English literature and medieval material culture.

14th Century, Art History, Digital Humanities, History, Humanities, Literary Studies, Medieval
Matthew Childs sits outside on a hill overlooking a body of water.

Matthew Childs (he/him/his)

Matthew Childs is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German Studies. He joined the department in 2015 after receiving his M.A. in German and B.A. in German and Classical Civilizations at Florida State University.

19th Century, German Studies, History, Humanities, Literary Studies
Andreas P. Bassett stands in front of a large shrubbery while wearing a dark jacket blue shirt and tie.

Andreas P. Bassett (he/him/his)

Andreas P. Bassett is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where he studies early modern literature and book history.

16th Century, 17th Century, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Pedagogy, Textual Studies
Sarah Moore stands outside while wearing a read cardigan and white shirt.

Sarah Nickel Moore (she/her/hers)

Sarah Moore is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, where she studies late medieval romance and early modern drama.

16th Century, 17th Century, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Pedagogy, Textual Studies
A profile picture of Kelly, a young woman with white skin and big brown curly hair, wearing a white collared shirt and smiling, with a blue to purple gradient background with glitter sparkles.

Kelly Clemen (she/they)

Kelly Clemen is constantly dreaming of other worlds, if not reading, watching, writing, or trying to live them out in the world.

Feminisms, Humanities, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship