Identity and Culture | Simpson Center for the 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.

Articles

Suzallo and Allen Libraries Birdseye View with Quad

Call for Participants: Faculty Retirement Seminar

Higher Education, Humanities, UW Faculty, Identity and Culture

Katz Lectures

Kwame Anthony Appiah sits behind a desk with several books in front of him.

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

Identity and Culture, Cosmopolitanism

How to Write a DEI Statement in Only 50 Years

American Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies, Higher Education, Asian American, Identity and Culture

People

Portrait of Daniel Bessner in a blue shirt and glasses

Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B.

Identity and Culture, International Relations, Jewish Studies, Peace, Violence, and Security

Jade Power-Sotomayor (she/her/hers)

Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor engages embodied practices of remembering and creating community as a lens for theorizing performative constructions of Latinidad.

Cultural Studies, Dance, Identity and Culture, Latinx, Performance Studies

Habiba Ibrahim (she/her/hers)

I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. My scholarship is in African American Literary Studies of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Identity and Culture, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Race

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Hope Reidun St. John

Hope St. John is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology studying photographic practice in contemporary Qingdao.

Anthropology, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cosmopolitanism, Digital Humanities, Globalization, Identity and Culture, Urbanism, Visual Culture

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Ayda Apa Pomeshikov (she/her/hers)

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Immigration, Middle East, Peace, Violence, and Security, Religion, Social Justice

Close-up portrait of Gözde in black white. She is smiling at the camera with her hair parted to the side, half in front of her shoulder and on the other side behind her shoulder.

Gözde Burcu Ege

Burcu is in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Near and Middle East Studies.

Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Globalization, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Middle East, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Peace, Violence, and Security, Social Justice

Kaitlyn Boulding (she/her/hers)

Kaitlyn Boulding is a doctoral candidate in the department of Classics. Her dissertation research explores the relationships between craft, cosmological myth, festival cultures, the transmission of knowledge in Hesiod and Plato.

Art History, Design, Identity and Culture, Public Scholarship, Textual Studies, Visual Culture

Katia Chaterji (she/her/hers)

Katia Chaterji was a 2020 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with

Art History, Cultural Studies, Dance, Identity and Culture, Music, Performance Studies, Performing Arts, Religion

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Sarah Choi (she/her/hers)

Sarah Choi is 2022-2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow.

Cinema, Digital Humanities, Feminisms, Identity and Culture, Race, Technology, Visual Culture

Lise Lalonde wears a striped shirt while standing in front of a white wall.

Lise Lalonde (she/her/hers)

Lise Lalonde's doctoral work in French Studies from the University of Washington focused on issues of equity and social justice, particularly on the role of race in the construction of French identity.

French & Italian Studies, Identity and Culture, Race

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Ariana Ochoa Camacho (she/her/hers)

Ariana Ochoa Camacho is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Identity and Culture, Latinx

Julie stands in natural light smiling brightly. A thick white woman with a shaved head, she wears a black top and cardigan and large silver and black earrings. Behind her is a cream-colored wall with the framed edges of art pieces hung on each side of her.

Julie Stoverink

Julie Stoverink acts as the chief financial officer for the Simpson Center. She works closely with the faculty Director, Simpson Center staff, and CAS administrative team to steward the Center’s diverse financial portfolio, including budget development, revenue forecasting, fin

Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, GWSS, Identity and Culture, Performance Studies, Performing Arts, Poetry, Queer Studies, Social Justice

Picture of Sarah Levin-Richardson standing in front of a beige wall wearing glasses, a blazer, and a black shirt.

Sarah Levin-Richardson (she/her/hers)

Sarah Levin-Richardson explores ancient Roman slavery and sexuality at the intersection of material culture and social history, with a 2019 book on Pompeii’s brothel (The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society), and a new monograph project called T

Affect Studies, Classics, Creative Writing, History, Identity and Culture

Caitlin Earley (she/her/hers)

Caitlin Earley is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on ancient Maya sculpture, with a particular interest in how sculpture constructs and negotiates identities at the margins of the Maya world.

Art, Identity and Culture