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Meshell Sturgis

Meshell Sturgis Awarded a 2021 AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

Communication, Awards

Denise Grollmus

Denise Grollmus Awarded Heilman Dissertation Prize

Awards, Religion, Language and Literature, Health Humanities

Jenna Grant

Jenna Grant Awarded Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Seed Grant

Anthropology, Public Scholarship, Immigration, Awards

Sam Sumpter

Sam Sumpter Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities

Trans Studies, Awards, Philosophy

Lily Shapiro

Lily Shapiro Receives Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Medical Anthropology Research in India

Awards, Anthropology, Public Health, Health Humanities

Sareeta Amrute

Sareeta Amrute Awarded for Ethnography of Indian IT Workers in Berlin

Awards, Anthropology, Race, Immigration

Priti Ramamurthy

Priti Ramamurthy Awarded Fulbright to Study Informal Economies in India

Awards, Feminisms, Globalization

Liina-Ly Roos

Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities

Awards, Scandinavian Studies, Language and Literature, Cinema

Haicheng Wang

Haicheng Wang Receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship to Study Chinese Bells

Art History, Awards, Music

Leanne Day

Global Indigeneities Institute Leads to NSF and Post-Doc Fellowships

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Awards

Christina Sunardi

Sunardi Wins Award for Book on Gender and Tradition in Javanese Dance

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dance, Awards

Illuminated globe

Scholars at Work

Awards, Digital Humanities, Public Scholarship

Kemi Adeyemi and La TaSha Levy

Professors Kemi Adeyemi (GWSS) and La TaSha Levy (AES) Awarded Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowships

Row of chairs.

2021-2022 Fellowships

Awards, Barclay Simpson Award

Ruth Moon

Ruth Moon Receives Four Fellowships to Study Journalism in Rwanda

Awards, Communication, Africa Studies

Justin Jesty and an image of his book, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan.

Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan Awarded the ASAP 2019 Book Prize

Cover of American Sabor.

American Sabor wins Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence

Awards, Latinx, Barclay Simpson Award, Public Scholarship

Catherine M. Connors

Catherine M. Connors Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

Anthony Geist

Anthony Geist Awarded Knighthood by Spain

Language and Literature, Awards, UW Faculty

Radhika Govindrajan

Radhika Govindrajan Awarded 2020 ACLS Fellowship

Democracy, UW Faculty, Awards

Doctoral Candidates in Political Science Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

ethan ucker Awarded Humanities Without Walls Fellowship

Awards, Humanities, Public Scholarship

Michael Aguirre

Michael Aguirre Receives Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellowship

Awards, Public Scholarship, History

Christian Novetzke

Christian Novetzke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Study Devotionalism and Political Ethics in India

Awards, UW Faculty

Four South Asian men in the 1930s wearing fezzes and sherwanis

William Bamber Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

South Asia, Cultural Studies, Awards

Jesse Oak Taylor

Jesse Oak Taylor Wins Ecocriticism Book Prize

Awards, UW Faculty

James Tweedie

James Tweedie Awarded by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Awards, UW Faculty

Rachel Taylor

Rachel Lanier Taylor Appointed by Society for History in the Federal Government

Awards, History

Cover of American Sabor.

'American Sabor' Bilingual Book Chronicles Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music

Awards, Latinx, Barclay Simpson Award, Public Scholarship

Jane Wong

Poetry Collection, Prize, and Visiting Professorship for Jane Wong

Abstract black and white design.

Katharyne Mitchell and Rajesh Rao Receive Guggenheim Fellowships

UW Faculty, Awards

Suhanthie Motha

Suhanthie Motha Wins Book Award for Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching

UW Faculty, Pedagogy, Awards

Katharyne Mitchell (Geography), left, and Matthew Sparke (Geography and Jackson School of International Studies).

Mitchell and Sparke Receive Fellowships to Study Biological Citizenship in Switzerland

UW Faculty, Awards

Ralina Joseph

Ralina Joseph Awarded Inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship

UW Faculty, Awards

Seattle's Gas Works Park, image courtesy of Curtis Cronn.

NEH Awards $179,000 for Urban-Nature Summer Institute at UW

Awards, Anthropocene, Environmental Humanities, Urbanism

Barclay Simpson

Call for Nominations

UW Faculty, Barclay Simpson Award, Awards

Books standing in a row.

Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics

Public Scholarship, Awards, Doctoral Education

Portrait of James Tweedie

James Tweedie Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Portrait of Cristian Capotescu wearing a dark blue long sleeved shirt and sitting on a bed in front of a brick wall.

Cristian Capotescu Named the 2020-21 Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms Postdoctoral Fellow

Global South, Awards

Image of the cover of Naomi Sokoloff's book with the title written in blue and black across a background of tiles with Hebrew letters on them.

Naomi Sokoloff's co-edited volume wins the National Jewish Book Award

Painting of 18th century singer and poet Bani-thani

Heidi Pauwels awarded NEH fellowship

Awards, Asian Languages & Literature, India

sonnet retman

Sonnet Retman from "Sound Practices" Wins Publication Award

Race, Music, Awards, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Scrabble tiles spelling out "Funding"

Summer 2022 Funding Opportunities for UW Faculty!

Christian Novetzke in glasses, a grey suit, and a print colored shirt. He is standing next to a line of books on shelves.

Novetzke Receives National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship

Awards, South Asia, Poetry, Religion, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Row of Empty Simpson Center Conference Chairs

Announcing the Spring 2022 Funding Round Recipients

entrance to the national humanities center, which is a white, modern building with angled ceiling windows and a brick courtyard entrance surrounded by green trees and bushes

Upcoming Major External Fellowship Deadlines

National Endowment for the Humanities in large text next to a seal with its title and the American eagle in the center

Congratulations 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awardees

Row of empty chairs

Announcing Fall Funding Round Recipients

Row of chairs

Announcing the Spring 2023 Funding Round Award Recipients

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