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Why is it so difficult to have civil discussion in public about the Israel-Palestine conflict? A group of University of Washington faculty and students is studying this question as a research cluster sponsored this year by the Simpson Center for...

The threat of “cultural amnesia” drove Balsamo to help to build a digital version of the quilt.

The Teaching with Technology interest group brings together teaching assistants to explore how new technologies are changing the craft of teaching. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group draws graduate teaching assistants from varying experience levels and...

The Simpson Center welcomes two visiting scholars who are currently in residence: Shingo Nagaoka and Elizabeth Barry.

The Simpson Center announces a new four-year program—Reimagining the Humanities PhD—starting in July 2015, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. At this time of accelerating change in higher education, Reimagining the Humanities PhD addresses the...

The Walter Chapin Simpson Center mourns the passing of the visionary philanthropist Barclay Simpson on November 8, 2014. In honor of his memory, the Simpson Center announces the Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public.

Since 2007 WIRED (Women Investigating Race, Ethnicity, and Difference) has been active at the UW, involving approximately forty faculty from across all three campuses and representing the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences. The Simpson Center has funded this...

The Simpson Center congratulates Lance Rhoades and Shawn Wong, who are among those selected for the 2015-16 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau!

This spring the Simpson Center says good-bye to four graduating UW students. One student assistant, Ellie Stillwell, wrote the following reflection on her time at the Simpson Center.

Project management for digital scholarship. Environmental humanities. Islam and forgiveness. Ancient and modern democracy. Popular music studies and digital archive development. These are just a few of the subjects explored in recent short courses offered through the Simpson Center, which...

On behalf of the Simpson Center, Amanda Swain recently had the opportunity to talk with Sara Jo Breslow about how she has continued to practice public scholarship since completing her degree in Environmental Anthropology at UW.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities for UW undergraduates. An annual summer program, the Institute provides twenty competitively-selected students an opportunity to engage in primary interdisciplinary research under the guidance of...