Social Justice | Simpson Center for the Humanities

Projects

Indigenous Borderlands in North America: Borders, Crossings, Histories, and Futures

Environmental Humanities, Social Justice

Activating the Third University: A Worlds of Difference Initiative

Colonialism, Globalization, Higher Education, International Relations, Postcolonialism

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Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below

Digital Humanities, Global South, Science & Technology Studies, Social Justice

Articles

Black and white photo of protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baltimore, Maryland. Protester in the middle holds a sign that reads, "Unite Here!"

Mapping American Radicalism with Historian James Gregory (Video)

Digital Humanities, History, Seattle, Social Justice, UW Faculty

Portion of abandoned RH Thomson Expressway project, partly covered in ivy

Minda Martin Film ‘Ramps to Nowhere’ Premieres at Northwest Film Forum

Social Justice, Seattle, History, Cultural Studies

Joy Ann Williamson-Lott's Jim Crow Campus Receives the AAC&U 2020 Frederic W. Ness Book Award

Black Studies, Social Justice, History, UW Faculty

Close-up showing toy tank with text of "Hum Dekhenge"

Jennifer Dubrow’s New Article Explores the Power of Urdu Poetry and Political Protest

Poetry, Asian Languages & Literature, Social Justice

Fram Kitagawa, Socially Engaged Art in Japan: Questions for Contemporary Policy and Practice

Prominent Japanese Artist Denied Entry to US for UW Art Conference

Social Justice, Art History, Japan

Research Spotlight

UW Faculty, Social Justice, Humanities, Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Protesters participating n the Seattle Youth Protest sit in the intersection outside the Seattle Police Department. One protester holds a sign reading, "Justice 4 Breonna Taylor"

Crisis Pedagogy

Pedagogy, Social Justice, Neoliberalism, Graduate Education

The Classroom Is a Public Forum

Social Justice, Community Colleges, Pedagogy

Cover of Time Magazine's special issue on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Michael Honey Examines MLK's Legacy of Economic Justice in his latest book, film, and in Time Magazine

Public Scholarship, History, Social Justice, Black Studies

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Call For Proposals: Social Justice Pedagogies

Race, Pedagogy, Social Justice

People

Portrait of Dan Berger leaning against a brick wall

Dan Berger (he/him/his)

Dan Berger is associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. His research and teaching focus on histories of the carceral state and US social movements.

American Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Prison Studies, Race, Social Justice, Systemic Racism

Michelle Habell-Pallán (she/her/hers)

Michelle Habell-Pallán was promoted to full Professor in the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Department in Fall 2018. She is an adjunct Professor in Communication and the School of Music.

Chicanx, Digital Humanities, Ethnicity, GWSS, Latinx, Music, Performance Studies, Public Scholarship, Social Justice

Megan Ybarra (she/her/hers)

Megan Ybarra is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Environment, Immigration, Latinx, Prison Studies, Public Scholarship, Race, Social Justice

alma khasawnih was a 2017-2018 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics. alma researches access to the street in post-colonial and settler-colonial nation-states as a site of understanding and articulating access to citizenship.

Digital Humanities, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonialism, Queer Studies, Social Justice, Visual Culture

Tad Hirsch (he/him/his)

Tad Hirsch is Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University, where he conducts research and creative practice at the intersection of design, engineering, and social justice.

Design, Digital Humanities, Social Justice, Technology

Shuxuan Zhou (she/her/hers)

China, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, GWSS, Social Justice

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C.R. Grimmer (she/they)

C. R. Grimmer is a poet and scholar from Southeast Michigan's Metro-Detroit area. C. R. received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW) as well as their M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A.

Capitalism, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry, Public Scholarship, Race, Social Justice

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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

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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

A portrait of Raphaëlle Rabanes wearing a grey jacket.

Raphaëlle Rabanes (she/her/hers)

Raphaëlle Rabanes is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fewllo. She is an assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington Seattle.

Anthropology, Black Studies, Disability Studies, Postcolonialism, Social Justice

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Justin Randolph (he/him/his)

Justin Randolph is Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. An ACLS Fellow for academic year 2022-2023, he joins the Simpson Center to finish his first book on policing and resistance in rural America.

Prison Studies, Public Scholarship, Race, Social Justice, Systemic Racism

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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