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Catherine M. Connors (Classics) has received a Distinguished Teaching Award as part of the University of Washington’s annual Awards of Excellence.

AmazonCrossing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, has quickly become one of the most influential forces in translated literature, publishing more books in English translation than any other publisher in 2014.

Angela Durán Real (Spanish & Portuguese) has conducted an innovative survey on attitudes toward study-abroad programs at South Seattle College. She worked with Asha Esterberg Tran, her faculty mentor at South Seattle, with whom she was paired through the Simpson...

Two Simpson Center collaborators have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, which will allow them to pursue creative and scholarly projects over the coming year. Katharyne Mitchell (Geography) has received a fellowship for her research on sanctuary practices for asylum...

Historian Stephanie Coontz challenges young scholars to explain their work to an audience more demanding than dissertation advisers or hiring committees: a 13-year-old niece or nephew.

Anthony Geist (Spanish and Comparative Literature) has been awarded knighthood by Spain, one of the nation’s highest civil honors.

Michael Blake (Philosophy and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance) has been awarded a summer fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study justice, migration, and mercy. The $6,000 award supports his book-length study on the...

Tad Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington, wrote a script to pull every image tagged with “#AR15” on Instagram. He then arranged the images in a digital mosaic titled “A Well-Regulated Militia,” first displayed at...

Longtime Simpson Center collaborator Vicente L. Rafael (History) has published a new book with Duke University Press, Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (2016).

Across the country, doctoral education in the humanities is being reimagined in multiple ways. From graduate seminars to dissertation formats, and from professional development to diverse career trajectories, programs around the United States are inventing new models for advanced study...

The Simpson Center for the Humanities welcomes visiting scholar Lisa Samuels, who is in residence January through June 2016. Samuels has published thirteen books of poetry and prose, with recent experiments in memoir ( Anti M, 2013) and the novel...

Adam D. Moore (Information School) has edited a new book analyzing the moral and legal foundations of privacy, security, and accountability, drawing on participants from a 2013 conference sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.