Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces the recipients of our Summer Fellowship awards for 2026-2027 after receiving many strong proposals during our most recent funding round.
During the 2026 Winter Funding Round, the Simpson Center welcomed proposals for Faculty Summer Fellowships: New Approaches to Meet the Moment and for Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowships. We also accepted nominations for the 2027 Annual Digital Humanities Lecture. Meet the Moment fellowships support tenure-track faculty pursuing research projects that seek in some way – through their forms, methods, themes, arguments, or intended audiences – to meet our current historical moment. Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowships support tenure-track faculty and doctoral students pursuing research projects that use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the cultural, societal, and historical implications of digital technologies.
Congratulations to our award recipients and our warm thanks to all who applied.
Faculty Summer Fellowships: New Approaches to Meet the Moment
Naomi Macalalad Bragin (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
Grief Rituals
Purnima Dhavan (Associate Professor, History)
The Politics of Resilience: Environmental Change, Labor, and Precarity in the Upper Indus Valley, 1580-1720
Jelani Ince (Assistant Professor, Sociology)
Shepherds and Kings: How Philanthropy Stymies Diversity’s Potential
Erin McElroy (Associate Professor, Geography)
Technofeudal Fever Dreams: Silicon Fiefdoms, Doom Loop Dystopics, and the Urban Anxieties of Empire
Adair Rounthwaite (Professor, School of Art, Art History & Design)
The Right Aesthetics: Religion, Politics, and Contemporary Art
Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Image Capture: US-Mexico Border Apprehension and Immigrant Surveillance Abolition
Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowships
Mal Ahern (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies) and Jingrui Yan (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies)
An Encyclopedia of Media Toys
Ashfaq Ahmed (PhD Student, Jackson School of International Studies)
Petrified Wedding of the Himalayas: A Digital Archaeological Preservation Project of Ghora Gali Gool in Indian Occupied Kashmir
Andrew Hedding (Assistant Professor, Linguistics)
A Public Digital Archive of San Martín Peras Mixtec
Meichun Liu (Assistant Professor, Art, Art History & Design)
Touching Tacit Knowledge: Preserving the Embodied Practices of Artists through Tactile and Virtual Archives
Nikoloz Nadirashvili (PhD Student, Art, Art History & Design)
Blessed by the Feed: Digital Strategies of Neo-Soviet Religious Nationalism
Paul Jason Perez (PhD Student, Information School)
Digital Archive of Philippine Transnational Activism
Zhifan Sheng (PhD Student, Asian Languages & Literatures)
Enveloping Affect: The Epistolary Network of Early Chinese Feminism
Vanessa de Veritch Woodside (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma)
Latine/x Legacies in Tacoma and the South Puget Sound: An Interactive, Interdisciplinary, and Accessible Digital Platform