PinnedPublic Scholar Profile: Jasmine MahmoudAn Interview by 2022–2023 Writer-in-Residence Nanya JhingranJul 11, 2023Jul 11, 2023
PinnedThe Sound Collaboratory: Building Relational Infrastructure for Radical Sound Practiceby Nanya JhingranApr 6, 2023Apr 6, 2023
The Vigilant Imagination of Abolitionby Madison Snider, Simpson Center 2021–2022 Writer in ResidenceFeb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022
Humanities Research at the Leading Edge of ChangeA look at the Simpson Center’s Next Generation Humanities PhD Special InitiativeJan 3, 2020Jan 3, 2020
Interrupting PrivilegeUW Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph Is Teaching People to Talk About Race Across Generational and Racial LinesJun 6, 2019Jun 6, 2019
Unsettling Graduate Education: American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the UWOn the eve of the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies’ first year, we take a look back at how faculty and graduate students…May 13, 2019May 13, 2019
Gillian Harkins Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Prison Education WorkOver the past decade, UW Professor of English Gillian Harkins has facilitated a number of projects that center currently and formerly…Apr 2, 2019Apr 2, 2019
Unearthing Seattle’s Deeper Histories through Art and HumanitiesStudents expose layers hidden beneath the city’s staggering wealth, using “dark tourism” to find reasons for protest and celebration —…Sep 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018
Ethnography of a Surveillance StateAnthropologist Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.Jun 5, 2018Jun 5, 2018
Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar LiberiaAnthropologist Danny Hoffman photographs urban forms to show how our lives are shaped by the spaces we inhabit.May 17, 2018May 17, 2018
Stopping Infectious Disease Requires ‘Staff, Space, Stuff, and Systems,’ Paul Farmer Argues (With…The Partners in Health founder draws on history, anthropology, and clinical field work in a series of conversations with UW scholars about…Feb 20, 2018Feb 20, 2018
Medical Crowdfunding Researchers Draw Widespread Media AttentionJournalists turn to UW’s Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy to understand the rise of crowdfunding campaigns for health care costs.Feb 13, 2018Feb 13, 2018
A Journey to the Center of the AnthropoceneScholars track hidden stories at the birthplace of a geologic era.Nov 15, 2017Nov 15, 2017
In Defense of the Search EngineGoogle isn’t making us stupid, it’s opening a gold mine for scholars with the right tools, Daniel Shore argues.Jun 5, 2017Jun 5, 2017
Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’A uniquely collaborative research team unpacks a widely used but rarely scrutinized term in global health.Apr 7, 2017Apr 7, 2017
The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding Health CareThe rise of crowdfunding on sites like GoFundMe reflects — and potentially worsens — inequities already at play in US health care…Apr 3, 2017Apr 3, 2017
From Chicana Punk Rock, Habell-Pallán Forges a Vision for Public ScholarshipThe new director of the Certificate in Public Scholarship draws on the cultural ferment among musicians, scholars, and communities.Jan 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017
Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar GrantAn interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students examine the tangle of capitalism and race since the origins of European…Jan 17, 2017Jan 17, 2017