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Public Scholar Profile: Jasmine Mahmoud

An Interview by 2022–2023 Writer-in-Residence Nanya Jhingran

Jul 11, 2023

Jul 11, 2023

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The Sound Collaboratory: Building Relational Infrastructure for Radical Sound Practice

by Nanya Jhingran

Apr 6, 2023

Dimly lit room with a spotlight on three bandmates in red chairs being interviewed.

Apr 6, 2023

The Parking lot, The Power Line, and the Home

by Madison Snider

Jun 2, 2022

The Parking lot, The Power Line, and the Home

Jun 2, 2022

Crafting Community

The Textile Studies Graduate Research Cluster

Feb 24, 2022

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Feb 24, 2022

The Vigilant Imagination of Abolition

by Madison Snider, Simpson Center 2021–2022 Writer in Residence

Feb 11, 2022

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Feb 11, 2022

Humanities Research at the Leading Edge of Change

A look at the Simpson Center’s Next Generation Humanities PhD Special Initiative

Jan 3, 2020

Humanities Research at the Leading Edge of Change

Jan 3, 2020

Interrupting Privilege

UW Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph Is Teaching People to Talk About Race Across Generational and Racial Lines

Jun 6, 2019

Interrupting Privilege

Jun 6, 2019

Unsettling Graduate Education: American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the UW

On 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, 2019

Unsettling Graduate Education: American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the UW

May 13, 2019

Gillian Harkins Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Prison Education Work

Over the past decade, UW Professor of English Gillian Harkins has facilitated a number of projects that center currently and formerly…

Apr 2, 2019

Gillian Harkins Awarded Barclay Simpson Prize for Prison Education Work

Apr 2, 2019

Unearthing Seattle’s Deeper Histories through Art and Humanities

Students expose layers hidden beneath the city’s staggering wealth, using “dark tourism” to find reasons for protest and celebration —…

Sep 25, 2018

Unearthing Seattle’s Deeper Histories through Art and Humanities

Sep 25, 2018

Ethnography of a Surveillance State

Anthropologist Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.

Jun 5, 2018

Ethnography of a Surveillance State

Jun 5, 2018

Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia

Anthropologist Danny Hoffman photographs urban forms to show how our lives are shaped by the spaces we inhabit.

May 17, 2018

Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia

May 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, 2018

Stopping Infectious Disease Requires ‘Staff, Space, Stuff, and Systems,’ Paul Farmer Argues (With…

Feb 20, 2018

Medical Crowdfunding Researchers Draw Widespread Media Attention

Journalists turn to UW’s Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy to understand the rise of crowdfunding campaigns for health care costs.

Feb 13, 2018

Medical Crowdfunding Researchers Draw Widespread Media Attention

Feb 13, 2018

A Journey to the Center of the Anthropocene

Scholars track hidden stories at the birthplace of a geologic era.

Nov 15, 2017

A Journey to the Center of the Anthropocene

Nov 15, 2017

In Defense of the Search Engine

Google isn’t making us stupid, it’s opening a gold mine for scholars with the right tools, Daniel Shore argues.

Jun 5, 2017

In Defense of the Search Engine

Jun 5, 2017

Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’

A uniquely collaborative research team unpacks a widely used but rarely scrutinized term in global health.

Apr 7, 2017

Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’

Apr 7, 2017

The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding Health Care

The rise of crowdfunding on sites like GoFundMe reflects — and potentially worsens — inequities already at play in US health care…

Apr 3, 2017

The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding Health Care

Apr 3, 2017

From Chicana Punk Rock, Habell-Pallán Forges a Vision for Public Scholarship

The new director of the Certificate in Public Scholarship draws on the cultural ferment among musicians, scholars, and communities.

Jan 23, 2017

From Chicana Punk Rock, Habell-Pallán Forges a Vision for Public Scholarship

Jan 23, 2017

Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant

An interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students examine the tangle of capitalism and race since the origins of European…

Jan 17, 2017

Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant

Jan 17, 2017

The Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Seattle

The Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Seattle

The Simpson Center for the Humanities fosters intellectual discovery across boundaries at the University of Washington and beyond. www.simpsoncenter.org

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