Simpson Center for the Humanities

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage through opportunities with the Henry, the Center for Labor Studies, and more.

The Simpson Center's new "Reimagining the Humanities" PhD program seeks to engage students in public scholarship and find new opportunities for professors.

The Simpson Center's Next Generation Humanities PhD program is "transform(ing) what it means to be a humanities scholar.”

This week in the arts, Three Sisters closes, Professor Shannon Dudley bridges campus and community, Burke Open Doors allows chatting with researchers, and more!

Celebrate the accomplishments of the 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities undergraduate researchers, attend Bulrusher - directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, and more!

UW professor Ralina Joesph is teaching people to talk about race across generational and racial lines

This week in the arts, visit a graduation exhibition, attend the premier of “Lynch: A History'” at SIFF, see “Nina Simone: Four Women” at the Rep., and more!

Through a Simpson Center program, UW doctoral students explore the challenges and benefits of teaching at a two-year college.

Prize awarded for a decade of transformative prison education work.

Students expose layers hidden beneath the city's staggering wealth, using "dark tourism" to find reasons for protest and celebration--sometimes both at once.

University of Washington anthropology student Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.

Stopping infectious disease requires 'Staff, Space, Stuff and Systems,' Farmer argued in his recent lecture at UW. 

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

Tell a Congressional staffer that you’re visiting to talk about public support for the humanities and you see waves of both puzzlement and relief wash across their face.

A Suzzallo Library exhibit created by history grad student Jessica Bachman highlights Cold War-era cultural ties between India and the USSR.