Simpson Center for the Humanities

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. 

The interplay of race and capitalism will be the focus of a year-long investigation by UW scholars thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New website chronicles activists who made Seattle a national pioneer for gay rights.

When UW anthropologist Cabeiri Robinson returned to Kashmiri Pakistan one month after the horrific 2005 earthquake, it was more than a professional visit.

One hundred scholars are coming to the UW this week to discuss 14^th century text.

Nine weeks to complete an independent research project? Students in the Summer Institute for the Arts and Humanities embraced that challenge.