Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

Six outstanding UW graduate students are representing the Simpson Center in the newly-created HASTAC Scholars Program. As students and teachers leading the way in participatory learning, HASTAC Scholars receive scholarships to encourage innovative uses of technology in their work.

	Deborah Kimmey (English) administers the online interactive "keyword collaboratories" that extend the work of Keywords for American Cultural Studies to classes and working groups.
	Eric Meyers (Information School) investigates how children from ages 6-12 interact in shared virtual environments online.
	Angela Rounsaville (English) approaches technological literacy and media access from a social justice perspective.
	Jentery Sayers (English) examines sound reproduction technologies in the context of Anglo-American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
	Ramsey Tesdell (Technical Communications and International Studies) studies the role of technology in social movements in the Middle East, and runs 7iber.com, a media website from Jordan.
	Matthew Wilson (Geography) explores how geographic information technologies enable neighborhood assessment endeavors.

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Digital Humanities

Digital Initiatives on Campus

From reusable toolsets to scholarly databases to collaborative online learning environments, UW faculty, staff, and students are deeply involved in the digital transformation of the humanities.

The Simpson Center is working to seed, support, and strengthen work in the digital humanities, through participating in consortia, sponsoring classes and hosting hands-on workshops on digital scholarship.
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UW - Highschool Partnership

Texts and Teachers

Odai Johnson, "Staging Shakespeare Then and Now"

For ten years, this program has brought University of Washington faculty and local high school teachers together each summer to co-design a literature class to be taught simultaneously at both levels. Led by Gary Handwerk (English and Comparative Literature), Texts and Teachers is currently looking to parter with more UW faculty for the 2008-09 academic year. Students at both the UW and Eastlake, Lake Washington, and Roosevelt high schools will be reading and discussing Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, and Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.

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Norm Dicks Receives National Humanities Alliance Award

On March 4, 2008, Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) was honored with the Sidney R. Yates Award for Distinguished Public Service to the Humanities at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Dicks represents the 6th District of Washington State in the U.S. Congress, and has been a longtime advocate for the humanities and the arts in the Northwest. The award was presented as part of the national Humanities Advocacy Day by Raymond Jonas (History). Jonas traveled to Capitol Hill together with Jentery Sayers (Graduate Student, English) and Sarah Spreitzer (Assistant Director, Federal Relations, UW) to meet Congressional representatives and national leaders engaged in shaping national humanities policy.

Digital Humanities

Keywords for American Cultural Studies

An interactive website accompanies the release of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, edited by Bruce Burgett (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell) and Glenn Hendler (English, Fordham University). Developed through a partnership between the Simpson Center for the Humanities and New York University Press, this website enables users to revise, extend, and add to the research conversation contained in the volume. The website will provide spaces where classes and working groups can create, experiment with, and publish new keywords projects.

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