About the Simpson Center
Our Mission: The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. Read more
Our History: Between 2000 and 2010, the Simpson Center funded 98 faculty fellowships and 56 dissertation fellowships supporting scholars from 26 campus units across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and professional schools. Read more
Download the Simpson Center Fact Sheet for more information on the center.
Administration
The Simpson Center operates under the guidance of Director Kathleen Woodward and Associate Director Miriam Bartha. Center administration supports programs that fulfill the Center’s central missions, projects proposed by UW faculty, staff, and graduate students, and daily coordination of resources and facilities.
Facilities
The Simpson Center has four spaces that are available by request for Center-sponsored projects and programs, as well as humanities, interdepartmental, and scholarly events organized by other UW organizations.
What Others Are Saying
“The Simpson Center has undoubtedly been a leader in taking the academic humanities public.”
— Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington (2003)
“The Simpson Center will serve as a national model for the transformation of traditional humanities centers in the digital age.”
— Bruce Cole, former NEH Chairman
