Simpson Center for the Humanities

The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities promotes innovative crossdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and fosters exchange and debate on cultural and intellectual issues among University of Washington scholars and the Seattle community. The role of the Simpson Center is to support initiatives in the humanities at the leading edge of change, to encourage interdisciplinary research and learning among UW faculty and students, to establish public programs in the humanities that engage the public, and to support inventive crossdisciplinary courses for undergraduates and graduates.