IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Six IAS faculty members won awards in the fall 2016 funding round. Shannon Cram received a research fellowship as a member of the Society of Scholars to complete her book manuscript, 鈥淯nmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.鈥� Jos茅 Fust茅, Jade Power-Sotomayor, and Dan Berger were all awarded Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships. Fust茅 and Jade Power-Sotomayor will work on 鈥淭he Bomba Wiki Project: Oral, Aural, and Corporeal History and Community-Making through Bomba Music and Dance,鈥� while Berger will focus on the development of a digital 鈥淣orthwest Prison Archive.鈥� Johanna Crane, along with Lynn Thomas (History, UW Seattle) and Nora Kenworthy (Nursing and Health Studies, UW Bothell), won funding for a Collaboration Studio Grant on 鈥淭he Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Global Health Partnerships in Africa.鈥� Finally, Ben Gardner led a successful proposal to bring Paul Farmer to the UW for a Katz Distinguished Lectureship in 2017-18. Congratulations, everyone!