We’re excited to share that several GWSS graduate students and faculty members are among the recipients of Simpson Center for the Humanities funding for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Graduate Research Cluster Awards
Two GWSS PhD students are co-organizing Graduate Research Clusters (GRCs) that have been selected for funding:
- Nastasia Paul-Gera (GWSS) and Shelby House (Anthropology) received support for More-than-Human Worlds, a cluster exploring critical approaches to multispecies relations, ecologies, and environments.
- Saad Khan (GWSS) and Eugenio Quantro-Plaga (Anthropology) received support for Transnational Queer and Transgender Scholarship, which brings together cross-border perspectives in queer and trans studies.
Each cluster received $1,000 to support collaborative meetings, events, and programming throughout the 2025–2026 academic year. Eleven proposals were funded in this category across campus.
Faculty Writing Group Support
Kavita Dattani, Assistant Professor in GWSS, received support as part of a newly funded Faculty Writing Group titled Book Projects Centering Transnational, Feminist, and Antiracist Approaches to Technology, Surveillance, and State Violence. The group is one of six funded in this new pilot category supporting scholarly communities focused on mutual accountability and writing-in-progress.
Conference Funding
Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of GWSS, along with Moon-Ho Jung (History), received $15,000 in support for their upcoming conference, Partition and Solidarity: Anticolonial Struggles in the "American Century", scheduled for March 2026.
We’re thrilled to see GWSS scholars—both students and faculty—recognized in this competitive campus-wide funding cycle, and we look forward to the innovative, collaborative work that will emerge from these projects.