UW Bothell Summer Reading Group
Overview
The UW Bothell Summer Reading Group provides an opportunity for groups of four-to-six faculty to become immersed in shared scholarship or teaching areas of interest. Participating faculty will review and discuss scholarship or pedagogy during the funding term. Although the reading groups may lead to new collaborations or larger-scale projects, the focus of the groups is to catch up on new scholarship or pedagogical practice in a shared area of interest.
Application
The Office of Faculty Success will provide up to three awards per summer. Each faculty in a reading group will receive $1,000, and each group leader will receive $1,250. Groups must meet for a minimum of 10 hours. Groups determine how they will schedule those 10 hours during the summer term. For example, groups can meet to discuss readings one hour/week for ten weeks, two hours/week for five weeks, two hours/day for one week, etc. Funds can be used for either salary (benefits are deducted from the amount) or as support for teaching, scholarship, or creative practice.
*Deadline is May 15, 2026. Open to all faculty.
Recipients
2025
- Anida Ali, Naomi Bragin, Amaranth Borsuk, Jed Murr and Georgia Roberts were granted the Summer Reading Group Award to engage in dialogue around curricular design and transformative, community-engaged pedagogies, with a focus on popular culture, creative writing, and performing arts.
- Matthew Gliboff, Nicole Hoover, Alanna Pawlak, Rachel Scherr, Avery Shinneman and Caleb Trujillo were granted the Summer Reading Group Award to engage in cross-disciplinary conversations on discipline-based education research with the goal of informing new opportunities across research and teaching.
- Ben Gardner, Maryam Griffin, Ron Krabill, and Camille Walsh were granted the Summer Reading Group Award to explore and discuss recent emerging scholarship and law in the field of indigeneity, citizenship, sovereignty and international human rights.
2024
- Yue Bian, Xiaodong Nie, Kosuke Niitsu and Min Tang were granted the Summer Reading Group Award for teaching to explore how scholars with an international background navigate the challenges and opportunities of teaching and researching in U.S. higher education institutions as culturally and linguistically minoritized first-generation immigrant faculty.