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    Sucheta Mazumdar works on China America trade, connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic. Read more


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    Malachi Hacohen studies Jewish-Christian relations, a history of hostility with rare moments of imagined fraternity and peace. Read more

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    BorderWork(s), an interdisciplinary humanities lab at the FHC, examines the human consequences of how we imagine geographic space. Read more

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    Philip Stern explores how states, sovereignty, and empires are made.

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Duke University's History Department ranks among the top fifteen programs in the country.  Our 40-plus full time faculty members cover a diverse array of topics, but share a common approach to the past: We join deep knowledge of particular areas with broad engagement across fields and disciplines to produce award-winning scholarship.


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Thavolia Glymph Elected to the American Antiquarian Society

Thavolia Glymph has been elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society! This is a very high honor -- since its establishment just over a hundred…
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Sydney Nathans wins the 2013 Darlene Clark Hine Award

Sydney Nathans has been selected to receive the 2013 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians
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Pete Sigal has been promoted to full professor!

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Duke Professors win Major Grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation

Ed Balleisen, along with Duke Law Professors Jonathan Wiener and Kim Krawiec, and Duke environmental economist Lori Bennear, have won a major grant…
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William M. Reddy’s talk, “Do Emotions Have a History? The Example of Romantic Love,” given in Melbourne on 14 March, airs nationally in Australia, on the “Big Ideas” program of Radio National (of the Australian Broadcasting Company), at 8 pm Wednesday, 22 May, 2013. “Big Ideas” programs can be downloaded, as well, from its website at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/

Romantic love and the history of emotions (Australian Broadcasting’s "Big Ideas")

In highlights from a lecture at the University of Melbourne, history and cultural anthropology professor William Reddy considers sexual desire and romantic love and compares some of the approaches and traditions across time, culture and place.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/romantic-love-and-the-history-of-emotions/4661102

The clip is also included with a live link in the Duke in the News section of Duke Today,

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