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Duke Ph.D. candidates Lea Greenberg (German Studies), Bill Sharman (History), and Anna Tybinko (Romance Studies) have received the prestigious Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. A total of 64 fellowships were awarded out of more than 1,000 applicants. The fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a $35,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to advanced graduate students in their final year of… read more about 3 Receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships for 2020-2021 »

Duke alumna Katherine Becker, Trinity ’17, has been awarded the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation. The award provides a full tuition-fee waiver to an exceptional female student from the United States who wishes to pursue study in a field related to politics, conflict transformation or human rights at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. This is the second year the award has been offered. Becker is the sole recipient of the award for 2020-2021. She will use her award to complete a… read more about Duke Alum Wins Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation »

Due to the cancellation of the Association of Asian Studies 2020 Annual Conference, 2019-20 AAS President Prasenjit Duara did not have the opportunity to deliver his Presidential Address in Boston. We are pleased to announce that Duara’s talk, “The Art of Convergent Comparison: China and India in Modern Times,” is available as a narrated slideshow. read more about Prof. Prasenjit Duara delivers 2020 AAS Presidential Address »

“I've had so many people tell me over the last few weeks that they feel like they’re losing their identity,” said Sherilynn Black, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement. “The work that they do—their teaching, research, scholarship—is so much of what makes them who they are.” Responding to the needs of faculty during the coronavirus pandemic, Black and her colleagues in Duke’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement are adjusting their programming with topics ranging from virtual student engagement and… read more about Duke Faculty Reexamine Their Roles as Scholars and Mentors in an Uncertain Time »

Assistant Professor of History Nicole Barnes was recently honored with the William H. Welch Medal, which is awarded by the American Association of the History of Medicine. This award is bestowed upon “a book of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the past five years”.  Nicole joins a prestigious list of past recipients.     This is the 2nd national recognition Nicole has received for her first monograph, Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of… read more about Nicole Barnes Awarded William H. Welch Medal »

Congratulations to the following student award winners from Duke University units in 2020.   African & African American Studies   John Hope Franklin Award for Academic Excellence: Elizabeth DuBard Grantland Karla FC Holloway Award for University Service: Beza Gebremariam Mary McLeod Bethune Writing Award: Jenna Clayborn Walter C. Burford Award for Community Service: Kayla Lynn Corredera-Wells   Art, Art History & Visual Studies… read more about Student Honors and Laurels for 2020 »

Bold thinking is an essential part of Duke’s approach to scholarship, and three ongoing projects show the unexpected results. Adriane Lentz-Smith, Gabriel Rosenberg, and Aarthi Vadde have been named 2020–21 National Humanities Center Fellows. They will spend a year away from their regular teaching duties as resident scholars at the Research Triangle Park–based center, researching and writing new books. Chosen from 673 applicants, they join 30 other humanists from the U.S. and four foreign countries working in 18 different… read more about The Police State, Livestock Breeding and Web 2.0: Research by 3 Duke Professors »

Graduate student, Jacqueline Allain, recently published an article titled, "‘They are Quiet Women Now’: Hair cropping, British Imperial Governance, and the Gendered Body in the Archive". Blurb: The punishment of hair-cropping for use on female prisoners was the subject of considerable disagreement in the British Caribbean during the post-emancipation era. The robust debate over hair cropping furnishes a lens through which to analyze competing visions of colonial rule at a moment of British imperial expansion. Moreover… read more about PhD Candidate, Jacqueline Allain, Publishes Article »

Nearly seven years ago, a new hashtag appeared. It was summer 2013, and George Zimmerman had just been acquitted after fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black teenager. The new movement #BlackLivesMatter quickly became a national sensation. However, movements to protect the lives of Black individuals are not exclusive to the United States, nor did they begin just in 2013. For the Spring 2020 semester, Professor of History John French teamed up with Silvio Luiz de Almeida, Mellon visiting professor in the… read more about Students portray Black Lives Matter movement in US and Brazil through art »

Our courses challenge students to think critically about the world around them and their place within it. And for Fall 2020, we will feature a broad range of topics and time periods that focus on everything from the history of intimacy and synthetic chemicals, to the global cold war and living in a world with Coronovirus. Below are just a sampling of our offerings for this fall.   Selected Spotlighted Courses Introduction to Global History - History 101.01 Explore… read more about Spotlighted Fall 2020 Classes »

In times of crisis, historians look back in search of answers for the present. What seems to many as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic appears familiar in historical perspective: humanity confronting the prospect of horrific losses, and a plague testing the social bonds. Epidemics call upon society to show solidarity, to care for others, and to protect the vulnerable. Not all such calls were answered positively in the past: Epidemics sometimes led to violent persecution of imagined villains, resulting in social… read more about Epidemics in History: Faculty Reflections on COVID-19 »

One after another, they took their turn at the mic—seven Duke history Ph.D. graduates, now all established scholars. One after another, they unspooled memories and introspection on how the guest of honor, Julius Scott, had shaped their lives and careers. To Alexander Byrd, Scott was his first history professor and his first black professor. To Jennifer Morgan, he was the Ph.D. adviser who gave voluminous feedback, even long after they had both left Duke. For Claudio Saunt, he was to Atlantic history what Duke Ellington was… read more about History Alumni Celebrate the Common Wind that Launched Their Careers »

Democrats want an "Obama-Biden restoration not a political revolution," says Pope "Mac" McCorkle Former Vice President Joe Biden won North Carolina’s Democratic primary with 43% of votes cast Tuesday, according to unofficial results. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders garnered 24.10% of the vote to place second. Duke University political experts assess the results below: Pope “Mac” McCorkle McCorkle, a professor of the practice of public policy and director of Polis: Center for Politics, served as an… read more about Duke Faculty Assess Tuesday's Primary Results »

Professor Stern and Professor Triplett’s project, “The Sandcastle Workflow: A Malleable System for Visualizing Pre-Modern Maps and Views,” explores methods for understanding premodern cartography using 2D and 3D visualization and mapping techniques. Stern and Triplett have also been awarded Data+ (summer 2020) and Bass Connections (2020-2021) project team grants from Duke for related work. read more about Philip Stern and Ed Triplett (AAHVS) awarded Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities »

Johns Hopkins Press—with a grant from the NEH/Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book program to reissue classics in some fields—has just brought out a brand-new edition of The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870 by our very own Martin Miller.  Originally published in 1986,  Marty’s monograph was the first study of Russian emigres who left their country in the first half of the 19th century to escape the numerous adverse demands of the state under Nicholas I.      read more about Professor Miller's "The Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825-1870" reissued after more than three decades »

A new exhibit in the Divinity School underscores that sometimes the most powerful messages of peace come from the people most involved in fighting wars. The Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies, the Human Rights Center, the History Department, and the Graduate Liberal Studies Program, all at Duke University, is hosting an exhibit titled “Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War.” The exhibit website provides additional… read more about Setting the Record Straight About Vietnam Protest Movements »

Graduate student Mohammed Ali recently got an article accepted to the journal Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. The article is titled "Ethical Archetypes in Environmental Histories" and analyzes the different tropes environmental historians have used to raise the ethical stakes of environmental destruction. The article will be published in Volume 36 by the beginning of next year. read more about Mohammed Ali placed a journal article in Rhizomes »

DURHAM, N.C. -- Five Duke University students and alumni have been named Schwarzman Scholars, a program that funds one year of study in Beijing, China. Seniors Charles Berman of Durham, North Carolina, and Max Labaton of Washington, D.C., were named Schwarzman Scholars. They join 2019 Duke graduates Yunjie Lai of Chongquing, China, and Kevin Zheng of Glenelg, Maryland, and 2017 graduate Steven Soto of Phoenix, Arizona, as members of the Schwarzman Class of 2021. They are among 145 scholars chosen from more than 4,700… read more about Five From Duke Named Schwarzman Scholars »

On Sunday, November 10 at 7:00 PM, Adriane Lentz-Smith will be featured on the veterans episode of the Legal Eagles Review on WNCU 90.7 FM.  The show will air this Sunday, November 10, at 7p on the radio on WNCU 90.7 FM. You may also listen online at http://www.wncu.org by clicking on the "Listen Live" link on the right side of the page. You can also listen using the WNCU App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wncu-public-radio-app/id61737604 ).   The episode should also be available on iTunes around… read more about Adriane Lentz-Smith featured in veterans episode on WNCU 90.7 FM »

The exploration the public lives of the “first ladies” of America’s Christian evangelical megachurches and an intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life in Appalachia are among the new noteworthy books by Duke authors this fall. Many of the books, including new editions of previous titles, can be found on the "Duke Authors" display shelves near the circulation desk in Perkins Library. Some are available as e-books for quick download. Most can also be purchased through the Gothic Bookshop. [Duke Today will… read more about Fall Books: Clean Hands, Aging Brains, Evangelical Women and Other Great Reads »

The opening of an exhibit exploring the foundations of housing inequality in Durham was celebrated Oct. 28 in the Classroom Building on East Campus. “Uneven Ground” – a series of informational hanging panels rich with photos and archival data originally curated as part of the Bull City 150 project – will be hosted by the Franklin Gallery @ History throughout this academic year. The exhibit panels span the first and second floors and are available to the campus community and the public during working hours. The Franklin… read more about History Department Exhibit Presents the Stories Behind Housing Inequality in Durham »

Uneven Ground: The Foundations of Housing Inequality in Durham, NC   Uneven Ground is a traveling public exhibition by Bull City 150 that tells the story of the historical roots of current-day land and housing inequality in Durham, North Carolina. The historical narratives that shape Uneven Ground are drawn from original archival research and mapping data, local oral histories and sound recordings, and dozens of books, reports, newspapers, dissertations, and theses.   Utilizing the exhibit, Bull City 150 intends… read more about "Uneven Ground: The Foundations of Housing Inequality in Durham" Franklin Gallery Exhibit Opening Monday, October 28, 2019 »