History major, Veronica Niamba T'21, received the Lowell Aptman Prize for the paper she wrote in HIST 160S - GTWY SEM: THE GLOBAL SIXTIES. This course was taught by Ph.D student, Gray Kidd. "Veronica hit the ground running, so to speak, when exploring possible avenues of research. During an exploratory class visit to the Rubenstein Library, she had a fortuitous encounter with the personal papers of Angier Biddle Duke, a fascinatingly multivalent sports fanatic, diplomatic officer, and friend of Duke… read more about Veronica Niamba receives Lowell Aptman Prize »
The roundtable on the Latino/a South in Labor, which featured Cecilia Marquez, was selected to be open-access. Her article,“Juan Crow and the Erasure of Blackness in the Latina/o South” is now available online here. read more about Cecilia Marquez's article “Juan Crow and the Erasure of Blackness in the Latina/o South” is available for open access »
Nicole Barnes, Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, has been awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her recent book, Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and he Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 (University of California Press, 2018). This award, administered by the American Historical Association, is awarded every year for “the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928–… read more about Nicole Barnes awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize »
Nicole Barnes, Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, has been awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her recent book, Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 (University of California Press, 2018). This award, administered by the American Historical Association, is awarded every year for “the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan… read more about Nicole Barnes awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize »
History Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy discusses Gandhi's role in India's visual culture. Read the full story in the New York Times. read more about The Many Faces of Gandhi »
Long before deportable immigrants were held in detention centers or lucrative privately run prisons in the United States, local jails were the holding cells of choice for the federal government. “As early as 1900 towns made money off detaining immigrants ... way before private prison companies,” said Brianna Nofil ‘T12, now a doctoral candidate in U.S. History at Columbia University. “(Local governments) started viewing undocumented immigrants as a commodity … a way to access federal money.” Nofil and Duke history professor… read more about How Immigration Detention Became a Government Headache »
Duke historian James Chappel's book, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church, is discussed in Princeton professor's article regarding the catholic church and Pope Francis. Read the full article at The Nation. read more about The Two Catholicisms: The church between tradition and modernity. »
History and African & African American Studies Professor Thavolia Glymph led a discussion for Philadelphia Municipal Court judges and other court employees regarding an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision on rights of black people. Read the full article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. read more about Philadelphia judges find modern meaning in the 1857 Dred Scott case »
Watch Nancy MacLean's interview on MSNBC's AM Joy with Joy Reid! The interview aired on Sunday, 9/22/19. It starts at 16:30 with the clip from Paul Weyrich on not wanting people to vote, and runs about 9 mins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWyk-kmQl6c read more about Nancy MacLean Interviewed on MSNBC's AMJoy »
Prof. Mestyan co-directs with Prof. Mercedes Volait (CNRS) a project on the modern urban history of Cairo, Egypt. “La fabrique du Caire moderne” (Twitter: @cairemoderne) is a pilot project about urban development, architecture, Euro-Mediterranean entanglements and global investment in Cairo in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its main goal is to combine thorough archival research with historical topographic iconography, using digital tools (visualization, GIS and TEI-XML texts), in order to produce a global urban… read more about Prof. Mestyan co-directs project "La fabrique du Caire moderne" »
Prof. Cecilia Marquez recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History. She was also featured in a roundtable on the Latino/a South in Labor, a journal on labor and working class history. Prof. Marquez is currently on leave this semester as a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow. read more about Cecilia Marquez co-edits issue of the "Journal of American Ethnic History" and is featured in a roundtable on the Latino/a South in "Labor" »
PhD candidate, Anderson Hagler, recently published an article in the journal, Ethnohistory. The article is titled, "Archival Epistemology: Honor, Sodomy, and Indians in the Eighteenth-Century New Mexico". You can read the article here. read more about Anderson Hagler published a journal article in "Ethnohistory" »
Ashton Merck won the 2019 John E. Rovensky Fellowship for her project, “The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Food Safety in Meat and Poultry, 1946-2002.” The Rovensky Fellowships support completion of doctoral dissertations in US Business or Economic History, and are conferred by the Business History Conference. read more about Ashton Merck wins John E. Rovensky Fellowship »
Former Duke history honors student, Dr. Christienna Fryar '05, was recently appointed Lecturer in Black British History at the University of Liverpool. read more about Prof. Christienna Fryar '05 Leads New History Program »
History's graduate student Gray Kidd received a Graduate Student Training Enhancement Grant for use during the 2018-2019 academic year. Read here how he used the grant to produce a filmic component to his dissertation research in Recife, Brazil. read more about Gray Kidd received GSTEG funding for 2018-2019 academic year »
Duke historian John Herd Thompson, an authority on Canadian history and a former history department chair, has died. He was 72. Thompson taught at Duke from 1989 to his retirement in 2012. While at Duke, he served as chair of the history department and as director of the Canadian Studies program. He was known for his love of Canada, baseball and jazz, and for his devotion to his students. “John was a dear colleague, with a wonderful sense of humor, a joie de vivre approach to life, and a camaraderie that endeared… read more about Professor Emeritus John Herd Thompson Dies at Age 72 »
Ph.D. candidate Gray F. Kidd will participate and present his research at the 2019 edition of the Summer School in Critical Theory at the University of Bologna, Italy. This year’s theme is “Urban Urbanscapes.” The summer school is sponsored by the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, a research entity jointly promoted by the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Bologna. read more about Gray F. Kidd heading to Summer School in Critical Theory at the University of Bologna »
Jane De Hart (’58, Ph.D.’67 History), receives the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from Duke University Graduate School. read more about History graduate receives 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award »
Farren Yero has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project "Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840" The 1804 introduction of the smallpox vaccine raised unprecedented questions in the Spanish Empire about patient rights and medical consent. By royal order, vaccination was voluntary—a problem for doctors in need of young bodies to reproduce, test, and circulate the vaccine. “Laboratories of Consent” considers… read more about Farren Yero awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship »
Thavolia Glymph has been elected to membership in the Society of American Historians in recognition of the literary and scholarly distinction of her historical writing. "The Society was founded in 1939 by the historian and journalist Allan Nevins to promote literary excellence in the writing or presentation of history. Membership is by invitation only; among our current fellows are scholars, journalists, independent historians, essayists, biographers, novelists, filmmakers, curators, and poets working in… read more about Thavolia Glymph elected into the Society of American Historians »
Adriane Lentz-Smith has been selected as a 2019 Distinguished Alumna of the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Duke TIP’s mission is to recognize academically talented students and provide advanced learning opportunities that foster their intellectual and social growth. Through their Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA), they hope to provide our current students with role models who have accomplished a high level of success in their careers while emulating our mission and values. Lentz-Smith… read more about Adriane Lentz-Smith selected as a 2019 Distinguished Alumna of Duke TIP »
The following students are this year's recipients of the Anne Frior Scott Award. This award is given to help undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research in women's history. 2019 Award Winner Department/Yr/Advisor Research Topic Allain, Jacqueline History/3rd/Dubois "'They are quiet women now:' Incarcerated Women and Hair Cropping in the Postemancipation British Caribbean" Amundson, Sarah History/2nd/Glymph untitled Barco, Siobhan History/1st/Edwards A Study of Myra… read more about 2019 Anne Firor Scott Award Winners »
Nancy MacLeans recent book, "Democracy in Chains", was referenced in a recent op-ed in the New York Times. read more about MacLean's "Democracy in Chains" referenced in NY Times »
The Anne Firor Scott Award is given to help students (undergraduates planning to take the History Senior Honors Seminar and graduates working on seminar projects or dissertations) engaged in research in women's history to spend time in archives and resource centers where they can use original historical materials. The application consists of the following: 1) a proposal of 2-3 pages addressed to the Anne Scott Award Committee, 2) current curriculum vitae or resume, (3) the completed application form. The proposal should… read more about Anne Firor Scott Award 2019 »
The Tobin Project featured Laura Edwards, a convener on their History of American Democracy Project, in their recent news letter. In the piece, she discusses her new history course, "History of American Democracy". You can read the newsletter here (page 3). read more about Laura Edwards featured in The Tobin Project newsletter »
Bill Sharman recently published an essay in Zeitgeschichte-Online entitled "Refugee Refusals: Human Rights and Humanitarianism since 1948.” The essay is part of an edited collection marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. read more about Bill Sharman publishes essay on refugees and human rights »
PhD candidate, Rob Franco published his first article, "Todos/as Somos 41: The Dance of the Forty-One from Homosexual Reappropriation to Transgender Representation in Mexico, 1945–2001" in the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. read more about Rob Franco publishes article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality »
Pioneering historian Anne Firor Scott, who helped establish the field of women’s history and taught at Duke for three decades, has died. She was 97. Read more in Duke Today. read more about Anne Frior Scott has died at 97 »
A key goal of Together Duke is to invest in faculty as scholars and leaders of the university’s intellectual communities. To foster collaboration around new and emerging areas of interest, Intellectual Community Planning Grants (ICPG) are available to groups of faculty. These grants cover the cost of food, meeting venues, external speakers or other meeting costs, and exploratory research into potential collaborators at Duke and elsewhere. The offices of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary… read more about Nicole Barnes receives 2019 Intellectual Community Planning Grant »
