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Fahad Bishara, former PhD student in the department of history, has now won three book prizes for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950  (Cambridge, 2017), which is a revised version of his Duke PhD dissertation.  The prizes, none of which were restricted to first-book authors, are:   the James Willard Hurst prize from the Law & Society Association; the Bentley Book Prize from the World History Association; and, just this past weekend, the Stein Book… read more about Third Book Prize for Fahad Bishara »

A handful of graduate students received funding from the history department for summer research.  Below are reports on their experience!   Garrett McKinnon The summer research grant from the History Department at Duke University helped reduce the cost of travel and lodging as I visited the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. My archival interest at NARA centered on the National Inventors Council (NIC). Created by President Franklin Roosevelt a year before U.S. entrance into… read more about What I Did This Summer? »

"Brazilianists Colin Snider, Courtney J. Campbell, and Gray F. Kidd joined Steven Hyland on Historias, the podcast for the Southeast Council for Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), to discuss the trajectory of democracy in Brazil, how scholars have studied it over the past two decades, and what it might reveal about Sunday's election of Jair Bolsonaro.   The episode is available here read more about Kidd Joins Brazilianist Histories in Interpreting Election of Jair Bolsonaro »

Ashton Merck was awarded the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship for her project, “The Fox Guarding the Henhouse.” This fellowship will primarily support the creation of original oral history interviews with the scientific experts and legal practitioners who participated in rulemaking, trade negotiations, and other standard-setting activities in food safety during the 1980s and 1990s. read more about Ashton Merck awarded Cromwell Fellowship »

The National Archives hosted a Blog Talk Radio program with Black Roots Researchers, featuring Syd Nathans and the story behind "A Mind to Stay".   It also features three wonderful people who have traced their families back to the Stagville plantation in North Carolina, where his book's story began.  The program captures their intrepid detective work, how they found their way to Stagville forebears, and how they also discovered each other--and Nathans.  You can listen here. read more about Prof. Emeritus Syd Nathans featured on Blog Talk Radio »

Travis Knoll recently published an article entitled,   "Black Theological Politics from Obama to the Present" in Tocqueville21.com. Black Theological Politics from Obama to the Present - Tocqueville21 tocqueville21.com The two years since Trump’s election have seen calls for a return to the activist ethos of the Civil Rights movement. The shock victory of “the first white president” and … read more about Travis Knoll publishes "Black Theological Politics from Obama to the Present" »

Duke History PhD candidate Travis Knoll received an AY 2018-2019  Andrew Mellon Foundation-funded Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship. With this support, he will  pursue his dissertation on affirmative action, Catholicism, and Black movements in Brazil. This work traces the decisive role played by a group of Black Catholics priests and lay people on Rio's urban periphery whose religiously-informed activism led to the 2001 state law in Rio de Janeiro that mandated racial… read more about History PhD candidate Travis Knoll receives Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship »

By John Jeffries Martin Normally the image would not have crystalized my anxiety. But I happened upon it in a dark time: as Donald Trump began to campaign in earnest for the office of president of the United States. And so an otherwise unremarkable plaque in the Chiesa degli Scalzi, a baroque church next to the Venetian train station, struck me as a warning. Its inscription reads: Manini cineres or “the ashes of Manin.” Lodovico Manin was Venice’s last doge. Generally doges served for life. But Manin’s term was cut short… read more about Trump and the future of our republic: The omens aren't good »

By Ian Johnson Prasenjit Duara is one of the most original thinkers on culture and religion in Asia. A 66-year-old historian of China, he was born in Assam, India, and educated at the University of Delhi, the University of Chicago and Harvard. He later taught at the University of Chicago, Stanford and the National University of Singapore and now teaches at Duke. Professor Duara began his career with a pioneering study of Chinese religion: “Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942.” This work, published… read more about On the Role of Chinese Religion in Environmental Protection »

By Laura Edwards The history of Duke University is inseparable from the rich and conflicted history of the South, particularly the history of North Carolina.  But the campus captures and memorializes just one piece of this past—a piece that fundamentally misrepresents Duke University’s heritage.  The past now memorialized on campus focuses attention narrowly on the institutional history of Duke.  The campus recognizes faculty who worked here as well as others who have contributed to the University’s mission… read more about The History that Duke Does Not Memorialize »

The Law & Society Association’s Dissertation Prize is awarded annually for the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society. The 2018 winner is Amanda Hughett, a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY-Buffalo’s Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, for “Silencing the Cell Block: The Making of Modern Prison Policy in North Carolina and the Nation.” Hughett received her PhD in History from Duke in 2017. read more about Amanda Hughett wins the Law & Society Association’s Dissertation Prize »