John French is a Senior Editor on the Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR). read more about French on Hispanic History »
Laura Edwards is serving on the editorial board of Law and History Review, the Cromwell Book Prize committee for the Association for American Legal History and has been appointed chair of the Publications Committee of the Association for American Legal History. She is currently chairing the program committees for the Southern Historical Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta, 2014. read more about Edwards »
Sarah Deutsch serves on the Rawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, to select the best book on race relations in North America published each year and has long served on the editorial boards of Gender and History, Journal of Urban History, and is one of five editors of an Oxford University Press, Pages from History, which is a series of volumes of original sources aimed at junior high school, high school, and college use. read more about Deutsch on Race Relations »
Dirk Bonker is a co-organizer for the Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the War, Military, and Society since spring 2006. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and a member of the Steering Committee for the Graduate Students Grants & Fellowships Committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations since 2011. read more about Bonker on War & Society »
Edward Balleisen is a trustee for the Business History Conference and is chairing the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting in Frankfurt. He is also serving on two editorial boards: Law & History Review and Business History Review and serves as the reviewer for the National Humanities Center. He is the lead organizer of the Triangle Legal History Seminar. read more about Balleisen: Legal & Business History »
Jocelyn Olcott is a Senior Editor on the Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR). She is also an advisory board member on History of Women in Americas and Women and International Social Movements. She is an article evaluator for the Journal of Latin American Studies and a member of the American Historical Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Conference of Latin American History. She is also a manuscript reviewer for Duke University Press. read more about Professional Service: Jocelyn Olcott »
Kristen Neuschel is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. read more about Neuschel & Medieval History »
Martin Miller was appointed Visiting Research Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, 2013-14. He is the primary reviewer for new manuscripts prior to publication in Russian and Soviet history for the History Book Club and his reviews appear in the History Channel Book Club newsletters. read more about Miller & Russian Studies »
Sucheta Mazumdar serves on the editorial board of SERAS (Journal of South East Review of Asian Studies), SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal in Paris) and Gender and History. read more about Professional Service: Sucheta Mazumdar »
John Martin is coeditor of Virtues & Vices, a series for Yale University Press. read more about On Virtues and Vice »
Jehangir Malegam is the convener of the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar funded by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University bringing together medievalists working in multiple disciplines and on diverse geographical areas from the three universities to discuss colleagues’ work in progress multiple times each semester. read more about Medieval Studies: Jehangir Melagam »
Nancy MacLean is the Vice President of the Labor and Working Class History Association and is on the board of contributing editors for Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. read more about Labor History: Nancy MacLean »
Adriane Lentz-Smith has served on program committees for the Southern Association of Women Historian, the Southern Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She has also served on the Minority Scholars Committee of the American Studies Association and as the co-organizer for the Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society. read more about Southern History: Adriane Lentz-Smith »
Anna Krylova served on the Chester Higby Prize Committee of the American Historical Association. read more about Professional Service: Anna Krylova »
Reeve Huston is a committee member for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant program and serves on the advisory council for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. read more about Humanities and Huston »
Margaret Humphreys is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the History of Medicine. She is a grant reviewer for the American Council of Learned Societies. She is the Vice-President of the American Association for the History of Medicine. read more about History of Medicine: Margaret Humphreys »
Engseng Ho serves on many editorial boards, including: Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Ethnologist, Modern Asia Studies, Indonesian Islam, Journal of Society and Social Change, Crossroads: International Journal of Arabian, Gulf and Yemeni Studies, Indian Ocean book series at Indiana University, and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. read more about Professional Service: Engseng Ho »
John French, Jocelyn Olcott, and Pete Sigal through the Hispanic American Historical Review, have hired 30 bloggers that are academics (both faculty and graduate students), journalists, and public intellectuals from Latin America. read more about Blogging for Latin America »
William Reddy is co-editing a series of books on the history of the emotions, published by Palgrave Macmillan (UK). His co-editor is David Lemmings of the University of Adelaide (Australia). read more about Reddy: History of Emotions »
Sumathi Ramaswamy has recently joined the international advisory board for the Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University in Germany. She has also been recently appointed to a three-year term as a member of the International Advisory Board. read more about International Partnerships: Ramaswamy »
Engseng Ho serves on an external review committee for the Middle East Institute and Asia Research Institute at the National University in Singapore. He also serves on the International Advisory board for Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute. Ho gives lectures on Islam and international problems in Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia in the local languages. read more about International Partnerships: Engseng Ho »
Malachi Hacohen has been with the Vienna International Summer University: Scientific World Conceptions, since 2000; MOU; supported by A&S IFK, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, since 2002; MOU: research fellowships and student-faculty exchange VGA, Verein fuer Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Vienna, since 1996: joint conferences and faculty contributing to publications; ongoing collaboration on Empire, Socialism & Jews Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Department of… read more about Hacohen at Vienna International Summer University »
Laura Edwards has been part of a project, "Re-Imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions," organized out of Oxford University by Joanna Innes and Mark Philp, which held a series of workshops and has resulted in a book, with commissioned pieces that reflect the discussions at the workshops: Joanna Innes and Mark Philp, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). She contributed one of the… read more about Re-Imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions »
Edward Balleisen is the Program Committee Chair for the 2014 meeting of Business History in Frankfurt in March. He was the Print Media Committee Chair for the Business History Conference for 2013-14 and the Trustee for this conference from 2011-2014. read more about International Partnership: Edward Balleisen »
Duke doctoral candidate Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell will be featured on PBS' "History Detectives" on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2014. The show investigates historical "mysteries" or helps identify historical objects. In its 10th season, "History Detectives" enlists historians, other academics, and appraisers to use traditional archival research, technology, and legwork to shed light on episodes from the past. As a sixth-year doctoral candidate who focuses on black girls and the law in late-nineteenth century South Carolina, Greenlee-… read more about Greenlee-Donnell Featured in PBS History Detectives »
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 years ago, the Society has only elected some 2900 individuals to its membership, recognizing in its selection outstanding scholars, educators, writers (more than sixty of whom have won Pulitzer Prizes), publishers, collectors, librarians, journalists, civic leaders (including 14 US Presidents), and lay persons with an interest in American history. read more about Glymph Elected to American Antiquarian Society »
DURHAM, North Carolina — Late one afternoon in March, officials unveiled a new monument at the University of the West Indies, in Cave Hill, Barbados. The ceremony featured African drumming, a historian’s lecture, a bishop’s prayer and a song performed by a school choir with the chorus, “We cry for the ancestors!” Those ancestors, 295 of whom have their names on the monument, were slaves who once lived where the campus now stands. What today is a university was once a plantation. What is now a nation was once a colony. In… read more about Dubois in NYTimes: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery »
Sydney Nathans, Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker (Harvard University Press). The Douglass Prize was created jointly by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It is awarded annually by Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition… read more about Nathans Wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize »
Duke alumna Courtney Spence found that history classes opened windows into the world. She translated those learning experiences into founding Students of the World, a nonprofit that empowers students mediamakers to share the stories of innovators and programs that tackle some of the globe's pressing problems. read more about How Duke History Classes Fostered Openness to Foreign Cultures - Courtney Spence »
Rebecca Stone (2012) interned at the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Office of Government Relations this summer, where she helped restart an after-hours program, "Portaits After 5," as part of the internship. Stone received a Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant for Summer Internships in Museum Studies for her work this summer. read more about Alumni Profile: Rebecca Stone »
