Past Opportunities

Summer Graduate Research Assistant: Archive & Web Projects

The Franklin Humanities Institute is seeking a summer graduate research assistant to work on a set of inter-connected archiving and communications projects (late May/early June to late August).

Deadline: 05/10/2013

Call for Applications: PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge Scholars, 2013-14

Deadline: 04/30/2013

CFP: Pro-vocare, A New Collection of Sonically-Inspiring Projects

CFP from SoundBox, a graduate student-led project on sound studies supported by the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge

Deadline: 04/01/2013

CFP: Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops, 2013-14

4 workshops will be offered in this application cycle: 2 for single-author monographs, 1 for a digital publication (e.g. e-books, works between book and article length, web supplements for a print book, journal articles), 1 for a collaborative project (e.g. works of translation, multi- or collaboratively authored publications, edited collections).

Deadline: 03/22/2013

Johannesburg Workshop in Theory & Criticism Summer Session: Duke Faculty & Graduate Student Tuition/Travel Funding

As part of a new partnership between the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, the FHI is pleased to offer tuition and travel support for one Duke faculty member and one doctoral student to attend the Annual JWTC Summer Session in Johannesburg, June 23 to July 2, 2013.

Deadline: 03/18/2013

Human Rights Intern Paid (Duke Work-Study)

Are you interested in working on human rights activities at Duke and in Durham? The Duke Human Rights Center@FHI and the Pauli Murray Project seek an intern to organize and promote human rights-related events.

Deadline: 02/04/2013

Call for Abstracts and Posters: Water & Climate Change in Africa Workshop

A two-part workshop on Water and Climate Change in Africa will be held on March 22 (Part 1) and 23 (Part 2), 2013, at Duke University. Each day will bring together experts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to focus on a sub-theme of this broader topic: 1) Water, sanitation and health in Africa; and, 2) Water, food security and climate change.

Deadline: 02/04/2013

CFP: Faculty Book Manuscript Completion Fellowships, 2013-14

The Franklin Humanities Institute is now accepting proposals for Faculty Book Manuscript Completion Fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this program offers Duke faculty the opportunity to convene a manuscript workshop (Fall 2013) AND to receive one semester of course release (Spring 2014) in order to address the contributions of their workshop participants. Additionally, each Book MS Completion Fellow’s home department will be matched with a Visiting Professor who will take on the Fellow’s teaching duties. Two fellowships will be offered each year, with at least one in the Assistant rank.

Deadline: 11/16/2012

CFP: Humanities Laboratory, beginning Fall 2013

* Fall 2012 info session Wednesday October 3, 12:30pm, FHI Garage * The FHI is soliciting proposals for a Humanities Laboratory in Fall 2012, for a project commencing in the 2013-14 academic year. Proposals may be for a one or two year project. The FHI Labs are supported by Humanities Writ Large, a major campus-wide grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Deadline: 11/02/2012

Call for Applications: Digital Knowledge PhD Lab Scholars, 2012-13

The PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge is accepting applications for up to 12 Graduate Scholars for 2012-13. In our first year, the Lab will be sponsoring a number of workshops, symposia, and learn-by-doing initiatives designed to help doctoral students use new methods in their research, develop new teaching methods, and also face the job market with the most cutting-edge theories and practices surrounding digital forms of learning, teaching, online instruction, and collaborative online publishing and research. Interested students are encouraged to attend the Lab's info session on August 27 (1st day of Fall semester).

Deadline: 09/03/2012