Projects

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Built on a fundamentally collaborative model fitting Duke’s emphasis on facilitating interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, the Franklin Humanities Institute supports an array of projects dedicated to stimulating creative and fresh humanistic research, writing, and teaching - among Duke faculty and students as well as across institutions, in the wider scholarly community. 

Projects

Annual Distinguished Lecture

The FHI Annual Lecture features distinguished scholars, writers, and artists from around the world.

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Short-term Residencies

This program brings noted scholars, artists, and other cultural figures to Duke for short-term visits organized around public lectures and intensive mini-seminars for faculty and graduate students.

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Faculty Book MS Workshops & MS Completion Fellowships

This newly expanded set of programs offers faculty the opportunity for workshops on book manuscripts and a semester's course release

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Mellon HBCU Fellowship Program

This program offers year-long residential fellowships for faculty in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Interdisciplinary Working Groups

The FHI supports cross-disciplinary working groups in fields of long-established scholarly import and emerging areas of the humanities.

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Graduate Digital Scholarship Initiative

A new initiative to prepare graduate students for the changing landscape of scholarly research and publishing 

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Faculty Bookwatch

Jointly organized with the Duke Library, this series celebrates notable recent books by Duke humanities faculty.

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Annual Seminar (1999 - 2011)

From 1999-2011, the FHI's core program was an Annual Seminar that convened Duke faculty and graduate students from across the humanities.

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Gallery Programs (2010 - 2011)

A year-long exhibition series focusing on contemporary African American, Caribbean and Diaspora arts.

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