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Lab-curated in-person & online exhibition considers the troubling legacies of cultural heritage acquisition alongside histories of human curiosity, creativity, and resilience

The Entanglement Project kicks off 2023-24 programming

Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness Lab hosts artists, curators, & theorists The Otolith Group; Strange Life and Ecologies of Knowledges to roll out programs in coming weeks

Research Professor Wesley Hogan Awarded NEH Grant for SNCC Collaboration

Grant-funded initiative aims to make the grassroots narratives of the civil rights movement accessible to a broader audience

Celebrating the Work of Professor Diane Nelson, 1963-2022

Full video now available of the memorial celebration held at FHI in April 2023 in honor of the beloved Cultural Anthropology professor

The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute affirms the importance of scholarship that is both situated specifically and that has a global reach. We attend to cultural paradoxes and elements of change and continuity, recognizing the significant, dynamic impact of cultural production on the development of political spaces and academic disciplines.

Ranjana Khanna, Director, Franklin Humanities Institute

Research

Grant Initiatives, the Entanglement Project, Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops, Proposal Consultations, and Faculty and Postdoc Working Groups

Education

Story+, Graduate Working Groups, the Undergraduate Certificate in Human Rights, the PhD in Computational Media, Arts, & Cultures

Engagement

tgiFHI, Left of Black, Faculty Bookwatch, John Hope Franklin Legacies Series, Duke-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellowships, and Theme Series

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Recent FHI News

FHI's 2022-23 Annual Report Now Live

Manuscript Migration Lab Debuts Rubenstein Library Exhibition