FHI provides a broad array of opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to engage with humanistic ideas and practices. In addition to our core programming (events open to all, speaker visits with special student opportunities) and our Labs and affiliated Centers (all with their own offerings of working groups, fellowships, assistantships, and more), we offer a number of programs specifically designed for students.
On the curricular front, the undergraduate Human Rights Certificate continues to flourish hand in hand with the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI’s more general programs on racial justice in voting, immigration, and environmental policy.
FHI is committed to serving as a site for graduate research and degree completion through Interdisciplinary Working Groups, structures which allow doctoral students to build their own intellectual communities around shared interests. With Art, Art History & Visual Studies and the Literature Program, we are an institutional co-sponsor of the PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures.
We regularly offer summer opportunities for humanities graduate students in research, teaching development, and career enhancement. Some recent programs have included research fellowships at the Stuart Hall Archive at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Digital Humanities Course Development Assistantships at North Carolina Central University, as part of the FHI's long-running partnership with NCCU.
More generally, the FHI strives to be a “home away from (departmental) home” for humanities graduate students: an intellectual hub where they can interact with faculty scholars across the disciplines (Duke and elsewhere, US and international) and develop a broad perspective on what it means to be an intellectual in a time of change.
With the support of the University-wide Bass Connections program, FHI was previously home to the vertically-integrated summer research program Story+, which combines hands-on research with storytelling to create dynamic outcomes for diverse public audiences. The last edition of Story+ ran in Summer 2023.