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FHI Practitioner in Residence, Catherine Flowers, named one of Alabama’s 2017 Women Who Shape the State!
Wednesday, September 20, 2017We are pleased to announce that our FHI Practitioner in Residence, Catherine Flowers, has been named one of Alabama’s 2017 Women Who Shape the State by the online publication, This Is Alabama. Congratulations Catherine! Catherine Flowers, the 2017 FHI Practitioner in Residence, is... read more »
New Study Finds Hookworm in Rural South - FHI Practitioner in Residence Catherine Flowers
Wednesday, September 6, 2017Tropical diseases such as hookworm exist in the rural South according to a just released Baylor University study (subscription required). The findings highlight health risks from a lack of wastewater infrastructure. “Hookworm is a 19th century disease that should by now have been addressed, yet... read more »
Announcing new cohort of FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows (2017-18)
Wednesday, August 23, 2017Cross-posted at the Humanities Futures initiative website The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the second cohort of North Carolina Central University-Duke University Digital Humanities Fellows. A key component of the FHI’s Mellon Humanities Futures initiative, the FHI-NCCU DH... read more »
NEH Funds Summer Institute on Civil Rights for High School Teachers
Monday, August 7, 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 7, 2017 - PDF here Media Contact: Robert Korstad, rkorstad@duke.edu, https://history.duke.edu/people/robert-korstad Durham, North Carolina -- The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced an award in the amount of $188,974 to Duke University to support... read more »
NEH funds Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities at Duke
Monday, August 7, 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 7, 2017 - PDF here Media Contact: Victoria Szabo, ves4@duke.edu, https://aahvs.duke.edu/people/profile/victoria-szabo Project Website: https://digitalhumanities.duke.edu/vardhi Durham, North Carolina -- Duke University has received a grant from the National... read more »
Ranjana Khanna Appointed to Lead FHI Beginning 1/1/2018
Thursday, July 13, 2017Ranjana Khanna, a noted interdisciplinary and feminist scholar, has been appointed the next director of Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), to begin January 2018, Provost Sally Kornbluth announced this week. Khanna, who is a professor of English, Literature, and Gender, Sexuality... read more »
Saskia Cornes Appointed Assistant Professor of the Practice
Thursday, June 22, 2017The Franklin Humanities Institute is proud to announce the appointment of Duke Campus Farm Program Manager Saskia Cornes as Assistant Professor of the Practice (half time). Cornes holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where her dissertation focused on the... read more »
Announcing the Social Movements Lab
Thursday, June 1, 2017The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the launch of a new humanities laboratory, Social Movements, beginning Fall 2017. Co-directed by Michael Hardt (Duke University) and Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna), the lab has two central premises. One, it will approach its analysis... read more »
Pauli Murray House Named a National Historic Landmark
Wednesday, January 11, 2017The US Department of the Interior/National Park Service has designated the Pauli Murray Family home at 906 Carroll Street in Durham a National Historic Landmark. The Pauli Murray Family Home in Durham, North Carolina, is associated with ground-breaking civil rights activist, lawyer, educator,... read more »
