Graduate working groups help to create more avenues of support for doctoral students and one in particular seeks to emphasize experimental literary writing as a unique mode of thought.| News RSS Feed
The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute bids farewell to retirees Mary Williams and Pam Montgomery, two key figures who have helped ensure its success over the decades.| News RSS Feed
The Charmaine McKissick-Melton Communications Fellowship embeds NCCU Mass Communications majors in working communications offices throughout Duke University.| News RSS Feed
The lab seeks to engage with histories of enslavement, empire, apartheid, and anti-colonial struggle informed by Black thought and creativity today.| News RSS Feed
Rosenblatt brings his expertise in anthropology, activism, and arts-based research to look at how we uncover the past to shape the future of human rights.| News RSS Feed
The FHI-led team presented their work at an international conference that spotlighted the impact of previously erased jazz and blues musicians of the past and the woman who worked to bring them back into the spotlight.| News RSS Feed
The workshops at FHI, which began in 2008, have grown to be a vital component of faculty development by providing strong writing assistance.| News RSS Feed
A cross-institutional summer workshop was created to help understand how climate change affects people in different parts of the world, especially those who have been historically oppressed.| News RSS Feed
The fellowship, focused on the legacy of the noted cultural theorist and political activist, gives Duke graduate students an opportunity to research Hall’s historic work archived in England.| News RSS Feed
Press Release on the Upcoming Fifteenth Season of "Left of Black" Web Series| News RSS Feed
With a multi-year investigative project, the "Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records" Bass Connections team digs into Duke archives to understand race, gender, and representation.| News RSS Feed
“The green of growing things calms me. Plants stabilize me,” the poet and academic Camille Dungy writes in her 2023 memoir Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. On April 18, appropriately timed to the peak of mid-spring bloom,| News RSS Feed
Each year since 2020, as part of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute convenes a jury to present the Franklin Humanities Institute Award to a short film that highlights documentary as a formally inventiv| News RSS Feed
2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. This year also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Duke.| News RSS Feed
Duke Campus Farm Program Director and FHI Assistant Professor of the Practice| News RSS Feed
From our colleagues at the Manuscript Migration Lab: The Franklin Humanities Institute, the Manuscript Migration Lab, Lib| News RSS Feed
Author Nabil Ayers — born from the union between Louise Braufman, a white Jewish former ballerina, and American funk, soul, a| News RSS Feed
Over the next two years, veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and humanities scholars will engage communities surrounding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and civil rights and Afri| News RSS Feed
Left of Black, the longest-running web series at Duke University, announced today that it has been nominated for Best Video Series in the category of Science & Education in the 27th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New Yo| News RSS Feed
When Research Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Pedro Lasch inaugurated the Social Practice Lab at the Frank| News RSS Feed
Banner image: Undated photograph of John Hope Franklin (with green tint). University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-09790, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. “Reconsidering ‘The Historian in the| News RSS Feed
UPDATE May 2024: Please find links to Zoom videos below. The links listed under each session will open the fastest-loading videos av| News RSS Feed
After leading a team of undergraduate student researchers who examined Duke University’s entanglement with the tobacco industry during the summer pro| News RSS Feed
In collaboration with Screen/Society, the Franklin Humanities Institute is happy to announce an international film series on Antigone as part of its World Arts series. These four films are not strictly adaptations of Antigone| News RSS Feed
Banner image: Entrance of Duke Chapel, following removal of Robert E. Lee statue. Photo by Ian Jaffe / Duke Chronicle.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: April 4, 2025. The Franklin Humanities Institute seeks proposals from working groups organized around topics of cross-disciplinary concern in the humanities, arts and interpretive social sciences. Groups will receive up to $2,000.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: March 4, 2025. The Franklin Humanities Institute provides funding and support for the development and completion of scholarly monographs.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: February 3, 2025. The Franklin Humanities Institute and the Stuart Hall Archive Project invite applications from Duke Ph.D. students in the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: December 20, 2024. The Franklin Humanities Institute invites internal applications or nominations for a faculty director or co-directors of the Duke Human Rights Center at the FHI (DHRC@FHI), beginning July 1 for a 3-year renewable term.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: Rolling. All Duke faculty are eligible for this opportunity; FHI will give preference to regular rank faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.| News RSS Feed
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FACULTY BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOPS – Spring 2025 Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2024 This CFP applies to workshops intended to take place in late Fall| John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute