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A Duke sociologist and co-author find a spike in the willingness of progressive Black churches to engage in politics during the Trump era.

New scholarly biography of Lula draws from decades of research to chronicle the union leader’s emergence as the voice of Brazil’s working class and...

Four new faculty members bring new perspectives to the Department of Classical Studies

Presentations from the students teams from their summer research

Initiated by dance professor Michael Kliën, the Social Dreaming Matrix attracts people from around the world to explore the common metaphors of their...

The Trinity College of Arts & Sciences announced a new incoming Dean of the Humanities in a message from Dean Valerie Ashby this week. Professor...

Faculty discussed the killing of George Floyd, current national protests and the history of civil rights demonstrations

The Trinity College of Arts & Sciences has announced the 11 winners of the 2019–2020 awards for Undergraduate Teaching, Leadership, Diversity and...

April is National Poetry Month. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, we wondered if Duke’s writers and literature scholars are turning to...

Team ensures that readers and scholars continue to have access to important books and journals

Black faculty create an effective structure to boost productivity and support each other’s scholarship

Duke-UNC scholarship on remarkable NC slave brings new perspective on Muslim history in America

Mark Anthony Neal explains why comedy has been a regular means of resistance

Gisela Fosado unites worthy ideas, authors with platform of Duke University Press

A Duke scholar's research on book clubs reveals that people form opinions differently on their own than they do in groups

Francisco Santos Calderón to visit Duke Friday, January 17

Author will accept award at a March 2 ceremony at Duke

Students in Story+ project explore the different sides to an abolitionist, political activist, feminist and warrior

The acclaimed fiction writer and Shakespeare scholar taught at Duke for almost 40 years.

The acclaimed fiction writer and Shakespeare scholar taught at Duke for almost 40 years.

The poet was a genius, but he also was a head of his time in attracting attention

Industry leaders share perspectives on working with academic and trade presses

Dirk Philipsen on the moment the world changed and what we get wrong about it

The latest publications from Duke authors

The opening of an exhibit exploring the foundations of housing inequality in Durham was celebrated Oct. 28 in the Classroom Building on East Campus...

A seminar series focused on language discrimination in fragile and precarious communities proposed by faculty in the Trinity College of Arts &...

Duke's Center for Documentary Studies is teaming with the SNCC Legacy Project to bring teachers to campus for training

On a campus where time rarely stands still, historic spots go on to have new lives

Undergraduate research and digital humanities storytelling at center of new library exhibit

A trip to New Zealand gave Duke Professor Walter Mignolo an opportunity to share the stage with a prominent Maori intellectual, Linda Tuhiwai Smith...

Naomi Quinn, a long-time member of the cultural anthropology faculty and a leading scholar of the connection between culture and personal cognition...

The Apollo missions to the moon — which culminated 50 years ago with man walking on the moon — delivered what President John F. Kennedy sought when...

From new mosques to stores specializing in halal -- food approved for Muslims -- there are signs all around the Triangle that the Islamic...

Student takes a deep dive into an early edition of 'Leaves of Grass,' one of the library's many Whitman treasures

Projects include telling the history of the pioneering women preachers of Duke Chapel

On World Refugee Day, we note how Duke students and faculty are involved in refugee issues from education to access to health care

Summer institute trains high school teachers about new ways of teaching about the civil rights movement

Student on Bass Connections team working with Project Vox

The state's up-and-coming artists sit for portraits by university students and alumni

Sometimes the best place for great music is on film. A four-week film series in June will celebrate Black Music Month by showcasing four films about...

Duke students in the Soccer Politics class weigh in on their favorite teams

Duke students in the Soccer Politics class weigh in on their favorite teams

A series of Duke initiatives prepare grad students for team-based work environments with emphasis on mentoring, communication

A series of Duke initiatives prepare grad students for team-based work environments with emphasis on mentoring, communication

Divinity faculty collaborate on retelling story of a Chinese Christian dissident

Caroline Stinson succeeded the retired Frederic Raimi

Gabriel Rosenberg brings advice on academics and dance music to dorm

Sydney Grob's Bass Connections team explored the power of words to help resolve trauma

Omid Safi on GOT's flawed characters and its challenges in portraying violence

In this video, English doctoral students Nora Nunn and Michelle Sroka and visiting assistant professor Astrid Giugni discuss their involvement with...

Smith is currently the director of Cornell University Press

It's a French national treasure, but Caroline Bruzelius says its value belongs to all of us

This spring, Duke authors have unusual stories to tell: The sublime but endangered snow leopard in Afghanistan; a Maoist group striking terror...

On February 21, 2019, Pop América, 1965-1975 opened at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University –  the first bilingual...

A tugboat co-owned by a Duke professor has been impounded by the Italian government after rescuing 49 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea and...

In collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (IM-UFRRJ), a Bass Connections project team...

Story+ is a 6-week summer research experience for students – undergraduate and graduate – interested in bringing academic research to life through...

Robin Kirk’s new novel for young adult reader imagines a dystopian world

“As scholars, we often find ourselves being asked to separate teaching from scholarship from service,” says Dr. Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Assistant...

What should doctoral training in the humanities and humanistic social sciences look like in the 21st century? This question has...

From Star Trek to the Second Amendment, books from Duke authors to spice up the fall season

Duke professor takes part in effort to rescue Mediterranean migrants in distress

New book from philosopher Alex Rosenberg on how our love of narrative gets history wrong

Two Duke events will highlight sexual harassment in the restaurant industry

In Story+, student teams complete an interdisciplinary humanities research project with a public storytelling component.

A new exhibit on the second floor of Bostock Library, next to the East Asian Magazine Reading Room, explores the truly global popularity of graphic...

Duke's resident soccer scholar has been inundated with media requests regarding the World Cup

Jaki Shelton Green, a native of Orange County, has been appointed North Carolina’s new poet laureate.

Duke MFA grad Tamika Galanis wants to document the Bahamas rarely seen by outsiders

As the World Cup kicks off, Laurent Dubois and his students talk about soccer politics and the 2026 North American Games

Anonymous gift honors the late Anne-Marie Bryan