Apply For a Human Rights Research Grant! |
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Currently enrolled Duke undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for summer research funding from the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI. The goals of the grants are to strengthen research opportunities for students interested in developing, implementing and working in human rights. Special consideration is given to students whose research projects contribute to a senior thesis or project. Grants are available of up to $2,000. All applications and letters of support due by March 1, 2021. Learn more.
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#BlackQueerKidsMatter by Rezilience Williamson, '21 |
"As a Black queer woman, I’ve observed that people are always curious about how I was able to survive childhood and how I still move in this world. For queer kids, survival means rely on anything from sex work to hiding in the closet. Black queer kids are quite resilient, even though we deserve better from our communities. Most representation and research about Black queer youth fixate on pain and struggle, so they rarely highlight our strength and resilience. I wanted get a range of stories, so I set up life history interviews with other Black queer students to hear their stories and journeys through their own eyes." Read more.
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NYT Book Review: How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor |
"The book spotlights an unpleasant and complicated problem — the lack of proper waste sanitation in rural America — and the phenomenal toll it takes on public health and dignity."....Read the complete review of Catherine Coleman Flowers' new book Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.
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The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis | The New Yorker |
"When Pamela Rush was a young woman, in the late nineties, she moved into a trailer on an orange-dirt road in Collirene, Alabama. Rush’s home sat on half an acre of land, surrounded by lush woods, and her sister Almedia lived in another trailer on the same plot..." Read more.
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Bridging the Gap Episode 1: Diversity, Discomfort and Discrimination (Part 1) |
Listen to the inaugural episode of Bridging the Gap, a collaboration between The Bridge and The Chronicle, two student publications at Duke. Part 1 of this episode focuses on what diversity often means emotionally for those students on campus who have dealt with discrimination.
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Funding Opportunities to Address Race, Racism and Systematic Inequalities |
As part of Duke’s anti-racism efforts, Provost Sally Kornbluth, along with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and The Graduate School, is offering 3 funding opportunities to support faculty and graduate students in research and development around race and racism.
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2020 Oliver Koonz Human Rights Prize |
Current undergraduates are invited to enter essays or projects related to human rights in our annual Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize competition. You can learn more about the Prize and previous winners by visiting the website. All submissions due by April 1, 2021.
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Why the Human Rights Certificate? Interviews with Sarah Kane and Daniel Raftis |
Sarah: "I was really interested in international affairs in high school, especially as it relates to human rights. So when I found out about the human rights certificate during Blue Devil Days, I was really excited to get a chance to get a foundation in human rights. After I took the intro class, I realized this was the path I wanted to pursue in my career and I was hooked!"...Read more.
Daniel: "One reason I decided to pursue the human rights certificate was to learn more about the stories, history, and politics of global refugees in order to better understand the community in which I was serving as a part of the Kenan Refugee Project. My second motivation to take the certificate was because I felt it would provide me with a unique lens into the world of health care..." Read more.
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Help Duke Dorms Hibernate Over Winter Break |
Help Sustainable Duke and Housing and Residence Life give your dorm a break! Duke Students can reduce energy use and help their dorms hibernate this winter break by following these energy efficiency tips! Learn more here.
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Duke Magazine: Special 2020 Issue |
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Duke Magazine's mission is to facilitate and strengthen alumni engagement as a champion of the university's vibrant intellectual community. Their storytelling is in service of the curious minds of our alumni. You can read the special 2020 issue of the Duke Magazine that covers a lot of personal realizations here. You can also see previous editions and other updates here.
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Free Undergraduate Social Justice Retreat |
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If you are an undergraduate student residing in NC next semester and would like to dive deeper into your own social identities, the dynamics of power and privilege and how to enact positive change. apply to Common Ground! Common Ground is hosted by the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) and the Center for Race Relations (CRR), a student organization at Duke University. Learn more about Common Ground. To apply, visit here. Applications are due on November 29, 2020! Due to COVID-19, Common Ground will be held virtually during Spring 2021.
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GradEngage: Community Engagement Fellowships |
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Supported by The Purpose Project at Duke, GradEngage is an opportunity for twelve Duke graduate students to deepen a partnership with a North Carolina community during winter break and spring semester. GradEngage fellowships create opportunities for students to explore their vocation and the purpose of their graduate work by engaging with a community on a pressing social issue. Application deadline: December 1, 2020. Learn more and apply. |
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Book Event with Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret |
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In this powerful book, Catherine Coleman Flowers tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Learn more about the book and register for this event.
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion "The Other Side of Oil" with Crude Accountability |
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The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program and Crude Accountability present The Other Side of Oil, a documentary film which raises the important issues of environmental degradation, social justice, and poverty. Join director Lukpan Akhmedyarov, videographer Raul Uporov, and Sergey Solyanik, for a viewing and discussion of the film on December 2.
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The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings about global human rights issues. |
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