Emily with students and faculty on a trip to Lowndes County, AL, in 2015 as part of the partnership with Catherine Coleman Flowers and the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. |
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Welcome Back Students and Farewell to Emily |
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To returning students, the Class of 2025, and all our constituents,
As this pandemic continues, we hope that you are finding the people and resources you need to navigate this ever-changing situation, and please reach out to us if there are ways we can support you this academic year.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the departure of Emily Stewart, the DHRC’s Assistant Director, who has been with us for nine years. Emily has been an integral part of the DHRC's growth and work: handling all communications and events, advising students and assessing the Human Rights Certificate, cultivating a team of undergrad and graduate students every year to work with the Center, and mentoring the Student Advisory Board. She's also led us into important new areas of engagement, specifically the Teaching for Equity Fellows program, racial equity partnerships that serve staff, a seven-year collaboration with Catherine Coleman Flowers and the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and working with Native students to co-create a Land Acknowledgement Committee. We are grateful for the many ways she’s shepherded human rights, racial equity, and Environmental Justice partnerships, for the passion she brought to her work, and for the relationships she nurtured. Thank you for the last nine year and we look forward to staying connected and hearing what you will do next. If you want to stay in touch with Emily, please feel free to reach out to her directly in the next week to get her personal email address.
We are grateful to be in community with you and look forward to seeing you at events and in class, communicating through newsletters and one-on-one Zoom meetings, and collaborating on human rights opportunities.
Sincerely,
Faculty and staff at the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI
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2021-2022 Teaching for Equity Fellows Update |
In August, 50 faculty from across Duke participated in the orientation for the Teaching for Equity Fellowship. It was the first session in a year-long series of workshops that give faculty tools to better engage all students in virtual and in-person classrooms, labs, and learning spaces. The two cohorts include faculty from Trinity College, Pratt, Sanford, Divinity, Nicholas, CDS, the School of Nursing and School of Medicine. These fellows join a network of over 200 faculty who have participated in the program since 2015. The 2021-2022 cohorts are sponsored by the Office for Faculty Advancement, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and the Duke School of Medicine and School of Nursing. Read more.
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Native American Student Alliance in the Chronicle "The Urgency of Now: Duke Must Take Action to Support Native American Students" |
"The Duke Native American Student Alliance (NASA) is writing an open letter to Duke University. In this letter, we explain how Duke University has failed to adequately support Indigenous students. Then, we outline ways that Duke can better meet its goal of becoming an anti-racist institution. This would not only benefit Native American students at Duke but also Indigenous communities throughout North Carolina." Read more.
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Interview with "Reeducated" Creators Sam Wolson and Ben Mauk |
Gargi Mahadeshwar: What first brought you to covering Xinjiang?
Ben Mauk: I first traveled to the border of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang, China in the summer of 2018 for the New York Times Magazine. My subject was the Belt and Road, an infrastructure and trade mega-project vaguely centered around a remote dry port at the Chinese-Kazakh border. Read more.
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Join the Student Advisory Board |
The Student Advisory Board for the DHRC@FHI is made up of both undergraduate and graduate students at Duke, and works to promote human rights debate and dialogue on campus through hosting events that seek to engage and inform the university about human rights issues on Duke’s campus, in the United States and beyond. Applications are due on September 4 at 11:59 and can be found here.
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Call for Submissions: Juan E. Méndez Book Award |
The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America honors the leadership and legacy of Juan E. Méndez, a champion of justice who has devoted his life to the defense of human rights. Méndez is the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and current Professor of Human Rights Law at American University. The award recognizes an outstanding book of non-fiction, including graphic works, published in English on human rights, democracy and social justice in contemporary Latin America. Read more.
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Call for Papers: Columbia Journal of Politics and Society |
The Journal of Politics & Society, the United States’ premier interdisciplinary journal of undergraduate scholarship in the social sciences, published by the Helvidius Group of Columbia University is seeking original, creative, and rigorous articles in the fields of political science, economics, sociology, history, psychology, linguistics, law, anthropology, criminology, cultural and area studies, development studies, and demography. Submit your work here.
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2021 Human Rights Research Grant Recipient Updates |
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Carcerality and Climate Justice: Prison Ecology in Alabama and California - Liyu Woldemichael ('22) |
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Crossing the Cultural Divide: Healthcare Access for African Migrants in Northern and Southern Italy - Isaiah Mason ('22) |
"My research this summer focuses on healthcare access for African migrants in Northern and Southern Italy, to serve as the foundation for my senior thesis. This project synthesizes my interests in public health with my studies of Italian language and culture throughout my time at Duke. Additionally, I chose Italy as a site of study because of the interplay between regionalism and the public healthcare system. In Italy, there is a national health service, known as the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN), that is administered on a regional basis." Read more. |
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Studying the Role of Desalination in Water Scarcity and Management - Ekta Patel (4th year Ph.D Student) |
"My dissertation examines water management norms through the study of seawater desalination, the technological process that removes salts and minerals from saline water like the ocean to produce drinkable water. Often desalination is framed as a technical supply “solution” to the problem of water scarcity, which will affect 1.8 billion people by 2025. But desalination’s known downsides — such as its high financial costs, large energy needs, local community impact, and environmental harm to marine life — as well as its yet-to-be-seen effects make it socially, economically, environmentally, and politically contentious." Read more. |
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The History of Eugenics and the Human Betterment League of North Carolina - Cydney Livingston ('22) |
"This summer I am laying groundwork for my senior thesis, centered around the Human Betterment League of North Carolina (HBLNC). My fascination with the history of eugenics arose from my long-standing interests in human biological and sociocultural evolution. Eugenics represent an interesting intertwining of the two. I chose to assess North Carolina both because it is my home state and because NC played a surprisingly large role in the eugenics movement nationally and internationally." Read more.
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Coping with Crisis: How WASH Humanitarian Actors in Egypt and Sudan Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Opportunities for Resilience - Hadeel Hamoud ('22) & Sama Elmahdy ('22) |
"This summer we laid the foundation for our project, setting us up for primary data collection and analysis in the fall. Our project centers around identifying challenges and opportunities for resilience and capacity building among international and local organizations, UN agencies, and other humanitarian actors working to expand and enhance access water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) so they can better face crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic." Read more.
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Immersive Journalism on Xinjiang: Covering Human Rights in China - Tonight at 5:30PM |
Please join us TONIGHT for the first event in our 2021-2022 Rights, Genocide, and Surveillance in China series. Ben Mauk and Sam Wolson speak about Xinjiang and "Reeducated", an award-winning immersive virtual reality documentary chronicling human rights abuses against Uyghurs in China.
Ben Mauk (he/him): Mauk writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books. He co-founded and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. In 2021, he co-developed and wrote an immersive V.R. documentary for The New Yorker on life inside a Chinese reeducation camp which won jury prizes at SXSW, VRHAM!, and the NewImages Festival.
Sam Wolson (he/him): Wolson is an award-winning immersive film director, photographer, and Pulitzer Center Grantee. In 2021 he premiered the virtual reality documentary “Reeducated,” in partnership with The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Center, Eyebeam and Online News Association.
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center@the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the Department of Religious Studies, the Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. Additional cosponsors include Duke Divinity School, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic.
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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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