Appendix 1
Illustrative Examples of Experiential Learning Projects and Internships in the Humanities at Duke University
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Project or Intern |
Discipline of Faculty Leads and/or Organization of Community Sponsor/Host |
Major Outputs & Description of Research |
Bass Connections
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Integration of Technology and Storytelling to Create a Visual Art Exhibit on Women's Health |
History; Romance Studies; Biomedical Engineering |
Documentary film about a new medical device that makes cervical cancer screenings more comfortable and accessible, upgrading women's healthcare, especially in lower-income settings. |
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Documenting Durham's Health History: Understanding the Roots of Health Disparities |
Pediatrics; Public Policy; Partnership for a Healthy Durham |
Exhibition that incorporates maps, images, and interviews to convey racial disparities in the health of Durham residents over the past century. |
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The Construction of Memory at Duke and in Durham: Using Memory Studies |
Cultural Anthropology; Cartographies/SAVAS; Pauli Murray Center for Social Justice |
Website, report and campus map that analyze the racial and gender patterns of public memorials at Duke, and put forward proposals to create an inclusive public culture on campus |
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Project Vox: Recovering the World of Women Philosophers in Early Modern Europe |
Philosophy; Duke Libraries; Art, Art History & Visual Studies; |
Website with biographies of early modern women philosophers, compilations of their writings and related primary and secondary sources, and teaching resources |
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The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense |
Public Policy; History; Cultural Anthropology; Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro |
Website and Documentary that draw on interviews, statistics, and analysis of government reports to assess the outcomes of higher education policies in Brazil. |
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Neurology; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Nasher Museum of Art) |
Exhibition catalogue and Interactive website that explores how we process images of human, non-human, and digitally altered faces |
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Arts and the Anthropocene: Crisis and Resilience in North Carolina Waterways |
Music; Art, Art History, and Visual Studies; Experimental and Documentary Arts |
Art installation that illustrates how visual, theatrical and sonic arts can educate, and provoke reflection and action in the face of our climate crisis. |
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History; Law; Former North Carolina Commissioner of Banks |
Website with data visualizations, policy analyses, business case students, and an extensive oral history archive with more than 80 interviews about state-level mortgage markets and regulation in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis |
Story+
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An Illustrated Memoir of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The Maria de Bruyn Papers Speak |
Global Health/Cultural Anthropology; History of Medicine Collections; Independent Scholar |
Graphic novel narrating the global HIV/AIDS pandemic based on materials from the Maria de Bruyn Papers in Duke’s Rubenstein Library |
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African and African American Studies; Duke Council on Racial Equity |
High school lesson plans (Black Barbershop; Service and Citizenship; Black Armed Resistance) for a variety of classes, derived from the archive of Left of Black vlog episodes, with accessible materials and primary sources, discussion questions, and project ideas |
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Beyond Despair: Narrating the Environment through the Humanities |
National Humanities Center |
A pilot podcast, drawing on archival recordings of NHC interviews with resident scholars who focus on some aspect of the environmental humanities. |
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Joining the Electric Circus: Rural Electrification and Gender in the Papers of Louisan Mamer |
Museum of American History |
Historical Report on the role of gender in American rural electrification, a Draft Script for the Smithsonian demonstration program, “Cooking up History,” a set of oral histories, and a Washington Post op-ed linking the experiences of rural electrification to the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan. |
Data+
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English |
Created website that deploys digital mapping technologies and draws on the interpretive approaches of history, literature, and philosophy to envision how best to memorialize the enslaved persons who lost their lives in the Middle Passage. |
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English |
Developed website that draws on text mining methods to trace the publication history, geographical spread, and evolving content of versions of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe |
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Visualizing Suffering: Tracking Photojournalism and the Syrian Refugee Crisis |
English |
Tracked the distribution of photographs that depicted the Syrian Refugee Crisis to assess which images of refugees and migrants resonated with news avenues (article). |
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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Wrangling of card catalogue into a useable database, interactive app, and search tool, with subsequent use of topic modeling to identify marginalized voices within special collections |
Humanities Labs
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History; Romance Studies |
Duke’s first Humanities Lab; investigated Haitian history and culture, with a particular focus on the social experience of and recovery from the 2010 earthquake. Projects included an art installation and interactive digital maps (lab website) |
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Slavic Studies; Global Health; Dermatology and Global Health; Writing Program |
Facilitated collaborative innovations among health practitioners and scholars in the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences, such as this documentary on the role of the housekeeping staff at Duke Hospital. |
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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Music; Literature |
Focused on the booming field of sound studies; projects include a pathbreaking Sonic Dictionary and a web collection, Provoke!, that showcases new modes of deploying sound in scholarly analyses. |
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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Classics |
Explored story-making in multiple genres through a storytelling festival, sketchbook project, zine, novel writing, and a series of courses. |
PhD Student Internships
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Hannah Ontiveros (History, 2020) |
Church World Services Durham |
Researched strategies for fundraising and community outreach, including interviews with congregational partners and CWS staff |
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Joshua Strayhorn (History, 2020) |
National Humanities Center |
Partnered with NHC staff to develop online modules and supplementary materials for high school educators around how to teach about race, and connect historical episodes to our current moment. |
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Brooks Frederickson (Music, 2020) |
So Percussion Summer Institute |
Developed an online curriculum to replace the usual in-person summer experience, focusing on collaborative modules that introduced young musicians to composing and performance of innovative music. |
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Ben Sarbey (Philosophy, 2021) |
The Hastings Center |
Collaborated with a national team of bioethics scholars to research the implications of dementia for decision-making in end-of-life ethics and health policy (related opinion piece) |
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Hannah Read (Philosophy, 2021) |
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) |
Assessed current social and emotional learning strategies, articulated their value to educators and policymakers, and facilitated implementation of these strategies in partner schools across multiple states |
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Jessica Covil-Manset (English, 2021) |
Duke University Press |
Researched awards, wrote descriptions of books for catalogs, scheduled tweets to advertise books and events, formulated questions for Q&As with authors, and created posts for DUP’s blog |