Mabel Gergan has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her work in Sikkim, India on hydropower development and indigenous youth agency.

Erika Wise has been awarded an NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) award for her research on “Detection of Long-term Variability in Storm Tracks Using Seasonally Resolved Tree-ring Isotope Records: Implications for Hydroclimatic Change in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.” The … Read more

Mike Emch has been awarded an NSF Geography and Space Science award for his research on “Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Drug Resistant Malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” The award will run for three years from 9/1/13. Awarded amount: $345,000.

Yousuf al-Bulushi who has been awarded a Mellon Mays Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to support dissertation writing on his South African research.

Chris Courtheyn has been awarded an Inter-American Foundation Fellowship to conduct a year of field research on the Peace Community of San José de Apartado, Colombia.  

Willie Wright has been awarded a 3-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation to build on his work with Black farmers in Eastern North Carolina.

Gaby Valdivia who was just awarded an NSF grant (2013-2015) for a collaborative proposal entitled “Collaborative Proposal: The Impact of Oil Extraction, Regulatory Policy, and Environmental Practice on Native Amazon and Afro-Ecuadorian Communities.”  The award is through the Cultural Anthropology division. … Read more

Nina Martin who has been selected as the next CURS Scholar-in-Residence.

Qi Zhang  who has been awarded a Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2013.

Jon Duncan was awarded the first Keohane Professional Graduate Student Award.  Below is a description of the award, and why Jon was selected. Nan Keohane was Duke’s eighth president (1993 to 2004). She and former UNC Chancellor James Moeser worked … Read more