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

UNC-Chapel Hill, in partnership with Duke University, will host the conference “ReOrienting the Veil” Feb. 22-23 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center.  For further details see, http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/muslim-veil-conference/ The conference website is: http://veil.unc.edu/conference/