Global Focus

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  Crossing the Cultural Divide: Healthcare Access for African Migrants in Northern and Southern Italy

  By 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 […]

   
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  Studying the role of desalination in water scarcity and management

  By Ekta Patel When I first pitched the topic of my dissertation on global water management in early 2020, I envisioned seeking insight in the “field” — rushing from building […]

   
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  Students Receive Human Rights Research Grants for Summer 2021

   
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  Let’s Not Forget – The Fight Continues

  Kyra Josephson (Duke University ‘18) Kyra Josephson grew up in Thousand Oaks, California and graduated from Duke University in 2018. While at Duke, Kyra studied History and Markets and Management […]

   
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  Dark Side of the Mining Industry in China: Conversations with Black Lung Patients

  by Yanping Ni, first-year graduate student in the East Asian Studies program. In the past months, a documentary titled “Miners, the Horsekeeper, and Pneumoconiosis 矿民, 马夫, 尘肺病” has been very […]

   
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  Reflections on “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz”

  By Srishti Saha, Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science, ’21 The DHRC@FHI hosted a screening of “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz”  (directed by Barry Avrich) on January 22. […]

   
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  Updates from Camasca!

  By Anisha Watwe, Duke University Class of ’21 Since I’ve been away, a conversation I’ve had way too frequently with some of my friends and family starts a little like […]

   
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  Adjusting to a new place

  By Esther Kwarteng  Prior to arriving in Camasca, Honduras, I was anxious. I wasn’t sure how to feel about being the only Black woman in a town that does not […]

   
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  Getting to Know Puerto Rico and Myself

  By Ivan Robles, ’20 I had anticipated that spending part of my summer in San Juan, Puerto Rico doing qualitative research would be one of my biggest challenges yet. Although […]

   
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  Interview with 2018 Mendez Book Award Winner: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

  Duke University named Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno’s book, There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia (Nation Books, 2018) as the winner of the 2018 Juan […]

   
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