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Faculty Advisory Board
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Juliette Duara
Juliette Duara is a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Duara’s research interests include investigating the viability of human rights as an ethical system for the 21st century, […]
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Nina Balmaceda
Nina Balmaceda is a scholar-practitioner whose work focuses on civic leadership development and education for peace and reconciliation. Nina is president of Peace and Hope International, a nonprofit that works […]
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Cecilia Márquez
Cecilia Márquez is an Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of […]
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Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes received her PhD from UC Irvine and is an Assistant Professor in History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke. Her first book, Intimate Communities: Wartime […]
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Adam Rosenblatt
Adam Rosenblatt is an Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies at Duke. He researches at the intersections of human rights, social justice, and care of the dead. […]
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Rebecca Carter Steorts
Rebecca Carter Steorts is an Assistant Professor at Duke University with appointments in the departments of Statistical Science, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Computer Science. She was a visiting Assistant Professor […]
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Adam Hollowell
Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor at Duke University. He is also the Faculty […]
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Mona Hassan
Mona Hassan is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & History at Duke University in the departments of History and Religious Studies and the program of International Comparative Studies. She obtained […]
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Priscilla Wald
Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science, medicine, environmental justice, and law, myth and religion, […]
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Saskia C. Cornes (she/her)
Dr. Saskia Cornes took the helm at the Duke Campus Farm in June 2014. She received her formal farm training on the 30-acre farm at UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology […]
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