The Archives of the Royal Asiatic Society, China
In September 2024 the Humanities Research Center launched its pilot partnership program with the Royal Asiatic Society, China (RAS). Under the supervision of DKU Associate Dean James Miller and DKU Archivist Ryder Kouba, students William Tran (DKU’28) and Elliot Aung (DKU’28) undertook the work of digitizing the library’s archives and catalog respectively. Background The RAS […]
Student Report on Having it All: Understanding Work & Family Dynamics in Contemporary Korea
By Nathan Franco, Class of 2028. On Monday, April 15th, 2025, two DKU faculty and 32 students gathered in person or via Zoom for a discussion on Work and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Korea, a research paper conducted by Hyeyoung Woo, a Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, in collaboration with colleagues from Seoul […]
DKU History Professors Receive UNESCO Grant Award
The HRC is proud to announce that Museums as Transnational Heritage Hubs: Civilian War Victims, Memory Networks, and Global Recognition, led by DKU History Professors Dr. Kolleen Guy and Dr. Jay Winter, has been awarded funding through the Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grants, supported by UNESCO. This project builds on the foundational work of Professor […]
HRC Student Worker Rebecca Combs Wins First Place at Stanford’s TreeHacks Hackathon
Rebecca Combs, a student worker at the Humanities Research Center (HRC) and a Computation and Design major from Duke Kunshan University’s Class of 2025, won a first-place award at Stanford University’s prestigious TreeHacks hackathon. The event brought together over 1,000 students from universities worldwide to develop technology solutions for real-world challenges. Combs and her […]
DKU HRC Celebrates Dr. Ben Van Overmeire’s New Publication in Journal of Chinese Philosophy
The DKU Humanities Research Center is pleased to share that Dr. Ben Van Overmeire, a professor in the Division of Humanities, has recently published an article in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy titled “Enlightenment in the Dark Forest: Chan/Zen in Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Trilogy.” Dr. Van Overmeire explores the Chan/Zen Buddhist elements woven into author […]
Congratulations to Yue Qiu, Former Research Assistant at the Freedom Lab, for Her Recent Publications
We are pleased to announce that Yue Qiu, a former research assistant at the Freedom Lab, has recently made significant contributions to the field of slavery studies. Her DKU signature work thesis, supervised by Titas Chakraborty, has been published in Slavery and Abolition, a leading journal in the field. The thesis, titled “‘Where Liberty is […]
Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie R. Anderson!
We are thrilled to celebrate the recent publications of Prof. Stephanie R. Anderson: Post45: Daisy Aldan and Women Midcentury Small Press Publishers – This insightful article explores the contributions of women publishers in the mid-century small press movement. Textual Practice: Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston: Textual […]
Celebrating Travis Wilkerson’s Achievements: Peer-Reviewed Publication, UnDo Fellowship, and Global Film Screenings
Congratulations to Travis Wilkerson on His Peer-Reviewed Publication, UnDo Fellowship, and Global Film Success Travis Wilkerson, Associate Professor, has recently achieved significant milestones in his career. His videographic essay, “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect: On ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ ‘79 Springtimes,’ and ‘The Little Girl of Hanoi,’” has been published in Volume 14.1 of Screen Works in […]
James Miller appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress
James Miller, co-director of the Humanities Research Center, has been appointed as a distinguished visiting scholar at The John W. Kluge Center of the LIbrary of Congress and will take up a four month residency there starting on September 5, 2023. The Kluge Center annually brings top scholars and researchers into residence at the Library […]
Congratulations to Stephanie Anderson, for her recent publications
Two of Stephanie Anderson’s works were published in the last few weeks: She co-edited the book All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364340/all-this-thinking/), and authored an article titled “Shiny Collisions: Editing as Serious Humor in dodgems” in the most recent issue of Women’s Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00497878.2022.2130314 Learn more about Stephanie’s inspirations […]
