2.1.3: John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute

Stake out a more directly engaged public role for the Duke humanities.

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Building on the legacy of Dr. John Hope Franklin and affirming that humanistic scholarship can and should inform and enrich present debates, policies, public discourse, and community life, the FHI will seek to stake out a more directly engaged public role for the Duke humanities. Among its advancement strategies, the FHI will enable more opportunities for unrestricted faculty research fellowships in residence. To diversify the cultural scope of Duke's curriculum and further infuse interdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning into undergraduate education, the FHI will also devote considerable effort to curriculum development, such as interdisciplinary gateway courses for humanities majors and team-taught by distinguished senior faculty.

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• John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute: The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) was founded in 1999 to be an interdisciplinary center dedicated to supporting the humanities. The institute encourages serious humanistic inquiry across a wide range of disciplines throughout the university and fosters an awareness of the centrality of the humanities to a broad, historically grounded university education. Through an array of innovative programs, the FHI seeks to encourage conversations, partnerships, and collaborations that stimulate humanistic research, writing, and teaching.

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