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staff
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The
following people provide day-to-day direction for the Humanities
Institute. Whatever the Humanities Institute is or becomes,
however, is a reflection of the input of dozens, if not hundreds,
of people across the Duke campus who contributed to its initial
creation and provide the constant new energy for its ongoing
evolution.
For phone numbers, email addresses,
and other contact information for the staff, please refer
to our Contacts
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Director Srinivas
Aravamudan, Associate
Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from Cornell and came
to Duke in 2000. He specializes in eighteenth century British
and French literature and in postcolonial literature and theory.
His study, Tropicopolitans:
Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
(1999, Duke University Press) won the first book prize of the
Modern Language Association in 2000. A second book, Guru
English: South Asian Religion in Cosmopolitan Contexts
will be published by Princeton University Press in 2004. Aravamudan
was co-convener of the 2002-03 FHI Seminar on "Race, Justice,
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Associate Director Richenel
Ansano is past Director
of the Ministry of Culture of Curaçao, Dutch Antilles,
where he served as Director of Cultural Research and Cultural
Policy Advisor and as Curaçaoan Representative to both
the National UNESCO Commission and the intergovernmental Institute
for Cultural Cooperation between the Netherlands and the Dutch
Antilles. Ansano’s interests include oral history, Afro-Caribbean
studies, cultural policy, the arts, spirituality, and energy
medicine. |
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Mellon Project Manager Anne
Mitchell Whisnant
coordinates programming funded through the Humanities Institute’s
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for “Making
the Humanities Central,” awarded to the Humanities
Institute in 2002. Whisnant received her Ph.D. in United States
History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
where she focused on the the social and cultural history of
the Appalachian South during the New Deal. She is presently
completing a book on the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway which
will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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Program Coordinator Yvonne
Connelly took a 20-year detour through healthcare
administration and medical writing and editing before returning
to her roots in the humanities. In addition to providing administrative
and logistic support to the FHI and the Franklin Seminars, Yvonne
hopes to get back to her research in medieval studies and complete
a novel she began while living in Norway and Germany. |
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