The Duke University Press - now an official campus partner of the Franklin Center - is a premier scholarly publisher in key interdisciplinary areas such as cultural anthropology, cultural studies, American studies, Latin American studies, and critical race studies. The Press has also been one of the most active academic presses in the nation in mentoring promising graduate students and junior faculty in the humanities. In collaboration with the Press, the Franklin Humanities Institute sponsors several programs:

Workshop and Lecture Series on Scholarly Publishing

Supported by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Institute sponsors an annual series of workshops and lectures on practical concerns of getting published and on broader intellectual questions of the role and future of scholarly publishing in American intellectual life. This series, planned in cooperation with the Duke Press, joins Press staff and University faculty and graduate students to focus attention on matters such as turning a dissertation into a first book, the growing economic crisis in scholarly publishing, the politics and possibilities of scholarly journal publication, the state of publishing in particular academic fields, and other related issues.

Click here for the 2002-03 schedule of publishing events

Internships at the Duke University Press

The publishing series is coordinated primarily by two Duke University Press interns, one graduate and one undergraduate, whose employment is financed by the FHI, with support from the Mellon Foundation. In addition, these internships provide two humanities students the opportunity to work in the editorial department at the Press and learn first-hand about the career of scholarly publishing.

Interns are hired each fall for the academic year. To inquire about this program, contact the Making the Humanities Central Project Manager, Anne Mitchell Whisnant.

John Hope Franklin Center Book Awards

“With the publication of this distinguished set of books, the Press is proud to continue the great and necessary work pioneered by John Hope Franklin. These excellent books cross periods, disciplines, and national borders and establish new paths of their own.”
-- Ken Wissoker, Editor-in-Chief, Duke University Press.

The Duke Press publishes four books annually under a “Franklin Center Book” imprint. These titles - all of which relate to the theme of the Franklin Seminars - are chosen jointly by the Duke University Press faculty Board of Advisors and the Seminar Fellows, and costs of publication are supported by a generous subsidy from the Office of the Provost.

Recent Franklin Center Books:

A Time for Tea: Women and Post/Colonial Labor on an Indian Plantation, by Piya Chatterjee

Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner, 1492-2019, by Serge Gruzinski

Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial, by Karla FC Holloway

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, by Elizabeth McHenry

Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past, by Patricia M. Pelley

Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, by Maurice O. Wallace

A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, by James Williams, Edited and with an Introduction by Diana Paton

Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil, by Jonathan Warren