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of the Center for Demographic Studies), the Chinese Populations and Socioeconomic
Studies Center, the Center for Research on the Evolutionary Demography of Aging, the
Center for Social Demography and Ethnography, and the Population, Policy and Aging
Research Center. Inquiries for training and research opportunities may be directed to Dr.
Kenneth C. Land, Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging and a member
of the DuPRI Board of Directors, Sociology Department, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-
0088.
Center for Documentary Studies
The Center for Documentary Studies, established in 1989, supports interdisciplinary
teaching and research along with the practice and dissemination of documentary work.
The center teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative
partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and
narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. The
Center’s graduate-level research focuses on a collaborative project titled “Behind the Veil:
Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,” directed by Duke professors
William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, but other research opportunities
also exist. Graduate students may participate in a variety of courses that the center offers
under the auspices of several Duke departments and programs, including art, history,
public policy studies, English, education, and cultural anthropology. Center-sponsored
projects offer a limited number of assistantships to graduate students in the arts and
humanities. For more information, check the CDS Web site at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/ or
contact the Director, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew Street,
Durham, NC 27705. Telephone: 919-660-3663. Fax: 919-681-7600.
Center for European Studies
The Duke Center for European Studies was established in 1989. In 1994 the U.S.
Department of Education awarded the consortium with a Title VI grant and designated it
as a National Resource Center. This grant was renewed for another three years in 1997. In
the summer of 1998, the European Union awarded the Center a three-year grant, and it
became one of the ten official European Union Centers in the United States. The Duke
Center for European Studies brings together a depth and quality of faculty drawn from
highly regarded departments in the humanities, social sciences, law, business and public
policy.
The Center promotes interdisciplinary programs, courses and research that directly
address questions concerning Europe and the European Union. The Center's goal is to
ensure that faculty, students and the larger community have access to the finest
scholarship and the most current resources on Europe. The Center offers a Graduate
Certificate in Interdisciplinary European Studies to those students meeting the
requirements listed on the Center Web site (see below). The Center hosts conferences,
workshops, and visiting scholars, supports a graduate student colloquium and faculty/
student working groups on focused research lines. The Center also supports Duke faculty
and graduate students with academic year research grants and travel awards, and graduate
students with the Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Summer International Research Fellowships.
For further information, please contact the Center for European Studies, Room 299,
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Box 90406, Durham, NC 27708; telephone
919.684.6449; or check the Center Web Site at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ces.
John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and
International Studies
The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is a
unique consortium of programs committed to revitalizing notions of how knowledge is
gained and exchanged. Participants from a broad range of disciplines converge to explore
intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political themes of our
Special Study Centers, Programs, and Opportunities 300