Duke Humanities Writ Large

Our Goal:

Humanities Writ Large aims to infuse the undergraduate experience with opportunities to conduct humanities research and thereby learn how humanities fields contribute valuable new knowledge through humanistic analysis, perspective and methods. This is a provocative challenge to the traditional paradigm that research needs to be restricted to faculty and graduate students experts, and also supports Duke’s broader goal of increasing undergraduate research in all fields. Our belief is that early exposure to humanistic research and analysis helps students become more thoughtful architects of their own education and more sophisticated consumers of the humanities throughout their lives.

Faculty Funding Paths for Undergraduate Research

CFP: "Out of the Box" Undergraduate Research

All faculty who teach undergraduate students are invited to submit proposals to develop new spaces and innovative configurations for mentored undergraduate research within or connected to the humanities or interpretive social sciences. 

The Humanities Writ Large Steering Committee is eager to support a wide range of research methods and possibilities for collaboration, innovation, and distinctive types of learning.  We encourage you to “think outside the box” and come up with intriguing proposals that experiment with unexplored structures for undergraduate research.

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CFP: Support for Graduation with Distinction Programs

The Humanities Writ Large initiative seeks to support innovations in mentored research for undergraduates specifically within the humanities and interpretive social sciences that lead to graduation with distinction projects. 

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The HWL effort augments a larger Trinity College of Arts & Sciences (TCAS) effort to strengthen the culture of undergraduate research by funding initiatives to increase the number of Duke students engaged in faculty mentored research that leads to graduation with distinction projects. TCAS is considering proposals from individual departments or programs, multiple departments or programs, as well as from institutes, centers, or other interdisciplinary combinations.