The web art magazine Hyperallergic has a very nice review of Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire. Check it out!
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The web art magazine Hyperallergic has a very nice review of Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire. Check it out!
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The Duke Chronicle has a nice story up on Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide, the Lab’s student-curated exhibit currently on view at the Perkins Library Gallery.
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Lydia Thurman (T’15) is a BorderWork(s) student and Robertson Scholar who participated in the “At Home/On the Wall” group independent study in Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. Lydia has written two op-eds in The Chronicle that address issues of interest to BorderWork(s). Check them out!:
On coal mining: You’re with us, or you’re into child porn
On Yemen: Optimism: a first-world commodity
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Duke sophomore, Patrick Oathout, was featured in a session of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Meeting titled “The Wisdom of Failure: Building a Culture of Creative Problem Solving,” where panelists shared approaches that have proven to be successful. Oathout presented on his own “creative solutions” project, “Uhuru Mobile.”
As part of an independent study in the BorderWork(s) Lab, Oathout developed a mobile phone application titled “Uhuru” that allows users to submit reports on entrepreneurial activity via SMS messaging, email, a webpage and Twitter. Full Story: HERE Video of the presentation at the Clinton Initiative (at 4:20min): HERE
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Duke History Department Professor & BorderWork(s) Co-Director Philip Stern received the American Historical Association’s (AHA) 2011 Forkosch Prize “in recognition of the best book in English in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.” He received the prize at the AHA’s 126th Annual Meeting on January 6 in Chicago. Professor Stern’s colleague in the Duke History Department, Dr. Anna Krylova, was also honored with the AHA’s Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.
For a full AHA article and list of award recipients, click HERE
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Anne-Marie Angelo, TA for BorderWork(s), is a 2012 recipient of Duke’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. (Full list of winners here:https://gradschool.duke.edu/gsa/programs/mentoring/index.php)
Anne-Marie is a Doctoral Candidate in Duke’s Department of History, studying under William Chafe. She works on foreign perceptions of the U.S. during the twentieth century, with specific emphasis on the civil rights movement and its interactions with global racial formations. Her dissertation examines the Black Panther Parties of Israel and the United Kingdom, with reference to the Black Panthers in the United States.
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Borderwork(s) core faculty member Robin Kirk’s essay “Occupy Human Rights”is featured on the Duke Today Opinion page.
See the Opinion page here.
Or go directly to Robin’s article.