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26-637: The Franklin Humanities Institute is part of a consortium of interdisciplinary research centers and institutes at Duke University. It was formerly located at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke, and is now located in the historic Smith Warehouse on Duke's East Campus. The Franklin Humanities Institute was founded in 1999 by Cathy Davidson , then Vice Provost for interdisciplinary Studies, and Karla F.C. Holloway , former Dean of

52-412: A new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate. During the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case , Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the " Group of 88 ", published an open letter viewed as prejudicial to the three defendants. The letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing

78-450: A post-doctoral fellow, and professional staff at the university (e.g. librarians, IT specialist). Conceived as a "laboratory" for humanists from diverse disciplines, each annual seminar focuses on a theme or problem with broad historical, philosophical, or geographical scope. To date, there have been seminars organized around two general areas: "Race" (1999–2003) and "Art, Ideas, and Information" (2004–08). The 2007-08 seminar, Recycle, explored

104-622: Is an American scholar and university professor. Beginning July 1, 2014, she is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . She was a professor of English at Duke University in 2006. She has authored or edited 18 books. Her work focuses on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age. Davidson was born in Chicago , received a B.A. from Elmhurst College , an M.A. and Ph.D. from

130-649: The Binghamton University , and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago . She has received honorary doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University . Davidson was a professor of English at Michigan State University . She served as vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University from 1998 to 2006, with administrative responsibility for over 60 research programs in Duke's nine academic and professional schools. She

156-595: The Ciompi Quartet violinist Hsiao-mei Ku, Radio France Internationale Correspondent Dominique Roch, the writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman , as well as John Hope Franklin himself. The Mellon Annual Distinguished Lecture in Humanities has featured well-known scholars from many fields and from across the globe, including the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah , the British filmmaker Isaac Julien ,

182-797: The Smithsonian Museum of American History . She served as General Editor of the Oxford University Press Early American Women Writers Series and, with Ada Norris, edited American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa , the first Penguin Classic devoted to a Native American author. Her book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn

208-1026: The BorderWorks Lab, the Global Brazil Lab, the AudioVisualities Lab, and the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge. In addition to the Annual Seminar, the Franklin Humanities Institute also runs a dissertation working group for graduate students. FHI also includes other long-standing "signature" programs, including the Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops. The Annual Lecture and Short-term Residencies bring world-renowned scholars to Duke for public engagements with

234-561: The CHCI was based at Harvard University. Srinivas Aravamudan was the director of the FHI before he took the position as Dean of Humanities at Duke University in 2009. Ian Baucom was the director of the FHI before he took the position of Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia in 2014. David Bell served as the interim director of the FHI in 2014–15. In Fall 2010

260-710: The Dutch cultural theorist and video artist Mieke Bal , the Indian historian Romila Thapar , and the US literary critic Emory Elliott . In 2006, Duke joined five other American universities - Brown, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the Missouri School of Journalism, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison - in a venture with Apple Computer to test iTunes U , a web-based tool designed for faculty and students to share digital content, such as audio, video and images. As one of

286-531: The Ernest L. Boyer Award for significant contributions to American higher education. Davidson is the author or editor of 18 books. Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (a collaboration with documentary photographer Bill Bamberger ) was a recipient of the Mayflower Cup Award for Non-Fiction . The photographs from Closing traveled to museums around the U.S. for four years, including

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312-723: The FHI inaugurates the Seminars in Historical, Global, and Emerging Humanities, a major new initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. The grant explores the states and directions of humanities disciplines in light of the interdisciplinary developments in recent decades, through an expansive set of partnerships with Duke's humanities and interpretive social sciences departments and non-departmental units. The Franklin Humanities Institute sponsors an annual residential seminar consisting of Duke faculty, graduate research fellows,

338-604: The FHI moved to the renovated Smith Warehouse on Duke's East Campus, near the heart of Durham's historic Downtown district. The Warehouse is home to the Humanities Laboratories initiative, which aims to contribute to Duke's research and pedagogical missions by convening groups of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates around discipline-crossing projects, in spaces designed specifically to facilitate collaborative work. Complementing historic strengths in supporting faculty and graduate scholarship (notably through

364-729: The Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for their book The New College Classroom . At this time, Davidson was the only author to have received this award twice, having won in 2019 for her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux. Ciompi Quartet The Ciompi Quartet is a string quartet at Duke University , Durham, North Carolina , United States, where they were founded in 1965 by Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. All members of

390-691: The Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2002, the institute received a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Making the Humanities Central." The grant was renewed for a second three-year cycle in 2005. In Spring 2007, the FHI became the new administrative headquarters of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) , an international organization that supports interdisciplinary humanities scholarship and institution-building. Prior to moving to Duke,

416-576: The Mellon Foundation's Humanities Writ Large grant. These limited-term labs include dedicated space in the historic Smith Warehouse home of the FHI, and are organized around a research area and specific projects and promote vertical integration among undergraduates, graduates, and faculty. These have included the Haiti Lab, the GreaterThanGames: Transmedia Applications, Virtual Worlds, and Digital Storytelling Lab,

442-648: The Year awards from the World Technology Network in recognition of "doing the innovative work of 'the greatest likely long-term significance' in their field" of education through their work as co-founders of HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. She was named the first educator on the six-person Board of Directors of Mozilla. In 2016, the New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) awarded Davidson

468-519: The advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players. In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the Raleigh News & Observer in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response "to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in

494-436: The appropriation of cultural products in different contexts. This seminar was co-convened by Neil De Marchi (Professor of Economics), Mark Anthony Neal (Associate Professor or African and African American Studies), and Annabel J. Wharton (William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies). In 2011 The Franklin Humanities Institute began sponsoring Interdisciplinary Humanities Labs, with later support from

520-414: The information age. In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple Computer , to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media. The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired

546-845: The lacrosse house." In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities , a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011. She serves on the Board of Advisors to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Digital Media and Learning" book series. A former president of the American Studies Association , she is also a former editor of the journal American Literature . In 2012, Davidson and Goldberg received Educators of

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572-652: The participants on the Duke iTunes U project, the Franklin Humanities Institute has made a number of its public events available for download as video and audio podcasts. Many of the FHI Humanities Labs have included substantial digital dimensions in their research outputs as well. These have included collaboratively-produced websites, art installations, mobile applications, online maps, and games. 36°00′08″N 78°54′53″W  /  36.002119°N 78.914857°W  / 36.002119; -78.914857 Cathy Davidson Cathy N. Davidson (born 1949)

598-536: The twelve Annual Seminars they hosted between 1999 and 2011), the Labs invite undergraduates to participate as researchers themselves, helping to define emerging and future areas of humanistic inquiry. Since 2011–12, the Lab initiative became a key element of Humanities Writ Large, a major university-wide Mellon Foundation grant. In 2012-13 the undergraduate-focused Labs were joined by the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge. In 2014-15

624-631: The university community. The Faculty Bookwatch series, presented in conjunction with the Duke University Libraries, highlights notable recent books by faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The FHI's public programs have also included Wednesdays at the Center, a popular lunchtime conversation series open to the general public. Since 2002, series speakers have included the Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham,

650-535: Was named by Publishers Weekly "one of the top ten science books" of the Fall 2011 season". One reviewer from The Washington Independent Review of Books opined that Davidson "makes the case, through numerous examples and lucid argument, that we can do much better in aligning our schools, our workplaces and our lives, and that this will make us not only more successful as a society but more fulfilled as individuals." In 2023, Davidson and Christina Katopodis were awarded

676-489: Was responsible for designing technologies for research, teaching, and learning, and in 1999 helped create ISIS, the program in Information Science + Information Studies at Duke. In 2002, Davidson co-founded with David Theo Goldberg the virtual organization Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory HASTAC , an international organization dedicated to rethinking the future of learning for

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