News Tip: Duke Faculty Available to Comment on Life and Legacy of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009)
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Duke University faculty are available to comment on the life and legacy of John Hope Franklin, the scholar who helped create the field of African-American history and dominated it for nearly six decades. Franklin died Wednesday at the age of 94.
Srinivas Aravamudan is professor and director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. He was recently named dean of the humanities in Arts & Sciences. Contact Aravamudan at: (919) 668-0337 or (919) 684-2640; srinivas@duke.edu.
William Chafe is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke and author of “The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890-2010.” Contact Chafe at: (919) 684-5436 or (919) 260-4202; william.chafe@duke.edu.
Cathy Davidson is the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English. She is co-founder of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke and is also the co-founder of HASTAC ("haystack"), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. Contact Davidson at: (919) 684-8471; cathy.davidson@duke.edu.
Karla Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. She also holds appointments in the Law School and in Women's Studies and African & African American Studies. She is the author of six books including "Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character" (1995), an examination of the connections between literature, politics, ethics and race, "Passed On: African American Mourning Stories" (2002) and her most recent "BookMarks: Reading in Black and White--A Memoir" (2006). Contact Holloway at: (919) 684-8993; karla.holloway@duke.edu.
Mark Anthony Neal is a professor of African American Studies, specializing in black popular culture, hip-hop and African-American literature and music. He is also the director of Duke’s Institute for Critical U.S. Studies. The author of four books, including “New Black Man,” Neal regularly blogs and writes Critical Noir, a column for Vibe.com. Contact Neal at: (919) 684-3987; dr-yogi@att.net.
Benjamin Reese is vice president of Institutional Equity at Duke. Contact Reese at: (919) 684-8222 or ben.reese@duke.edu.