HLP Director, & Bass professor of public policy and history, Gunther Peck, and POLIS Research Director. & associate professor of public policy, Deondra Rose, are delighted to announce a new fellowship for non PPS majors, up to four Democracy Fellows, who will collaborate with Political Engagement Project (PEP) fellows in supporting the political and leadership […]
This year, students in the online “Immigrant Dreams, American Realities” course taught by HLP Director Gunther Peck learned about the history of migration to the United States and conducted research on historical immigration topics of their choosing. Students created a set of public-facing deliverables to communicate their learning to the outside world. Some of these […]
This past year, the “Elections in a Pandemic” Bass Connections student research team researched and implemented innovative strategies to increase voter participation in the 2020 election. While ten student teams operated in different focus areas, three in particular stood out for their work which went above and beyond. The Transportation team, consisting of Grant Lyerly […]
Hart affiliated creative writing teacher Faulkner Fox wrote a reflection on her experience in Georgia with Durham get-out-the-vote group, Bull City Votes in the midst of the run-off elections and the storming of the capitol. “What do these most recent Georgia victories mean to Professor Fox? “They mean that the South, a place with a […]
Professor Tony Brown has been teaching at Duke for 27 years and his signature course, PPS265S Enterprising Leadership, is a consistent student favorite. Enterprising Leadership is a results-oriented undergraduate leadership development course which seeks to provide students with analytical competence, leadership identity, and personal agency important to exercising enterprising leadership in organizations, in communities, and […]