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Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Benjamin Newton Duke was a cofounder of the Southern Power Company, later known as Duke Energy, and was one of the most significant benefactors to Trinity College, presently known as Duke University. In his honor, the B.N. Duke Scholarship Program was established to bring outstanding students from around the Carolinas to the University to provide an environment that fosters their academic excellence, community engagement, and aspirations to become leaders.

Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation, the Benjamin N. Duke fellowship at the National Humanities Center has been awarded annually since 1985. The Foundation is committed to promoting economic development within the Triangle and facilitating strategic partnerships that benefit both the region and the state of North Carolina.

1985–1986 Karl Theodore Hoppen University of Hull New Oxford History of England, Vol. XIV: 1846–1885
1986–1987 Marie Drew-Bear Universite Lyon II The Archives of the City Council of Hermoupolis in the Third Century A.D.
1987–1988 Shemaryahu Talmon The Hebrew University of Israel Literary Patterns and Speculative Thought in the Hebrew Bible
1988–1989 Daniel Gunn University of Maine at Farmington Ideological Rhetoric in the English Novel, 1748–1910
1989–1990 David Wallace University of Texas at Austin Chaucer in Florence and Lombardy: Political History and Poetic Form
1990–1991 Mark Seltzer Cornell University  Bodies and Machines
1991–1992 Jonathan Lamb University of Auckland Reading Job in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics and Aesthetics of Abjection
1992–1993 Richard A.S. Seaford University of Exeter Mystery Cult and Its transformations in the Greek City-State to the End of the Classical Period
1993–1994 Maureen Warner-Lewis University of the West Indies, Mona Caribbean African-Language Texts: Translation and Cultural-Linguistic Exegesis
1994–1995 Valery Podoroga Russian Academy of Science The Body and Writing: Strategies of Sensibility in Russian Literature and Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries
1995–1996 Devin Stewart Emory University Intertextuality in the Maqamat of al-Hamadhani and Islamic Religious Discourse
1996–1997 Donald Lopez University of Michigan Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
1997–1998 Tad Schmaltz Duke University Desgabets, Regis, and Constructions of Descartes (1663–1751)
1998–1999 Nicola Beisel Northwestern University Race and the Politics of Abortion in America
1999–2000 Kären Wigen Duke University Native Places, Global Times: A Century of Regional Rhetoric in Shinano
2000–2001 Deidre Lynch State University of New York at Buffalo At Home in English: “Loving” Literature in the Eighteenth Century and After
2001–2002 Frank Mort University of East London Sexual London: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change, 1945–63
2002–2003 Paulina Kewes University of Wales, Aberystwyth The Staging of History in Early Modern England
2003–2004 Lee Baker Duke University Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, 1892–1968
2004–2005 Kevin Ohi Boston College On the Queerness of Style: Henry James and the Erotics of Form
2005–2006 Scott Casper University of Nevada, Reno Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: African-American Life at an American Shrine, from Slavery to Jim Crow
2006–2007 James Sweet University of Wisconsin, Madison Domingos Alvares and the African-Atlantic Diaspora, 1710–1750
2007–2008 Erdag Göknar Duke University Between Orient and Nation: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Novel
2008–2009 Jessica Brantley Yale University Medieval Ways of Seeing: Image, Text, Artifact
2009–2010 Andrew Escobedo Ohio University Renaissance Allegories of the Will
2010–2011 Bayo Holsey Duke University Spectacles of Slavery: Marketing the Past in the New Millennium
2011–2012 Ernest Zitser Duke University The Vita of Prince Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin: An Annotated Translation
2012–2013 Morna O’Neill Wake Forest University Decoration and Display: British Art and International Exhibitions, 1888–1910
2013–2014 Anna Krylova Duke University A History of the Soviet: The Lingua Franca of Soviet Modernity
2014–2015 Jonathan Sachs Concordia University, Canada Decline and the Depths of Time in British Romanticism
2015–2016 Peter Carroll Northwestern University “This Age of Suicide”: Modernity, Society, and Self in China, 1900–1957
2016–2017 Ilya Kliger New York University Untimely Community: The Tragic Imagination in the Age of Russian Realism
2017–2018 Jennie Grillo Duke University The Afterlives of the Apocryphal Daniel
2018–2019 Joni Adamson Arizona State University Desirable Futures: Cosmos, Canon, and Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities
2019-2020 Agnes Kefeli Arizona State University Re-Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe: Eco-Nationalism and Eschatology in Tatar Literature, 1960–Present
2020–2021 Ryan Emanuel North Carolina State University Water in the Lumbee World: Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, and the Transformation of Home