“Layers and Lines” reveals Roberta Allen’s life in her own words. This video essay follows Allen’s evolution from fear-ridden child to brave writer, visual artist and teacher. Her novel The Dreaming Girl is available from Ellipsis Press.
Oct 10, 2011A morality tale fitted for our times, “The Zeroes” provides a ringside seat to some of the biggest parties of the last decade. This 5-part series pits the fantasy of unlimited growth against the wheeling-and-dealing of Wall Street’s glitzy surface.
Oct 14, 2011Anne-Marie Angelo is a PhD Candidate in Duke’s History Department. Her dissertation focuses on Black Panther groups in the U.K. and Israel — two potent movements that, like their U.S. counterparts, fought for equal rights and to have their voices heard.
May 15, 2012Kristina Jacobsen has recently completed her dissertation on the life of a group of musicians on the Navajo Nation. In this film, she discusses her time as a performer with Native Country Band, the nuances of the Navajo language, and what it was like living in a hogan.
Feb 14, 2012Brian Goldstone studies Pentecostal churches in traditionally Muslim areas in the north of Ghana. In this region where miracles are taken as a common occurrence, Goldstone asks what this belief system says about Western society.
Feb 14, 2012Orin Starn casts his anthropological eye on two topics most academics wouldn’t touch: celebrity scandal and golf. Dissecting the social and political strands of “Tigergate,” Starn’s book gets at the heart of American culture in the 21st Century.
Nov 02, 2011In 2010, a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti. The international community pledged billions, yet a year later two million people still lived in tents. This 5-part web series examines the burning question: what happened to all that money?
Oct 18, 2011
It was Halloween, and I was driving home through an unknown part of Durham. In the middle of an otherwise normal-looking neighborhood, I saw a wild patch of tall, sinewy trees. Looking closer, I barely made out old stones — grave stones.
Oct 31, 2011
