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What does the Arts & Humanities DAE do?
The humanities disciplines use historical, philosophical, and artistic approaches to study the human condition. Humanistic knowledge plays a crucial part in the education of the individual and the betterment of society. Duke nests the Arts within the Humanities and at Duke you will find an array of practitioners, historians, theorists, and interdisciplinary scholars to provide you with a holistic view on creative, visual, and performing arts field and industries.
Academic Advising for majors/minors/certificates is provided by each arts program/department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS). The Academic Advising Center provides synopses of major advising here, and overarching advising support can be provided by a Director of Academic Engagement (DAE) or a specialized advisor. There are also Trinity Ambassadors who offer informal peer advising.
As of May 1, 2024 the Arts & Humanities DAE position is vacant but should be filled before the end of summer. Students can schedule general advising meetings with the AAC, or email with questions to advising@duke.edu.
Degree granting departments and programs: African & African American Studies; Art, Art History & Visual Studies including Cinematic Arts and Museum Theory and Practice; Asian & Middle Eastern Studies including Asian American Diaspora Studies; Classical Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Dance; Documentary Studies; English including Creative Writing; Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; German Studies; Global Cultural Studies/Literature; History including Inequality Studies; Information Science+Studies; Jewish Studies; Latino Studies in the Global South; Latin American Studies; Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Music; Philosophy; Religious Studies; Romance Studies including French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; Slavic & Eurasian Studies; Theater Studies.
Research and Creative Scholarship Programs of Note:
- Bass Connections (particularly teams under Information, Society & Culture; Race & Society; and the OPEN theme)
- Digital Art History and Visual Culture Lab (provides projects and team-based research focused on visual and material culture through critical engagement with digital technologies housed with the Art, Art History, Visual Studies department)
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Labs (housed at the Franklin Humanities Institute in Smith Warehouse)
- Duke Arts Studio , project-based mentorship from Duke Alums in the arts, media & entertainment industries in collaboration with Alumni Engagement & Development.
- DEMAN An industry-anchored alumni network connecting alumni working in creative professions with each other, with campus, and with students. Located within Alumni Engagement & Development with collaborative connections to Duke Arts, arts departments, student arts groups, and artists from the local community.
- Plus programs (particularly Arts+, History+, I&E+, Data+, Applied Ethics+) for team-based, summer, stipend-based, campus-located research.
- SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows) and the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship in the Undergraduate Research Support Office