Campaign: Recognize Black Faculty Scholarship
Our goal in celebrating 50 years of Black faculty scholarship at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences was threefold: 1) raise the visibility of Black faculty across Duke's campus; 2) strengthen relationships among the Black faculty community itself; and 3) contribute to our ethos of diversity and inclusion as a driver for innovation and excellence. Special thank you to Penelope Nye (video), Catherine Angst (video), and Camille Jackson (video).
The yearlong campaign included:
- development of a permanent commemorative web presence
- promotion of all Trinity’s Black faculty members
- private dinners with Black faculty, hosted by the dean, documented with slideshows
- recognition of the scholarly achievements of Trinity’s Black faculty
- a tribute to the late Professor Raymond Gavins—a genuine force for change at Duke and the first African-American to join the Duke history faculty
- promotion of Black faculty scholarly books
- promotion of the Inaugural Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Awards
- a tribute to the late political scientist Samuel DuBois Cook, the first African-American professor to hold a regular rank faculty appointment at any predominantly white college in the South
- the launch of the Trinity Distinguished Lecture Series, dedicated to raising the visibility of Black faculty scholarship on Duke's campus
- promotion of Mark Anthony Neal’s inaugural Trinity Distinguished Lecture through an email campaign, infographics, and a video of the talk
- videos capturing the experiences of select Black faculty members with the longest tenure in the college
