Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grant

Duke University Libraries Summer Research Fellowship for LIFE Students

Overview

The Duke University Libraries Summer Fellowship is awarded to first-generation and/or low-income undergraduate students to support library research. The goal of the Summer Research Fellowship is to strengthen opportunities for 1G and low-income students by providing financial support for original research projects. Qualified projects can be at any stage of completion and research may be conducted utilizing resources within Duke University Libraries. The Summer Fellowship is meant to encourage deeper engagement with library resources including special collections and archives and offer students in need the opportunity to further explore their research interests. Students will have a faculty or staff member as a mentor, will be paired with a librarian mentor to help navigate their research experience, and will have a graduate student mentor to offer regular support to the cohort of fellows. Ultimately, students will gain confidence in research skills that will support them throughout their academic and professional careers.

Examples:

• Continue research on a Story+ or Data+ project using special collections
• Build upon a recent paper or research project you completed in a previous course
• Extensively use library collections (such as University Archives or government documents) for a senior thesis
• Use the foreign language collections at Perkins Library
• Undertake any interdisciplinary research project involving extensive use of library collections

To learn about the projects undertaken by past Summer Fellowship recipients, see their reflection blog posts on the library website:

• Korey Cadiz ("An Approach to Reconciling Western Medicine with Native Hawaiian Healing")
• Lhamo Dixey ("Sacred Geographies, Sacred Geometries")
• Letar Jia ("Social Media Usage and Its Impact on Global Tibet")
• Umang Dhingra ("Exploring the Troubled Teen Industry")
• Jurica Miklobusec ("Scramble for Western Sahara")
• Jason Liang-Lin ("A New Look at Cleopatra: Egypt, Rome, and Beyond")
• Amira Axelle Miel ("Visualizing Philippine Overseas Employment")
• Maria Sybilla Merian ("Digital Naturalism: Entomology VR Inspired")
• Tessa Delgo ("Filipina Care Labor Migrations")
• Maya Ghanem ("Queer Muslim Environmentalisms")
• Gabriela Fonseca ("Black, White, and Brown? Complicating the Racial Dichotomy through an Analysis of Latinx Racialization")
• Isaiah Mason ("Crossing the Cultural Divide: Healthcare Access for African Migrants in Northern and Southern Italy")
• David Marin Quiros ("Finding Home Through Migration: Narratives of Queer Refugees")
• Priyah Parkash ("From 23% to 4% of the Population, Pakistani Religious Minorities Continue to Suffer")

Awards are granted up to $4500 to cover expenses such as campus housing, lodging, meals while conducting research, online trainings, and digitization expenses. Because research expenses can vary depending on the field of research and the duration of the project, students are able to pool Fellowship funding with other awards.