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 and will be paired with a librarian mentor to help navigate their research experience. 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:

• Priyah Parkash ("From 23% to 4% of the Population, Pakistani Religious Minorities Continue to Suffer")
• David Marin Quiros ("Finding Home Through Migration: Narratives of Queer Refugees")
• Isaiah Mason ("Crossing the Cultural Divide: Healthcare Access for African Migrants in Northern and Southern Italy")
• Gabriela Fonseca ("Black, White, and Brown? Complicating the Racial Dichotomy through an Analysis of Latinx Racialization")
• Maria Sybilla Merian ("Digital Naturalism: Entomology VR Inspired")
• Tessa Delgo ("Filipina Care Labor Migrations")
• Maya Ghanem ("Queer Muslim Environmentalisms")
• Amira Axelle Miel ("Visualizing Philippine Overseas Employment")
• Jason Liang-Lin ("A New Look at Cleopatra: Egypt, Rome, and Beyond")
• Jurica Miklobusec ("Scramble for Western Sahara")

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.