2021-22 Race and the Professions Fellowship — Call for Applications

The Race and the Professions Fellowship is a program of the Purpose Project at Duke, a campus-wide, faculty-led effort cultivating moral purpose, fostering virtuous community, and promoting flourishing professions. The Fellowship is a year-long program inviting first-year Duke graduate and professional students to explore racial justice and anti-racism within the professions. All incoming, first-year graduate and professional students are invited to apply.

Eighteen Fellows will meet about a dozen times across Fall and Spring semesters for moderated conversations that will feature visiting speakers from a variety of professions. Each session will require modest preparation. Over the course of the year, Fellows will develop individual or joint proposals for summer projects aimed at ‘‘on-the-ground” racial justice and anti-racism work.

Fellows will have the option of applying for additional funding to support their projects. If funded, these projects will be showcased in Fall 2022.

Fellows each receive a stipend of $3,000 for the 2021-2022 academic year.

To apply use this link to fill out the Qualtrics application.

Deadline: August 15, 2021.

For further information, email Jesse Summers (jesse.summers@duke.edu) or David Toole (david.toole@duke.edu)