Duke Prison Teaching
Part of the Prison Engagement Initiative, Duke Prison Teaching is a group of Duke faculty and graduate students committed to offering Arts & Sciences courses to incarcerated students as part of a degree program. While this effort is in progress, Duke Prison Teaching offers other kinds of educational enrichment in correctional facilities in the interim.
Butner Lecture Series
Our primary activity now is a monthly lecture series at FCI Butner. Upcoming and prior lectures in the Butner Lecture Series are listed below.
Upcoming 2025–2026 Lectures
“Americans in Wakanda: The Problem With Comic Book Heroes in Africa”
Kathryn Mathers
November 12, 2025
“Justice in the Weeds: Why People Reclaim Neglected Cemeteries”
Adam Rosenblatt
December 10, 2025
Previous 2025–2026 Lectures
“Gravitational Waves: What Happened and What Have We Learned?”
Ronen Plesser
October 8, 2025
“Remembering and Misremembering”
Elizabeth Marsh
July 9, 2025
“How to Write (and Publish) a Novel”
Katharine Dubois
August 20, 2025
2024–2025
“From the Invisible Hand to Supply and Demand:
An Introduction to What Markets Can and Can’t Do”
Jason Brent
August 22, 2024
“Britain in World War II – And How to Become a Historian”
James Chappel
October 10, 2024
“Cold War Architecture: Building ‘Little Americas’ Abroad”
Annabel Wharton
December 11, 2024
“Writing the Self: A Brief History of the Mind on the Page”
Mesha Maren-Hogan
January 13, 2025
“What is DNA and How Do We Know What It Does?”
Steve Nowicki
February 11, 2025
“Seeing is Believing: The Science of Visual Illusions”
Minna Ng
May 7, 2025
“The Adolescent Brain, its Strengths and its Vulnerabilities”
Nicole Schramm-Sapyta
June 4, 2025
“How to Make a Comic (Even if You ‘Can’t Draw’)”
Bill Fick and Adam Rosenblatt
June 25, 2025
If you have questions about Duke Prison Teaching or would like to be involved, please contact Jac Arnade-Colwill at jac.arnade-colwill@duke.edu.