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Polly Ha on a Hidden World of Dissent and Forbidden Manuscripts
This is a summary of a story on the Office for Faculty Advancement site. Polly Ha is associate professor in the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, and a Provost Faculty Fellow. She is now a faculty director for Transformative Ideas, a Trinity College program that supports the Provost’s Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry and Belonging. What first got you interested in your field? I grew up in California. Suddenly, as an undergraduate, I found myself immersed in a new culture across…
October 5, 2026This is a summary of a story on Duke Faculty Advancement. Few people pursue a Ph.D. or a research position so they can chair an academic department someday. Many faculty end up in the department chair role because they are asked to do so, or out of a s...
June 24, 2026Duke Faculty Advancement asked Duke leaders what they were reading and watching this summer. Duke President Vincent Price is reading “Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000.” Provost Alec Gallimore is watching a l...
April 14, 2026More than 100 Duke faculty — from Justus Adamson to Junjie Zhang — were promoted to the professor rank in 2025 or hired at the rank of full professor since last year’s list. Their schools include Divinity, Fuqua, Law, Medicine, Nicholas, Nursi...