Introducing Kelsey Desir, Our 2024-25 Public Scholarship Fellow

Doctoral student Kelsey Desir is the Anne Firor Scott Public Scholarship Fellow for 2024-25. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English. We asked her to introduce herself.

Doctoral candidate Melissa Karp reflects on the April 2024 workshop on memorials and memorial museums.

In this essay, doctoral candidate Thea Ballard takes up the mission of the Forum to bring programs at Duke into conversation with programs in the surrounding community, exploring the Nasher’s exhibit, “Spirit in the Land,” and Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Spring 2023 performance at the Pinhook in downtown Durham.