Projects

Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective

Rosetta Reitz was a 20th century feminist writer, business owner, and record and concert producer. She produced nearly 20 albums of the music of the early women of jazz and the blues. She also wrote a mushroom cookbook and a book about menopause, and produced multiple live multi-artist productions and presented multimedia lectures about the history of women performing the blues.

We are a multidisciplinary, intergenerational research collective comprising archivists, a professional singer/songwriter, academic research staff with sociocultural anthropology and digital humanities expertise, and graduate and undergraduate students from across a variety of schools and disciplines at Duke University.

Our project is supported by Bass Connections, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in addition to the Forum @ FHI.

Haiti Comics

Historian Laurent Dubois worked with Haitian artist Rocky Cotard to create a comic book about the Haitian Revolution for use in K-12 and college classrooms.

“The Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti” is available to read online, to download as a PDF, and for purchase in print in English, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese.

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South

Fall 2019

The Forum for Scholars and Publics, in collaboration with the Power Plant Gallery and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University, was excited to help bring Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South to North Carolina.

The Power Plant Gallery and the Forum at Duke organized and presented a full slate of events in dialogue with the exhibition.