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Charmaine DM Royal

Robert O. Keohane Professor of African & African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Duke Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
234 Friedl Bldg, Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0141
Office hours By appointment  

Selected Grants


Tom Russell Charitable Foundation

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Tom Russell Charitable Foundation · 2020 - 2025

Implementation and Implications of Sickle Cell Trait Screening in the NCAA

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

U.S. PUBLIC PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND GENETICS

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2021 - 2023

Duke Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Workshop

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by James Madison University · 2022 - 2023

Racial Healing & Relationship Building

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association of American Colleges and Universities · 2022 - 2022

Duke-Durham: One Community¿Multiple Voices (Duke Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Center)

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association of American Colleges and Universities · 2019 - 2020

Duke-Durham: One Community Multiple Voices (Duke Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Center)

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association of American Colleges and Universities · 2017 - 2020

Duke-Durham: One Community¿Multiple Voices (Duke Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Center)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association of American Colleges and Universities · 2017 - 2019

Understanding the Intersection of Stigma and Self-Management in Sickle Cell Disease

FellowshipSponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019

Public Perspectives and Experience Regarding Genetic Ancestry Testing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2016

Perspectives and Experience Regarding the NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Testing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Collegiate Athletic Association · 2013 - 2015

Ethics as a Guide for the Use of "Race" and Ancestry in Research and Clinical Practice

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Greenwall Foundation · 2009 - 2015

External Relationships


  • BioLogos
  • Illumina
  • The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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