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Christina Chia

Associate Director, Strategy & Operation
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708-0403
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., B188C, Bay 5, Smith Warehouse, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Panelist. Humanities Laboratories at Duke University - Humanities for the Public Good · December 16, 2020 Other University of Iowa, Virtual Session
Panelist. University-Based Centers and Institutes as Spaces for Social Justice and Social Change - Raising Our Voices 2020 · November 10, 2020 International Meeting or Conference American Anthropological Association, Virtual Session
Co-Moderator. Advocacy and Humanities Administration During a Pandemic - Associate Directors and Administrators Network · May 26, 2020 International Meeting or Conference 2020 Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) Annual Meeting, Virtual Session
"From Instituional Memory to Institutional Research" - Associate Directors and Administrators Network · June 19, 2019 - June 22, 2019 International Meeting or Conference 2019 Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Annual Meeting, Trinity College Cublin
Panelist. The Work of Humanities Centers - Associate Directors and Administrators Network · June 13, 2018 - June 16, 2018 International Meeting or Conference 2018 Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, University of Virginia
Co-Chair. Associate Directors Network - 2016 Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Annual Meeting · June 28, 2016 - July 1, 2016 International Meeting or Conference School of Advanced Study, University of London,
Panelist. Interdisciplinary Futures: Applying PhD Skills Throughout the University · April 20, 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Program in Women's Studies & Duke Graduate School,
Co-Chair. Associate Directors Network Meeting - 2015 Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Annual Meeting · June 5, 2015 - June 7, 2015 International Meeting or Conference University of Wisconsin - Madison
Panelist. Humanities Careers Beyond the Tenure Track · April 8, 2014 Other Duke Graduate School,
"Fox/Dog: Notes on the Science of Canid Domestication" - Nonhuman: 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) · September 27, 2012 - September 30, 2012 International Meeting or Conference Milwaukee, WI
"Biting the Hand that Points: "Dangerous Dogs" and the Limits of Human-Canine Co-evolutionary Narratives" - Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global: 2012 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) · June 21, 2011 - June 26, 2011 International Meeting or Conference Indiana University Bloomington,
Panelist. Modes of Inter-UBIAS (University-Based Institutes of Advanced Studies) Cooperation - UBIAS in a Global Perspective: Promises, Challenges, New Frontiers · October 25, 2010 - October 28, 2010 International Meeting or Conference Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
"Interspecies Bonds and Social Divides in a Southern City" - Practices of Citizenship, Sustainability, and Belonging: 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association · November 5, 2009 - November 8, 2009 International Meeting or Conference Washington, DC
“Dog Days: U.S. Slavery in a Multispecies Frame" - Animals and Society Institute Human-Animal Studies Summer Fellows Program · July 2009 Invited Talk Duke University,
"Rethinking the Slave Hunt: On the Trail of Dogs and Humans in the Antebellum South" - 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association · October 16, 2008 - October 19, 2008 International Meeting or Conference Albuquerque, NM

Service to the Profession


Trustee · November 2019 - October 2022 Committee Service North Carolina Humanities Council,
Planning Committee - Associate Directors and Administrators Network Annual Meeting · 2019 Committee Service Consorium of Humanities Centers and Institutes,

Service to Duke


Board of Advisors · 2023 Other Sarah P. Duke Gardens,
Duke Global Task Force (Program) · May 2020 Committee Service
Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center Steering Committee (ex officio) (Center) · 2017 Committee Service
Co-Director . Story+ · 2017 - 2018 Event/Organization Administration
Director . Story+ · 2016 Other