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Gilbert Wilson Merkx

Gilbert Wilson Merkx

Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Sociology
Sociology
gw.m@duke.edu
Duke Box 90402, Durham, NC 27708-0006
103 John Hope Franklin Center, Box 90402, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants

Supporting Literacy and Posters in Tanzania.

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by H.T. Ewald Foundation · 2014 - 2017

Fulbright Hayes Dissertion Awards

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2014 - 2016

Duke University Center for International Studies NRC

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2010 - 2015

2013 Fulbright-Hays DDRA

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2013 - 2015

A Human Rights and Islamic Law Program

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Open Society Institute, New York · 2013 - 2014

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2010 - 2011

National Resource Centers

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2006 - 2011

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2009 - 2010

National Resource Centers

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2006 - 2010

National Resource Centers & Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2006 - 2010

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2008 - 2009

Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2007

National Resource Centers

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2003 - 2006

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2002 - 2003

National Resource Centers

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2000 - 2003