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Karin Shapiro

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
243D Friedl Building, Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm  

Awards & Honors


Judith Deckers Teaching Prize

University Office of the Provost, Duke University · 2025

Howard D. Johnson Teaching Award

University Committee on Undergraduate Teaching and the A&S Council, Duke University · 2024

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (ADUTA)

Other Duke University · 2018

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow,

National Harvard University (declined) · 2008

Social Science Research Institute Faculty Fellow

University Duke University · 2007 "Understanding the Transformed and Transforming South: Perspectives on Race, Economics, Politics and Public Policy."

John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Fellow

University Duke University · 2005

Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Research in the United States

Other South African Human Sciences Research Council · 1994

Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fund Fellowship

Other Oppenheimer Memorial Trust · 1987

Fulbright Fellowship 1985-1989

International Institute for International Education · August 1985 Fellowship for graduate study at Yale University. Granted for 4 years.

Alexander Bouchet Prize in African-American Graduate Studies

University Yale University · 1983

In the News


Published January 31, 2025
Three Undergraduate Faculty Win Inaugural Judith Deckers Teaching Award
Published October 1, 2024
Judith Deckers Prize Finalists Announced
Published September 27, 2024
Four Trinity Faculty Members Receive Teaching Awards
Published October 17, 2023
Helping Social Scientists Grow an Idea into a Research Project
Published September 25, 2018
Founders' Day Ceremony to Honor Paul Quinn President Michael Sorrell
Published December 11, 2013
Duke holds interfaith vigil for Nelson Mandela