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Gunther W. Peck

Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
308 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


Warren Fellowship

International Charles Warren Center, Harvard University · 2010 A year long writing fellowship from the Warren Center on the theme of "Sovereignty, Migration, and Empire."

Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions

National National Endowment for the Humanities · 2002

RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE

National Organization of American Historians · 2001

Fellow

National National Humanities Center · 2001

In the News


Published January 22, 2025
From Philosophy to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Duke Authors Cover Big Topics
Published May 7, 2024
How Can We Ensure Provisional Ballots Count?
Published October 10, 2023
How a ‘Failsafe’ Protection for Voting Fails Students
Published November 1, 2022
The North Carolina Court Case That Could Change Voting Across the Nation
Published October 29, 2020
Elections in a Pandemic
Published October 26, 2020
Voter Intimidation Is Real. Here's What You Can Do About It
Published November 7, 2019
Two New Endowed Professorships to Help Hart Program Develop Students for Careers in Public Life
Published October 8, 2019
How Immigration Detention Became a Government Headache
Published November 8, 2018
Election 2018: The Surprise Was There Were Few Surprises
Published November 1, 2018
Making Voting Trendy with Parkland Student Leader
Published October 4, 2018
The Torch Passes at the Hart Leadership Program
Published February 3, 2017
Gunther Peck: How Clinton and the Democrats Lost North Carolina
Published June 27, 2016
Duke professor: Immigration reform more symbolic than factual
Published June 15, 2016
Gunther Peck comments: In Greensboro, Trump takes on Obama, Clinton, immigrants
Published June 7, 2016
Gunther Peck: The politics of bigotry -- Donald Trump and the rise of white racial victimhood
Published April 1, 2016
C-SPAN Gets History Lesson In U.S. Refugee Policy
Published March 17, 2016
Did Casting a Ballot Just Get Harder?
Published March 15, 2016
Glad You Asked: Casting a Ballot Just Got Harder
Published March 10, 2016
Gunther Peck on Will New Voting Restrictions Curb Voter Participation?
Published November 25, 2015
Accepting Syrian Refugees
Published October 28, 2015
Duke in Pictures: Teach-in Covers Challenges to Student Voting in 2016
Published September 23, 2015
‘Hyphenated American’ Exhibit and Event at Duke Oct. 1
Published November 13, 2014
News Tip: Experts Can Comment on Obama's Immigration Plan
Published July 8, 2014
Tiffany Lieu: Drawn by the Connections of History
Published August 12, 2013
Duke, UNC students speak out against N.C. voting legislation