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Philip J. Stern

Professor of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
History Dept, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


NEH/Library Company Fellow

Other Unknown · December 2013

New Directions Fellowship

National Mellon Foundation · December 2013

New Directions Fellowship

National Andrew W. Mellon Foundation · 2013

JB Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography

Other Unknown · December 2012

Elected Fellow

International Royal Historical Society · November 2011

Co-Director, BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab

Other Unknown · May 2011

Morris D. Forkosch Prize for Best Book in British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth History since 1485

National American Historical Association · 2011

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

National American Historical Association · 2011

Franklin Humanities Institute/Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop

Other Franklin Humanities Institute · October 2009

In the News


Published February 3, 2025
Celebrating Duke’s New Full Professors
Published June 23, 2023
The Corporations That Made the British Empire
Published June 22, 2023
Hot Off the Press: Summer Reading From Duke Authors
Published February 4, 2020
Building Sandcastles with History: Recreating the Vision of Pre-Modern Mapmakers
Published June 16, 2016
Philip Stern: The first corporations -- way back -- had social purpose
Published May 1, 2015
Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished Professors
Published February 18, 2014
Historian Philip Stern Honored for Study of British Empire