Scholars@Duke
Robin Kirk

Robin Kirk

Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
rights@duke.edu
Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse B183, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors

Indie Award for Young Adult fiction

National BiblioLabs · 2022 More about this award

Bronze Award for Young Adult Fiction

Other Foreward · 2018 More about this award

David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Funds

University Duke · January 2013

Essayist, Best American Travel Writing for 2012

National Mariner Books · October 2012

Career Development Grant 2012

National American Association of University Women · January 2012

Co-Director, BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab

Other Franklin Humanities Institute · July 2011

Winner, 2010 Independent Poetry contest

State The Independent Weekly (North Carolina) · January 2010

In the News

Published May 23, 2024
Reuben-Cooke Fellows’ Projects Tell Stories of Social Justice
Published October 4, 2023
Banned Books Week: A Discussion About Censorship
Published May 23, 2023
It All Connects to Climate
Published September 8, 2022
Abortion Debate Illustrates How Human Rights Are Not Absolute, But Evolving, Professor Says
Published June 14, 2022
The People Behind the Rights We Cherish
Published April 8, 2021
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Six Duke Faculty Poets
Published January 20, 2021
10 Works of Fiction from Duke Authors
Published April 9, 2019
Lessons from Game of Thrones
Published January 23, 2019
From Human Rights to Sci-Fi
Published November 27, 2017
Duke Faculty Assist in Public Hearings on North Carolina Connection to Torture Flights
Published October 2, 2016
Robin Kirk comments: Alvaro Uribe emerges as key player in FARC peace deal
Published June 13, 2016
Robin Kirk: Green Party peddling dangerous delusions
Published April 14, 2016
Duke, The New School and Others Examine Mass Incarceration in Exhibit
Published April 13, 2016
Robin Kirk: Give me a bathroom break
Published April 1, 2016
Students Gather to Celebrate Duke's new Human Rights Ceritificate
Published March 2, 2016
Robin Kirk: Sound the alarm
Published February 8, 2016
Robin Kirk: In Orwellian move, N.C. State Archives blocks access to death penalty photo
Published November 30, 2015
Faculty Approve Human Rights Certificate for Undergraduate Education
Published November 20, 2015
Robin Kirk: Stand for hope in troubling times
Published November 19, 2015
Barring Syrian Refugees Gives ISIS What It Seeks
Published November 19, 2015
David Schanzer, Robin Kirk: Barring Syrian refugees from N.C. gives ISIS exactly what it seeks
Published November 18, 2015
Send Ground Troops, Reject Syrian Refugees?
Published November 17, 2015
Robin Kirk criticizes governors’ rejection of Syrian refugees in light of the Paris attacks
Published October 21, 2015
Robin Kirk: Flaming pumpkin against the darkness
Published October 1, 2015
Gentrification and Human Rights in Durham
Published September 10, 2015
Duke, UNC Scholars to Hold Public Forum on Refugee Crisis Sept. 14
Published August 10, 2015
Scream in my Coffee
Published July 15, 2015
Robin Kirk: Would the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' we know be published today?
Published July 15, 2015
Would 'Mockingbird' be Published Today?
Published June 25, 2015
A Humanitarian Crisis the U.S. Can't Ignore
Published June 2, 2015
Commentary: Duke History 101
Published December 16, 2014
Is Pop Culture Making Us 'Meh' About Torture?