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Tracie Canada

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708
1316 Campus Drive, Box 90677, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


CAREER: The Science of Risk Assessment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2030

Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant: Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wenner-Gren Foundation · 2025 - 2025

Black in Blue: An Oral History

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation · 2023 - 2025

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Symposium Grant · 2024 Awarded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Intellectual Community Planning Grant · 2023 Awarded by: Duke Interdisciplinary Studies
Explore Seed Grant · 2023 Awarded by: Duke Office for Research & Innovation
‘Achieving Racial Equality in College Sports’ Challenge Grant · 2022 - 2024 Awarded by: Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Graduate Student Research Grant · 2017 Awarded by: National Collegiate Athletic Association
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant · 2017 Awarded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Gary Sailes Graduate Diversity Scholarship Award · 2016 Awarded by: The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Graduate Research Fellowship Award · 2015 - 2020 Awarded by: National Science Foundation
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship · 2011 - 2013 Awarded by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation