Committed to supporting research centers and organizations that further the conversation on advancing social equity, the Cook Center features outside opportunities that are in alignment with our mission and research themes.
By disseminating information on programming, lectures, conferences, job postings, and various external prospects, the Cook Center seeks to connect our network of scholars, supporters, and students with valuable resources and upcoming opportunities.
To submit opportunities for posting consideration on our website, calendar, or social media accounts, please email socialequity@duke.edu.
Internships and Student Opportunities
Summer Remote Research Assistantship
This is an opportunity to work on a team of academic and community-based researchers. The team is led by Helen Ho (CAA) and Ron Hayduk (SFSU). The research assistants would also work closely with Megan Dias (Cornell), Janelle Wong (UMD) and Kathleen Coll (USFCA). This opportunity is ideal for a graduate student seeking experience with qualitative and policy-relevant research.
Research assistants will be responsible for coding and analyzing interviews and focus groups with immigrant participants from a diverse range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The research assistants will also contribute to the creation of a qualitative codebook and write summaries of the analysis.
CEF Durham Summer Internship
The Community Empowerment Fund (CEF) is an organization working to combat the racial wealth gap by equipping Members of our community with the tools they may need to achieve financial independence. At the heart of our work is a commitment to supporting Members long-term in their goals.
As an intern in the Durham office, you will be working closely with Members to accomplish their goals through meetings and supporting projects relating to community resources, advocacy efforts, and recruitment of future volunteers and interns!
Our internship program application will be due on March 10th at 11:59pm. It will run from June 2nd to August 7th, with trainings beginning on May 27th.
If you have any questions, please email the Advocate Program Coordinator at shuhudm@communityempowermentfund.org.
Visit our website: Home - CEF: Community Empowerment Fund
Have an internship or student opportunity you'd like to share? Email us at socialequity@duke.edu.
Program and Conference Opportunities
In the Dissolution: Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Summer Workshop
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The workshop seeks to address climate change and its accompanying disasters as co-constitutive outcomes of the ongoing project of racial capital and toxic modernity. Climate change is inextricably bound to material and epistemological violences produced by Western colonial powersâ global conquest, African enslavement, and Indigenous dispossession. Land, territories, communities, and the human and more-than-human ecologies have been casualties of this enterprise and need therefore to be studied in their varied articulations, planetary relationalities, and âdeep implicancyâ (Ferreira da Silva).
The application deadline has been extended to March 9, 2025. Brown and Duke graduate students should submit a letter of interest (maximum 3 pages) and an abbreviated CV of two pages maximum. Each student must submit an individual application.
Please include the following information in the letter of interest:
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A statement of purpose including an outline of how your research engages with and contributes to the workshopâs themes of inquiry.
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A brief pedagogical outline describing how you might organize a single seminar session (i.e., concepts, key words, format/activity, a specific media object, etc.).
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A brief abstract of a relevant project that you would present during the workshop for feedback and development. Creative projects are welcome in this space.
Find more information here: In the Dissolution: Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Summer Workshop | Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown | Brown University
Equity in Research Learning Collaborative March Meeting
we are 2025 Educator Summer Institute
Attendees will walk away with a plan to address a systemic racial equity issue within their own school, district, or organization.  Participating K-12 teachers will earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs). It is strongly recommended that teams of at least three from each school/organization attend, but this is not a requirement.
Registration is live for our 2025 Educator Summer Institute! Participants will build a historical understanding of racial constructs, develop strategies and techniques which extend anti-racist practices and promote civic engagement and co-conspiratorship with people of color on issues of racial justice. Registration deadline is June 6th!
Have a conference or program you'd like to share? Email us at socialequity@duke.edu.
