Story+ is a six-week summer research experience for undergraduate and graduate students interested in bringing academic research to life through dynamic storytelling. Undergraduates work in small teams with graduate student mentors, in a collaborative and creative research environment. Each project has a sponsor. Students learn to conduct qualitative, humanities-based research (e.g., archival research, narrative analysis, visual analysis, ethnography) and to communicate their research through effective storytelling techniques. Final projects may take the form of writing, websites, exhibits, short films or other genres, depending on the project’s goals.

2019 Projects

• #MyVoiceMyBody: Minoritized Bodies in the Pulpit at Duke Chapel

• 23 and We: Stories of Race in Genetic Ancestry Testing Advertisements

• Beyond Despair: Narrating the Environment through the Humanities

• Consuming Women, Liberating Women: Women and Advertising in the Mid 20th Century

• Photographic Life of Harriet: Tubman’s Life in Pictures

• Pirating Texts: From Robinson Crusoe to Cast Away, Tracking the Myth of Crusoe From Slave Trade Propaganda to Children’s Animation

• Stained University: From Duke's Entanglement with the Tobacco Industry to a Smoke-Free Campus

• Teaching Duke History

• The Other Side of Hungry River: Mental Illness Mapped through Songs

• “After 33 y'rs of hackling at it”: The Echoes of Walt Whitman’s Entrepreneurial Publishing in Digital Content Creation