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This year, Project Vox is expanding its educational outreach, working to bring marginalized figures from the history of philosophy beyond college campuses and into high school classrooms. As part of that effort, Project Vox invited eight teachers from local middle and high schools to Bostock Library on Duke’s West Campus for its first-ever Teacher Development […]
Above: Who Is Anton Wilhelm Amo? Created by Salina Momade and photographed by Pablo Hassmann in collaboration with Isaiah Lopaz, hn.lyonga, Eduardo Duco, Ronnie Vitalia Adam, Pedro Osório Mondlane, Meing Santo Deanc, Gowinda Ama Armoo, Diaga Müller, Sadia Marie Ouro-Gbele, Emmanuél Okafor, Inocêncio Virgilio Uamusse, Amaralina Schmidt, Robin von Elsner, Marinara Taveira, Jennifer Tâmara Akouvi Lotsi, […]
This post is part of our Behind the Scenes and Project Vox Classroom blog series. For many years, Project Vox has offered teaching resources focused on undergraduate classrooms. Beginning this year, we’re expanding that work, with the aim of reaching high school classrooms, too. Project Vox’s Education & Outreach team has begun developing lesson plans […]
Liz Milewicz, Will Shaw, and Cheryl Thomas were core members of the Project Vox team whose positions were eliminated as part of Duke’s strategic realignment in summer 2025. In an effort to celebrate their tremendous contributions to philosophy, digital humanities, and the team, the Project Vox alums submitted their favorite memories of the three founding […]
Mary Purcell and Max Ma’s post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. After completing the Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) entry in 2024, the Project Vox team discussed our plan for the upcoming year. It was going to be a different kind of year because we were preparing for our 10-year symposium. This […]
On February 28 and March 1, 2025, Project Vox celebrated its 10th anniversary as a website and a global initiative by hosting a Symposium at Duke University Libraries. Past team members joined scholars, students, staff, and the current team to reflect on what’s changed since we started this project, what practices and values helped us […]
This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Two years ago, the Project Vox team began holding regular edit-a-thons to improve the Wikipedia entries for our philosophers. One purpose of the edit-a-thons was to remove sexist language that misrepresents the lives and contributions of these historical figures. For example, the lead paragraph […]
This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Ten years ago, a group of scholars met at the University of Pennsylvania to plan future collaborations. The group comprised colleagues from several universities around the world, including Lisa Shapiro and Marguerite Deslauriers from Canada, Karen Detlefsen and Marcy Lascano from the US, and […]
This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. One of the most beautiful aspects of Project Vox is the community it has generated, made up not only of current students, faculty, staff, and collaborators but also of alums! It was my privilege to join Project Vox first as a volunteer in 2020 […]
This Behind the Scenes post and photos were provided by Project Vox co-director Liz Milewicz. This spring, during a pause in research while awaiting reviewer feedback on their next entry, the Project Vox Team visited the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, to engage with a range of items held by its impressive […]
In October 2023, three former team members of Project Vox—Meredith Graham, Dana Hogan, and Yasemin Altun—had the privilege of presenting a paper at the conference Women in Art and Music, ca. 1500-1800. Jointly hosted by the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and The Juilliard School (New York), this symposium convened an international group of […]
In this Project Vox Classroom post, Michael Vazquez discusses the way he pairs Astell and various philosophers of education, ethics, and race for his students. Astell’s presence in the classroom, Vazquez says, prompts students to reflect on their own assumptions about the role and future of education. “If all Men are born free, how is […]
The following “Behind the Scenes” post was written by Duke undergraduate and Project Vox team member Frank Mercer IV. This summer I traveled to England and France to explore the lived experiences of the philosophical figures I have researched on the Project Vox team, to place philosophical ideas in the context from which they emerged. […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I have been personally engaged with questions about God’s existence, the relationship between science and faith, and other concerns quite typical of contemporary philosophy of religion as far back as high school. But those questions sent me down a long philosophical rabbit hole that has led […]
On October 5, former team member Emilie Menzel will talk about her work with Project Vox as part of a panel of Duke researchers engaged in open scholarship. (If you’re in the area and you’d like to attend this in-person talk, more information and a registration link can be found at https://duke.libcal.com/event/11159787.) Emilie joined our […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. This month we are pleased to share a post from a dancer incorporating philosophy into her ballet career. A year ago, at sixteen, I made the most significant decision of my relatively young life. Perhaps “decision” is a misnomer, or at least bears a different meaning […]
What happens when artificial intelligence hallucinates history for which there is very little representation? And might we imagine it differently? As Project Vox was gearing up to publish the entry on Nísia Floresta this spring, we struggled to find high-resolution images of the nineteenth-century Brazilian philosopher and advocate for indigenous and women’s rights, abolition, and […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. My writing on Lydia Maria Child was inspired by the United States’ 2016 election. I had been writing on classical German philosophy, Hegel especially, for most of my career. But now, in the face of America’s new reality, I resolved to turn to my own country, and […]
Each year the Project Vox team prepares an annual report for our advisory board and key stakeholders at Duke University. In our efforts to share the processes of our work, we want to share sections of our report with our audience. We are excited to share the the tremendous efforts made by the student team […]
“The more ignorant a people are, the easier it is for an absolute government to exercise its unlimited power over them. It is based on this principle, so contrary to the progressive march of civilization, that most men oppose women’s access to the means of cultivating their spirits. However, this is a mistake that has […]
