Centers & Initiatives

Our faculty lead or collaborate with a wide variety of on-campus interdisciplinary research centers that are exploring vital policy questions and bringing provocative and timely speakers to campus. Through these research hubs, students can work with faculty on ground-breaking research, and engage with leaders in many fields.

Center for Child and Family Policy

Jennifer Lansford, Director

Research Professor

E-mail Jennifer Lansford

CCFP

Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society

Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society

Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism

Kristin Goss, Director

Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy

E-mail Kristin Goss

Philanthropy and Voluntarism

Counterterrorism and Public Policy Fellows Program

Tim Nichols, Executive Director

Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy

E-mail Tim Nichols

Fellows Program

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy

Philip M. Napoli, Director

James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy

E-mail Phil Napoli

DeWitt Wallace

Duke Center for International Development

Edmund (Eddy) Malesky, Director

Professor of Political Science

E-mail Eddy Maleski

DCID

Duke in DC – Policy, Leadership & Innovation

Kristin Goss, Director

Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy

E-mail Kristin Goss

Duke in DC

Duke Program in American Grand Strategy

Peter Feaver, Founding Director

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

E-mail Peter Feaver

AGS

Hart Leadership Program

Andrew Nurkin, Director

Hart Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy

E-mail Andrew Nurkin

Hart Leadership

POLIS: Center for Politics

For overall questions about Polis / institutional priorities, please reach out to Duke Sanford's interim Dean Manoj Mohanan.
If you have questions about upcoming Polis events, please contact Meg Bittle, Assistant Director of Polis.

E-mail Meg Bittle

Polis

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions

Heyman Center

Triangle Institute for Security Studies

Kyle Beardsley, Director

Professor of Political Science

E-mail Kyle Beardsley

TISS

World Food Policy Center

Norbert Wilson, Director

Professor of Public Policy

Professor of Food, Economics and Community (Divinity)

E-mail Norbert Wilson

World Food Policy

SAMPLE INITIATIVE

DURHAM CONNECTS

The Duke Center for Child & Family Policy launched a nurse home visiting program as Durham Connects in 2008 as part of research into ways to prevent child maltreatment. The program, Family Connects International, is now being implemented across the country. Evidence from an ongoing randomized controlled trial shows that the model delivers a significant reduction in emergency room visits and an estimated 3-to-1 return on investment.