Margaret Reif, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is visiting assistant professor of German at Haverford College.  Jeffrey Hertel, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is assistant professor of German at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan.  April Henry, Ph.D. (UNC-CH, 2008), lecturer in German at Duke University, … Read more

Former UNC-CH senior lecturer in German, Dr. Tin Wegel, is serving as the resident director for Duke in Berlin for 2021–22.

The Department of German Studies at Duke announced that Stephen Zaksewicz has won the 2021 Bessent Teaching Award and Amy Jones has won the 2021 Borchardt Teaching Award. Both awards recognize demonstrated excellence in teaching.  In 2020, because of circumstances … Read more

Carolina-Duke graduate student Natasza Gawlik is the winner of the 2021 Stambaugh-Borchardt Prize for best Writing Proficiency Review essay, “Mariella Mehr’s steinzeit: Unturning the stone on Swiss and Yenish history” (read more).

In May 2021 the Diversity Awards Committee and the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion announced the year’s Diversity Award winners.  Among the recipients is Prof. Priscilla Layne (read more and view her acceptance speech here). Prof. Layne is also … Read more

The virtual Delta Phi Alpha induction ceremony and end-of-semester celebration took place on April 21, 2021. This annual event, which honors undergraduate German majors, featured two speakers, Dr. Christoph Rückel from the internship program German American Exchange and Prof. Henrike … Read more