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Charisma Nelson (Class of 2009), presenting her research at the Mellon-funded
Moore Undergraduate Research Program (MURAP) in July 2007
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current Research Topics for Duke MMUF Fellows:
- The Heart of our Difference: Assessing Racial Tension in Mecklenburg County
- Lord Nelson: A Study of Sex, Politics, and Memory
- The Intersection of Race and Class: The New Black Middle Class and the Black Utility Heuristic
- A Desperation to Be Understood: Aboriginal Art
- Black, Middle Class and Invisible: The Colored American Magazine and the Construction of the Black Cosmopolitan
- The Black Christ: A Better Understanding in Light of Orthodoxy
- Methyl Mercury Teratogenicity in Fundulus heteroclitus populations genetically adapted to PAH-resistance
- Critiquing Representation: Mass Media Portrayals of Minorities
- Bowed and Near Broken: The (Mis)Representation of the Sexualized Black Female Body and the AIDS Epidemic