011 Allen Bldg, Box 90050, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90050, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-6066
Email: heather.settle@duke.edu
Academic Dean for first-generation/low-income (FGLI) students. Director of Program II, Trinity Curriculum Committee, Paletz Awards for Innovative Course Enhancements Committee.
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
I grew up in Moore, Oklahoma, and attended Swarthmore as the first person in my family to earn a college degree. I earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke after conducting extended field research in Havana, Cuba, on the lived experience of “permanent crisis” in the early- to mid-2000s. I taught Latin American studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist studies, and Anthropology courses at Miami of Ohio before returning to Duke as a visiting professor in 2008. In 2011, I co-founded the Director of Academic Engagement (DAE) program at Duke, first specializing in Global & Civic Engagement and then in Social Sciences. I consider the university a rich field site for thinking about inequality, growth, and the politics of care. I am particularly interested in research on student well-being as it relates to academic success, and on first-generation/low-income student experiences at elite universities.