Ariel Dorfman
Artist-in-residence/Writer
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American poet, novelist, playwright and human-rights activist who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. He has received numerous international awards, including the Sudamericana Award for novel, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play (“Death and the Maiden,” which has been made into a feature film by Roman Polanski), and two awards from the Kennedy Center. His books, written both in Spanish and English, have been translated into more than 40 languages and his plays have been staged in over 100 countries. His memoir Heading South, Looking North was the basis for an award-winning documentary film, A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, directed by Peter Raymont. He is also a regular contributor to the major newspapers of the world. www.adorfman.duke.edu/
Wendy Ewald
Artist-in-residence/Photographer
Photographer Wendy Ewald’s work with children and youth continually challenges and confounds audiences and critics alike. Audiences are confronted with issues of class, race, war, cultural differences through the collaborating and confronting eyes of Ewald and the children. Critics are baffled in deciding how to deal with these works: are they simply children’s photography, and thus can be dismissed from the world of serious art? Or are they highly complex and beautiful works that force critics to reflect on their assumptions of what makes great artists and works?
Since 1998, Wendy Ewald is artist-in-residence with the Duke University Center for International Studies. She also directs the Literacy Through Photography International program. She has had many additional residencies at museums, schools and colleges throughout the U.S. and the world.
Patrick D. Duddy
Visiting Senior Lecturer in International Studies
Ambassador Duddy is one of the Department of State’s most senior Latin American specialists with exceptionally broad experience in trade, energy, public affairs and crisis management. He most-recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela where he oversaw one of the most complex political, economic and public diplomacy portfolios in the Western Hemisphere. He was the chief architect of the U.S. strategy to promote American interests in Venezuela and acted to steward of one of the United States’ most important energy relationships. He also served as the lead spokesman in a nationwide public diplomacy effort to preserve strong people to people ties between the two countries while directing a staff of nearly four hundred professionals representing ten U.S. government agencies.
William E. Lucas
U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence
Mr. Lucas is a member of the U.S. Department of State’s senior foreign service, with overseas assignments in Europe, Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. Most recently, Bill served in Kabul where he established and led a 25-person civilian-military team dedicated to strengthening rule of law and the justice system in Afghanistan. Prior to that, he served intermittently as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) in the European affairs bureau and Charge d’Affaires (Acting) at Embassy Prague. At that time, he also led for three years the State Department’s office for European Union affairs, where he had earlier served as deputy director. His U.S.-EU experience also includes a tour of duty as political officer in the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels.
