Two Sanford Faculty Named Distinguished Professors

Sanford faculty members Nicholas Carnes and Kristin Goss have been named Duke distinguished professors, effective July 1.

Carnes will be the Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. In 2021, he received the Alan T. Waterman Award from National Science Foundation, the U.S. government’s highest honor for an early career scientist or engineer.

Carnes joined the Duke faculty in 2011. As professor of public policy and political science, Carnes’s groundbreaking research