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Garcia, Burrow receive inaugural faculty diversity award
Maria Cristina Garcia, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Anthony Burrow, associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, have won the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity.
Book retrieval effort gives grad student welcome relief
You’ve been working on your dissertation for what seems like forever, doing research abroad when you’re not teaching or holed up in the library, and making great progress – until one day, the library is closed indefinitely with your books still inside.
Center for Social Sciences names 2020-21 faculty fellows
Climate change, school segregation and online interaction are among the topics to be investigated by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’ newest group of faculty fellows.
The Department of History Graduate Program leads students to many opportunities.
In February 2019, the Department wrote graduate student, Benedetta Luciana Sara Carnaghi, who was conducting archival research in Vienna, and asked her some questions about her graduate student experience at Cornell. Her full responses are below. They are set up in a Question and Answer style so that readers may look for items of interest to them.
For those interested in graduate work in history, Benedetta’ s enthusiasm for both Cornell History and the field shine through each of her responses. Benedetta provides insight into her process of selecting a graduate program and Ph.D. focus with rich and pertinent detail.
This thoughtful Question and Answer piece will be helpful to students and individuals digging deep into history. Benedetta's enthusiasm for life will not be lost on the reader as she lives an exhilarating journey as a twenty-first-century female historian in the making.
Read the Q and A with Benedetta.