Meet Two Young Alums Doing Hands-On Relief Work in Ukraine
The best friends recently marked one year since they left their East Coast lives for a humanitarian aid mission to Eastern Europe.
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Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 14 faculty fellows
Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).
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New College Scholars research climate, health care, legal interpretation
'A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated.'
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HIST 4761 Albion: Post-Roman, Pre-Norman
HIST 4761 Albion: Post-Roman, Pre-Norman (also MEDVL 4761) (HB)(ALC-AS, HST-AS)(HPE, HEU)
Thursday: 12:20-2:00 plus Independent Research
Professor Oren Falk
The people who invaded the isle of Britain after the withdrawal of Roman government in the early fifth century, and who dominated it until the establishment of Norman rule in the late eleventh century, are responsible for some of the best-known and most enduring legacies of the Middle Ages: Beowulf and Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York, Alfred the Great and Æthelred the Unready. This course examines the Anglo-Saxons in their early-medieval context, focusing especially on the cooperation between history and its sister disciplines – archaeology, literary criticism, and others – that is so vital for shedding light on this distant, opaque era.
HIST 4346 Revolts Against the Roman Empire
HIST 4346 Revolts Against the Roman Empire (also CLASS 4346, JWST 4346, NES 4346) (GHB)(GLC-AS, HST-AS)(HPE, HEU)
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research
Professor Barry Strauss
This class will study an important example of resistance, that is, several armed revolts against Imperial Rome during the first two centuries of our era. Africa, Asia, and Europe all saw such rebellions. What caused them? Why did almost all of them fail? Were they popular movements or elite enterprises? What other forms of resistance to Rome existed besides armed revolts? To what extent were ethnicity, race, or religion factors in the revolts? The main case studies will be Arminius (Germany), Tacfarinas (North Africa), Boudicca (Britain), the Batavian Revolt (Netherlands), the Jewish Revolt (Judea), the Diaspora Revolt/Kitos War (Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, Judea, Mesopotamia), the Bar Kokhba Revolt (Judea). Readings in ancient literary sources as well as inscriptions, papyri, coins, and archaeological evidence.
HIST 4337 The 1980s: Polotics, Culture, and Memory in the United States
HIST 4337 The 1980s: Politics, Culture, and Memory in the United States (also AMST 4337)(ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HNA)
Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research
Professor Stephen Vider
This seminar will examine U.S. culture and politics in the 1980s as a pivotal decade in shaping our contemporary cultural, social, and political landscape. We will consider how U.S. culture and politics shifted with the "Reagan Revolution" and the end of the Cold War, and their connections to and ramifications for social activism, social welfare, media, foreign policy, and everyday life. At the same time, we will consider the methodological opportunities and challenges in researching, writing, reading, and presenting recent history. Students will complete a research paper, and work together to design and launch a digital exhibition on the 1980s. We will also explore how 1980s culture and politics was shaped by nostalgia for the 1950s, and how the 1980s and remembered and misremembered today. Topics include the rise of neoliberalism, privatization of civil and social services, the emergence of digital technologies, activism in response to HIV/AIDS, transnational feminisms, the consolidation of the Christian right, and the “Culture Wars.” Readings will include historical scholarship, as well as creative non-fiction, films, TV, and music from the 1980s.
HIST 4303 Nationalism & Decoloniation in Africa
HIST 4303 Nationalism & Decolonization in Africa (also ASRC 4303) (GB)(HST-AS)(HGS)
Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research
Professor Judith Byfield
This course examines the rise of nationalism as well as the process and aims of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on films and a variety of primary and secondary materials in order to illuminate the complex and contested arenas from which African nationalisms emerged. Throughout the course we will examine the ways in which race, ethnicity, gender, and class shaped the discourse of nationalism as well as nationalist strategies and agendas. We will also explore the ways in which the conflicts and tensions of the nationalist period continue to shape post-colonial state and society.
HIST 4265 Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World
HIST 4265 Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World (also AMST 4264, ASRC 4265, FGSS 4265) (HST-AS) (HNA)
Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research
Professor Ruth Lawlor
This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What would a queer history of American foreign relations look like? How has the legacy of sexual violence in plantation slavery underwritten the systems – such as private property, police power, white supremacy, and carcerality -- that structure modern American society and its international entanglements? How can a focus on gender help us to better understand the contemporary challenges of globalisation and the Anthropocene? Uncovering the pasts of the most marginalised historical actors – enslaved women, rape victims, trans and queer people – requires innovative methodologies and new relationships to the archive. In this seminar, then, we will also think about how we do gender history, and develop tools for reading, writing and researching that take us beyond the boundaries of the written record and into the realm of the speculative, the spectral, and the imaginary.
HIST 2970 Imperial Russia
HIST 2970 Imperial Russia (HB) (HST-AS, SCD-AS) (HPE, HEU)
Monday and Wednesday: 10:10-11:25
Professor Olga Litvak
This course surveys the history of Imperial Russia, from its ninth-century Kievan beginnings to its rapid disintegration under the pressure of the First World War. Lectures will draw special attention to recurrent acts of revolutionary transformation that punctuate Russia’s long tradition of “internal colonization.” We will look at the creation of Russian culture, politics and society between the ninth century and the nineteenth as an exercise in empire-building — a project that originated with the enterprising princes of medieval Moscow, collapsed with the end of the Riurikid dynasty at the turn of the seventeenth century, spectacularly revived in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg, under the standard-bearer or the reforming Romanovs, Peter the Great, and eventually taken up by some of the most articulate representatives of a late-imperial intelligentsia whose dreams of Russian greatness were even more extravagant than those of the tsar. Topics for discussion include: the Russian translation of Greek Christianity, Russia’s fraught relationship with Western Europe, the paradox of imperial modernization and the continual recourse, in Russian literary, musical, and visual cultures to an image of Russia as a frontier society without a state.
HIST 2722 LGBTQ History in the United States
HIST 2722 LGBTQ History in the United States (also AMST 2723, FGSS 2722, FGSS 2722) (HST-AS, SCD-AS) (HNA)
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:10-11:00 plus discussion
Professor Stephen Vider
This lecture traces the history of LGBTQ+ identities, relationships, and politics in the United States from the early 19th century to the present. We will consider, in particular, the shifting meanings of same-sex romantic and sexual relationships; the evolution of modern conceptions of sexual and gender identity as shaped by race and class; the emergence and policing of LGBTQ+ communities; and the history of LGBTQ+ activism and its intersections with broader movements for social and economic justice. Students will learn to read and analyze a range of historical scholarship, as well as primary texts in the history of gender and sexuality including memoirs and letters, periodicals, photographs, and political manifestos.
HIST 2680 Sex, Drugs, and Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s and 1970s America
HIST 2680 Sex, Drugs, and Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s and 1970s America (also AMST 2682) (HST-AS) (HNA)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:55-4:10 plus discussions devoted to the study of films
Professor Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Roots of the United States’ most vexing problems can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. This class explores the struggles to explain these turbulent decades in both popular memory and historical scholarship and the consequences of our interpretations for understanding today. Students will use movies and oral history to investigate the role of perspective, framing, and agency in historical analysis. We will examine the era’s struggles over issues such as racial hierarchy, gender roles, abortion, climate change, economic inequality, war, drugs, crime, and democracy.
HIST 2297 Public History Lab: The History of People Setting Themselves Free From US Slavery in the US
HIST 2297 Public History Lab: The History of People Setting Themselves Free From US Slavery in the US (also ASRC 2297, AMST 2297) (HST-AS)
Tuesday and Thursday: 1:25-2:15 plus Independent Research and Optional 1-credit Trip to Louisiana
Professor Edward Baptist
In this course, we will study the history of Black resistance to slavery in the US. Then we will help to build an exhibit about that topic at one of the foremost museum sites that interprets the history of US slavery. Students will learn about the history of slavery and emancipation, and how the attempt to memory-hole the history of Black resistance to slavery has shaped public memory and politics. We will also study how institutions like the Whitney Plantation Museum in Louisiana are working to produce a more accurate understanding of the American past. The course will run parallel with a sibling course being taught in the University of New Orleans’ MA program in Public History. In the second half of the course we will shift to working on the research, development, and production of the exhibit. The course will culminate (for those able) in a trip to Louisiana. There we will work on-site for a week with community partners, museum staff, and our colleagues in the UNO course. This will require students to make travel arrangements, and to pay a program fee that will cover lodging and local transportat
HIST 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan
HIST 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan (also AMST 2220, SHUM 2220) (HST-AS) (HNA)
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research
Professor Lawrence Glickman
This seminar will explore some of the major political and cultural trends in the United States, from the era of the Democratic New Dealer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through the era of the conservative Republican, Ronald Reagan? This seminar will explore through primary source research and secondary readings the key economic, political, and cultural characteristics and transformations of the period from 1930 though the turn of the century. The course will examine the rise, persistence, and breakdown of the so-called “New Deal Order” and the crucial political shifts that we call the “Reagan Revolution.” A key theme in this course will be the transformations and critiques of American liberalism and conservatism.
HIST 2207 Intersections: East Asia and Ithaca
HIST 2207 Intersections: East Asia and Ithaca (also ASIAN 2278) (HST-AS, SCD-AS)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research
Professor TJ Hinrichs
East Asian medicinal and martial arts, whether practiced in East Asia or in other parts of the world, have been important points of contact for people within and between often marginalized communities. In this course we will study the twentieth century development of East Asian combat and healing traditions, and the transport of those disciplines to the U.S. We will examine the personal, community, national, and global stakes of East Asian arts for those who invest in suppressing, teaching, and practicing them. We will consider how East Asian martial and medical practices relate, for example, to global and local histories of orientalism, colonialism, migration, and racism, and to historical post-colonial, anti-racist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements. Over the course of the semester, we will research martial and medical arts as they have been practiced in Ithaca, and place these local histories into their broader historical contexts.
HIST 2155 The Invention of Religion
HIST 2155 The Invention of Religion (also JWST 2155, RELST 2155) (GB) (ETM-AS, HST-AS) (HPE, HEU)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:30-4:10
Professor Olga Litvak
Religion is a term with a rich history but without a precise definition. Everyone can describe a religious idea or a religious experience even though there is no agreement about what it is that makes an idea or an experience religious. How did this state of things come about? What is it that makes religion both one thing and many things? Why do we apply this concept to Christianity, Islam and Judaism and to the deep feelings we associate with secular forms of devotion and enthusiasm — for food, for love, for family, for art, for sport? In this seminar, we will discover that religion is a distinctly modern concept, developed to address the psychological and social needs of Europeans increasingly adrift from the traditional communal practices and moral commitments of their parents and grandparents. Tracing the history of “religion” — rather than the history of religions — from the age of Immanuel Kant to the age of Emmanuel Levinas, we will examine paradoxical connection between the rise of religion and the decline of faith.
HIST 2055 Race and Slavery in the Early Atlantic World
HIST 2055 Race and Slavery in the Early Atlantic World (also AMST 2755, ASRC 2755, LATA 2055) (HST-AS) (HPE, HNA)
Tuesday and Thursday: 11:40-12:55 plus Independent Research
Professor Casey Schmitt
The legacies of slavery remain all too obvious in the modern Atlantic World. From demographic imbalances to pervasive social and economic inequality, much of the recent past has involved addressing that destructive early modern heritage. This course traces the roots of slavery and race in the Atlantic World from 1400 to 1800. Through lectures, readings, and class discussion, we will examine how politics, culture, gender, and the law intersected to shape the institution of slavery and the development of conceptions of race. As an Atlantic World course, we will take a comparative perspective and ask how different imperial regimes (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English) fostered different systems of race and slavery in the Americas. We will also ask how the law as a lived experience, gender norms, and imperial politics all worked to shape the production of racial hierarchies.
HIST 2052 Disassembling Silicon Valley: A People's History of High-Tech America across Race, Gender and Empire
HIST 2052 Disassembling Silicon Valley: A People's History of High-Tech America across Race, Gender and Empire (also AMST 2052, STS 2052) (HST-AS) (HNA)
Monday and Wednesday: 1:25-2:40 plus Independent Research
Dr. Charles Petersen
"Silicon Valley" may sound like another name for the future, but it also a place with a past. In this course, we will delve into the economic, environmental, political, social, and technological history of both the wider high-tech industry and the specific locale in the San Francisco suburbs. From the Spanish imperial conquest to the Space Race, from steam and radio to microchips and AI, across dimensions of race, gender, class, and immigration status, this course will strip Silicon Valley down to parts. Students will then use what they've learned to put the place back together again in their own way—not as the top-down elite-driven story that we know but as a "people's history" that can speak to all.
HIST 2043 Asian American Oral History
HIST 2043 Asian American Oral History (also AAS 2043) (HST-AS, SCD-AS)
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:10-11:25 plus Independent Research
Professor Derek Chang
This seminar will explore Asian American history through the methodology of oral history. Students will read Asian American historical scholarship that has relied on oral history methods, but they will also engage with theoretical and methodological work around the use of oral sources. Students will develop, research, and present oral history projects. Themes include power and knowledge production, the role of oral history in documenting the Asian American past, and local and family histories as avenues through which to explore oral history methods.
HIST 2010 Atlantic Travelers, 1492-1850
HIST 2010 Atlantic Travelers, 1492-1850 (HST-AS) (HPE, HGS)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research
Professor Ernesto Bassi
The objective of this seminar is to introduce students to the subjects of mobility and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Through close reading of primary and secondary sources and discussions, students will become familiar with the experiences of many types of travelers that between 1492 and the early nineteenth century traversed the Atlantic Ocean from the Old to the New World. The class will also draw students’ attention to the multiplicity of perspectives from which history can be narrated. The cast of travelers will include conquistadors, puritan settlers, pirates, slaves, indentured servants, scientists, loyalist refugees, black sailors, creole patriots, military adventurers, and women. The discussions will emphasize the different ways in which these travelers crossed the Atlantic, adapted to life in the Americas, and, in the process, contributed to the creation of the Atlantic World. Although no prior knowledge of Atlantic history is required, this seminar is ideal for students who have previously taken courses on colonial Latin America, early modern Europe, colonial America, African history, and other related surveys and seminars.
HIST 1985 From Subjects to Citizens: The Making and Unmaking of Early America
HIST 1985 From Subjects to Citizens: The Making and Unmaking of Early America (also AMST 1985, ASRC 1985) (HB)(HST-AS) (HPE, HNA)
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 plus discussion
Professor Casey Schmitt
On the eve of the American Revolution Britain administered 26 colonies—not just the 13 that would become the United States. British North America’s dramatic struggle for independence has led many history textbooks to read the revolution back into colonial history, focusing on those 13 North American colonies that would become the United States, often at the expense of global connections that defined the colonial and revolutionary periods. As this class will explore, key elements of early American history can only be understood through a broader perspective, from the economic growth of New England as a result of the African slave trade and exchange in the Caribbean, to the use of citizenship as a category of exclusion in response to the myriad inhabitants—European, Indigenous, and African—who neighbored or lived within the original 13 colonies. In this course, we will explore the history of early America from the 1490s through the 1800s from a global perspective. Voices usually peripheral to the narrative of American development, from enslaved African mariners to Spanish American nuns, will become central to processes of cultural encounter, labor exploitation, revolutionary upheavals, and state formation that shaped the making and unmaking early America.
HIST 1970 Pirates, Slaves, and Revolutionaries: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to Louverture
HIST 1970 Pirates, Slaves, and Revolutionaries: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to Louverture (also ASRC 1790, LATS 1970) (HST-AS) (HPE, HGS)
Monday and Wednesday: 10:10-11:25 plus Independent Research
Professor Ernesto Bassi
What is the Caribbean? How did its native inhabitants fared in the aftermath of the arrival of Europeans? How did the region shift from a Spanish Lake to a heavily contested geopolitical site where all European powers vied for political and commercial superiority? What were the main production systems of the region and how did they result in dramatic environmental change? How did the eighteenth-century revolutions transform the Caribbean? In this introductory survey to Caribbean history we will answer these and many other questions through the study of the political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the Caribbean from the arrival of Columbus to the era of the Haitian Revolution. We will follow indigenous people, Spanish conquistadors, English, Dutch, and French pirates and privateers, planters, and merchants, imperial officers, slaves, sailors, and revolutionaries as they adapted to the multiple transformations that shaped this region. Through lectures, discussions, and readings of primary and secondary sources we will navigate the Caribbean in a quest to understand the historical processes that gave shape to this tropical paradise.
HIST 1621 From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History I
HIST 1621 From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History I (also ASIAN 2261, CAPS 1621) (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HPE, HAN)
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-3:20 plus discussion
Professor Kristin Roebuck
Japan was once a disunited land of warriors, poets, peasants, and priestesses. By the twentieth century, Japan was a global center of finance, technology, geopolitics, and the arts. How did Japan evolve from samurai to superpower?
We investigate this transformation in Japanese and world history over a two-semester sequence. Students are free to enroll in either semester independently. (All are welcome, but none required, to enroll in both semesters.)
We begin in early Japan: the birthplace of the sun goddess Amaterasu, the imperial court devoted to her, and the samurai who rose to rule under her sway. Early Japan was also home to con-men and courtesans, mischievous gods and warring Buddhists, the world’s first (and female!) novelist, and a surprisingly cosmopolitan culture of artists and scientists, comedians and entrepreneurs, human traffickers and international travelers. Our first semester exploring this eclectic culture culminates in the early modern era (1600–1868), when under samurai rule, Japan developed many “modern” elements that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary changes and superpower status examined in the second semester.
We chart Japan’s development not only through big events but also everyday life, delving into gender and sexuality, family and labor, arts and entertainment, and more.
HIST 1576 War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror
HIST 1576 War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror (also AMST 1576) (HST-AS) (HNA)
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:10-11:25 plus discussion
Professor Ruth Lawlor
Is war a “way of life” for Americans, as some historians have suggested? In recent years, many Americans have come to think about war as something that happens “over there”, away from our own shores, but war – the act of fighting itself, as well as the political, economic and social demands of mobilisation, and the foreign and domestic consequences of military violence – has shaped the United States in countless ways. This course explores both the shadow of war – the seen and unseen effects it has on people and societies – and the substance – the wars themselves – to explore America’s relationships with the rest of the world, from the revolutionary period to the present day. At the same time, we we’ll also examine non-military and quasi-military encounters between Americans and peoples abroad, including tourism, romantic entanglements, business relationships, and religious proselytising, asking “what is war?”, and even whether the United States has ever been at peace. Through this multi-layered focus we will discover some of the many ways in which Americans have thought about, engaged with, impacted, and been impacted by, the world beyond the country’s borders, and the extent to which war and violence have played a prominent role in those interactions.
History Department Begins Three Year Active Learning Initiative
Active learning methods encourage students to engage in their learning by thinking, discussing, investigating, and creating in their courses.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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History Department Begins Three Year Active Learning Initiative
Thanks to a grant from the university’s Active Learning Initiative (ALI), the Department of History will transform multiple courses with active learning innovation. ALI will help show students the beauty and fun of historical thinking in introductory courses.
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After one year of war, how to break the stalemate in Ukraine?
February 24 will mark one year since Russian tanks rolled over the border into Ukraine; two Cornell historians provide insight.
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Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine
In a New York Times guest essay, Nicholas Mulder considers why the Russian economy has proven relatively resilient under sanctions.
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In a Posthumous Memoir, Famed Prof Recalls a Turbulent Childhood
Long before Isaac Kramnick joined the Cornell faculty, he was a foster child from a family grappling with poverty and mental illness.
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Lessons learned from pandemic successes and failures: a conversation Feb. 20
What have we learned about the successes and failures of the policy responses to Covid‑19?
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When there’s an “I” in history
Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books, framing their accounts of history as first-person investigations and revealing emotional ties to their subjects.
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A&S secures gifts, embarks on McGraw Hall renovation
The refurbishment and preservation of McGraw has become a top priority for the College of Arts & Sciences and the university.
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A&S welcomes 10 new Klarman Fellows to expanded program
The fourth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program’s launch in 2019, includes scholars investigating quantum phases of two-dimensional materials, mechanisms of social mobility, housing politics of metro areas, and gaps between neuro cognition and artificial intelligence, among other critical topics.
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Germany weighing decision to deliver modern battlefield tanks to Ukraine
Giving the Leopard 2 to Ukraine would give them a substantial quality advantage over the Russian army, says history professor David Silbey.
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Historian wins NEH grant for work on British-India empire building
Historian Robert Travers is taking a deeper look at the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings.
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Traverso wins Italian literature award for nonfiction
“Rivoluzione 1789-1989” has also been published in English, French and Spanish, with translations to follow in German, Portuguese, Greek, Korean and other languages.
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Mellon grants $1M to deepen and improve Freedom on the Move
Cornell is partnering with multiple institutions to foster a research community around a growing collection of “runaway slave” advertisements published in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Freedom on the Move project inspires music performances
A Cornell-based database of “runaway ads” placed by enslavers in 18th- and 19th-century U.S. newspapers was the starting point for a new song cycle, “Songs in Flight,” that will premiere Jan. 12 in New York City.
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Paul Hyams, expert on medieval law, dies at 82
Colleagues and former students remember Hyams as an innovative and multidisciplinary scholar who reached from history into literature, law, medieval studies and beyond through a pedagogical approach that combined intellectual rigor with camaraderie.
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Twenty Affinito-Stewart research grants awarded for the 2022-2023 academic year
The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) awarded Affinito-Stewart research grants totaling $195,166 to 20 Cornell faculty members.
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‘Losing Istanbul’: Personal histories illustrate an empire’s end
Putting biographical details in conversation with global events, Mostafa Minawi gives the reader a street-level understanding of what it was like to live through the final decades of the ailing Ottoman Empire.
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Global Public Voices fellows to speak out on democratic threats
This year, 27 fellows, including three from Arts & Sciences, will engage with national and international news media to make their voices heard on several issues.
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Grants help students with conferences, job-hunting expenses
Professional Development Grants are available thanks to generous alumni donations.
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Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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Professor’s book wins American Historical Association prize
Judith Byfield's book "The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria" was awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize.
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Noted archaeologist to speak on new discoveries in Israel in Cornell lecture
Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.
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‘Words as battle axes’: A&S professors appear in Frederick Douglass film
Derrick Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching help tell the story of the man born into slavery who became an advocate for African American freedom.
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Klarman fellow’s research prompts Stanford to investigate its practices
An archive discovery by Cornell historian Charles Petersen reported in an August 2021 newsletter prompted Stanford University to establish a task force to investigate its admissions practices for Jewish students in the 1950s.
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From fabric arts to human waste: Student Biennial projects transcend
More than a dozen students are taking part in the Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell.
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Global Cornell awards support new international courses
Five International Cornell Curriculum grants totaling $114,000 will support faculty developing courses that feature international experiences for students.
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