Guyana and a global struggle for Black solidarity
Historian Russell Rickford tells how a former British colony in South America shaped and inspired a global political and intellectual movement.
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Cornell historians, undergraduates, and graduates research the World. Our expertise stretches across the globe and through the centuries, illuminating the present.
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Faculty Research
Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle: New Book by Professor Oren Falk
Oren Falk's book and research considers the medieval Icelandic sagas as case studies in the violence general to the human experience, arguing that violence, “both perennial and contemporary,” serves as a technique for dealing with uncertainty....
In this book, the Icelandic case studies elaborated reveal the historically specific ways in which such general truisms get acted out in a particular culture. Successive chapters move from the individual level of struggling to survive and assert dominance in a feud, through the sociological level of creating and upholding institutions that will serve elites’ agendas, to the existential level of coming to grips with the harsh environment Icelanders faced, a sputtering volcanic outcrop stuck in the middle of a storm-tossed North Atlantic.
Graduate Student Research
History & Science Research Synergize for Greater Understanding
The research of Kevin Bloomfield, a Ph.D. candidate in history, and colleagues, was recently honored with a publication in Climatic Change.
The paper, Beyond One-Way Determinism: San Frediano's Miracle and Climate Change in Central and Southern Italy in Late Antiquity, examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium by studying scientific data and historical records.
Undergraduate Research
Ezra's Archives is a publication put forth annually by the Cornell Historical Society. The Cornell Historical Society (CHS) is an undergraduate organization at Cornell University founded in 2010. CHS educates and fosters appreciation for historical topics and methodology with the undergraduate student population and the community at large. This journal, launched in the Spring of 2011, showcases stellar examples of undergraduate research in the field of history. In 2021, Ezra's Archives was published online and articles can be read in this and previous issues on e-Commons.
History News
Alum launches first Smithsonian museum dedicated to women
Lisa Sasaki ’97 is helping to shepherd the high-profile new Washington, D.C., institution into existence
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A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising
“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."
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HIST 2515 Freedom Struggles in Southern Africa
HIST 2515 Freedom Struggles in Southern Africa (HST-AS) (HGS) Monday and Wednesday: 8:40-9:55 Professor Rachel Sandwell
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HIST 4338 Queer Histories of North Africa
HIST 4338 Queer Histories of North Africa (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HGS) Tuesday: 11:15-1:45 plus Independent Research Professor Paraska Tolan-Szkilnick
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$2.5M in A&S New Frontier Grants supports bold projects
A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.
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Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students
This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Thai elections defy long-standing rule banning criticism of monarchy
A growing dissatisfaction within Thailand with the country’s conservative monarchy makes a May 14 election significant.
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