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In September 2018, Maria Cristina Garcia gave a presentation at the Cornell University Library's Chats in the Stacks book talk. Garcia's book, The Refugee Challenge in Post Cold War America, was the subject of her talk.During the talk, Garcia discussed refugee and asylum policy and how it has changed in the United States over time. The...
“Walter LaFeber was the most distinguished historian of American foreign policy in the last 60 years."
Joel H. Silbey, the President White Professor of History, Emeritus, a member of the Cornell history faculty, died on August 7, 2018. A memorial service was held on November 3, 2018, on the sixth floor of the Johnson Art Museum. The program was hosted by Joel’s son, David Silbey, associate director of the Cornell in Washington D.C. Program and a...
Proposals are due April 15 for a new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative, seeking to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession.
Charles Petersen, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in history, studies 20th-century American history to better understand the rise of social and economic inequality in recent decades.
Author Ijeoma Oluo, the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1, said the white male in America has always enjoyed relatively unfettered passage – usually at the expense of others.
Remembering Joel Silbey~Joel H. Silbey, the President White Professor of History Emeritus, a member of the Cornell history faculty, died on August 7, 2018.A memorial service was held on November 3, 2018, on the sixth floor of the Johnson Art Museum. The program was hosted by Joel’s son, David Silbey, associate director of the Cornell in...
When I interviewed for a job in corporate finance at Houghton Mifflin in 1992, the publishing firm’s CEO was far more interested in my history degree than my CPA. He grilled me about what I’d studied and how the history courses I’d taken had been taught. To this day, I believe that my passion for what I’d studied in college was the tipping point...
Faculty member Mostafa Minawi collaborated with the TED_Ed team to create a short primer for students.
Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1. This year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."
Sandra Greene held a Chat in the Stacks at Olin Library this past spring. The Cornell University Library has made the talk available on YouTube. During the talk, Professor Greene discusses her book, Slave Owners in West Africa. This video is linked here.
A podcast launched this semester by the Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, provides a space for humanities scholars to share ideas virtually, keeping cross-disciplinary dialogue going even during pandemic conditions and extending the reach of these conversations beyond Cornell.
Ed Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $750,000 digital infrastructure grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the development of the Freedom on the Move (FOTM) database. Launched in 2014, the database collects and compiles fugitive slave advertisements from 18th- and 19th-century U.S. newspapers.
Mostafa Minawi, assistant professor of history and the director of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative (OTSI), has been awarded the ANAMED fellowship, from the Koҁ University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul. He is currently working on two research projects. The first is a follow-up to his book, The Ottoman Scramble...
Moderated by Kat Stafford, national investigative writer at The Associated Press, the webinar will feature five Cornell faculty experts.
Students in the program undertake their own independent, interdisciplinary undergraduate research in the humanities.
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!
Political polarization, environmental justice and inclusion in higher education are a few of big issues faculty members—including several from the College of Arts and Sciences—will tackle in the next academic year as fellows at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).
Physics major Jacob Weintraub, a history student, won the Naval Historical Foundation Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn Award for his essay, US Naval Aviation Failures in the Early Pacific Campaign of World War II. The prize was awarded in October and was based on Jacob's essay for Professor John Weiss' course, Strategy in World War II: History 4660...
Mary Beth Norton will discuss her book, “1774: The Long Year of Revolution,” in the next “Book Breaks” discussion, hosted Jan. 31 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.
Cornell faculty member, María Cristina García, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The 228 new academy members – accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, business and philanthropic leaders – also include singer and philanthropist John Legend, actress Carol Burnett and mathematician...