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.
Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
Grants help students with conferences, job-hunting expenses
Professional Development Grants are available thanks to generous alumni donations.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences selects Professor Sandra E. Greene for Membership
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently announced the selection of 213 new members, including Professor Sandra E. Greene. Membership in the academy is offered to leaders in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sectors. The academy was founded in 1780. Members have...
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.
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.
Alumni boost students' careers
Many alumni working for large and small companies mentor, encourage and recruit Cornell students.
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.
‘Losing Istanbul’: Personal histories illustrate an empire’s end
Mostafa Minawi gives the reader a street-level understanding of what it was like to live through the final decades of the Ottoman Empire.
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.
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.
History prof to appear in TV series
Professor Barry Strauss appeared in Barbarians Rising on the History Channell this past June.
Kerry imparts experience, hope to the ‘next generation’
Now more than ever, leadership is needed at all levels of government to overcome growing partisanship and to keep the United States in a strong position in the world on fronts such as democracy, cybersecurity and climate change, said former U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Oct. 29.
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.
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.
In election’s waning days, panel sees hope for democracy
Amid the clatter in the days before the presidential election – the long lines at early polls, racial strife, street protests, political ad skirmishes and the streaming patter of television punditry – three College of Arts and Sciences professors offered a bright light at the end of the 2020 tunnel: hope for democracy.
New book spotlights Ottoman expansion in Africa
For more than six centuries, the Ottoman Empire ruled a vast area of the world, from Central Europe to the Persian Gulf. “The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz,” a new book by Mostafa Minawi, tells the story of the Ottoman Empire’s expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism at the end of the...
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.
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.
When there’s an “I” in history
Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books.
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?
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.