David Silbey

Adj. Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning Cornell in Washington

History

Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

Humanizing the immigration issue

Molly O’Toole '09, this semester's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her work and life during two recent talks.

Prof. Tamika Nunley's book wins multiple prizes

Professor Tamika Nunley's book, “At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.," has now won two awards.

Quechua language instruction returns to Cornell

The Quechua language returned to Cornell’s curriculum this fall after a 15-year hiatus, thanks to a group of students who organized to bring it back and an instructor who traveled to Ithaca from her home in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.

America’s most destructive habit

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

Einaudi Center announces new Global Public Voices fellows

With a focus on inequalities and social justice, this year’s 27 Global Vices fellows will engage with national and international news media

President Pollack shares community updates

President Martha E. Pollack shares some updates from across the Cornell community.

Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

'Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It'

Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rauch will address misinformation in his talk "Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It."

New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

Japan’s imperial laws may doom the royal family

Historian Kristin Roebuck comments on the consequences of the marriage of Japan's Princess Mako.

COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

Historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demand for sanction relief.

White House acknowledges ‘right to stay home’ for climate migrants

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia comments on the report released this week by the White House on climate change and migration.

Weiss teaching awards honor 10 exceptional faculty

Three A&S faculty members have been selected to receive Stephen H. Weiss Awards honoring excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring, President Martha E. Pollack announced Oct. 18.