‘Adventurous’ classical scholar Pietro Pucci dies at 96
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
An avid lepidopterist since childhood, Nabokov was known to spend most of his free time on campus in the Cornell University Insect Collection.
Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.
On March 15 the College of Arts & Sciences takes over the Mann Library for this semester's Arts Unplugged, "Nabokov, Naturally," celebrating esteemed Cornell faculty member, Vladimir Nabokov as writer and "butterfly man."
Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.
Associate professor of comparative literature, Naminata Diabate, was named one of ten 'African scholars to watch in 2024' by The Africa Report.
Pinkham’s winning story follows migrants from Syria “wandering in a cold, wet purgatory” on the Polish border of the European Union.
In a new book, Professor Parisa Vaziri explores how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of Indian Ocean slavery.
Writer Vladimir Nabokov spent much of his time on campus in nature and in the Cornell Insect Collection.
The collaborative mixed media projects, showcased online and in Rockefeller Hall, explore how culture strengthens and uplifts communities.
Cornell's Ukrainian program is bringing the country’s culture to campus through language learning, folk tradition and history.
Banerjee will participate in a two-year academic leadership and governance fellowship.
Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.
A new book by assistant professor of comparative literature and near eastern studies, Parisa Vaziri, exams African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema.
The performance will feature singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré, who wrote the music for the original production.
At the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4, Jemisin spoke on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.
Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) for the best undergraduate student essay on the works of Giovanni Boccaccio.
The first woman to win a consecutive Southeast Asian Writers Award, Veeraporn Nitiprapha will discuss her newest novel, “Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat,” on Oct. 5.
Anindita Banerjee explains how dispossessed peoples’ stories can inspire a more equitable future for us all.
Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
Gavin Walker, Comparative Literature
Cornell's collection is the largest hip-hop collection in the world.
Nexus Scholars spent eight weeks this summer working with researchers on campus on projects in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.
Andy Warner '06 is the New York Times best-selling author of "Brief Histories of Everyday Objects,” “This Land is My Land,” “Pests and Pets” and “Spring Rain.”
Beltrán is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from the Bronx, N.Y.
PhD candidate Kun Huang considers how Chinese writers have imported and repurposed portrayals of Blackness.
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.
Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.
Aditi Hukerikar is a government and comparative literature major.
These awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”
The Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”
Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.
An open forum will address how the OpenAI large-language model ChatGPT will improve research productivity in the humanities.
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
Global Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
More than a dozen students are taking part in the Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell.
“We want to open a robust dialogue between humanists and scientists around the very notion of ‘thought’ and ‘thinking,."
A series of special events, including visits from alumni involved in theatre, film and television, is being planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Teatrotaller, a theatre troupe formed to promote Spanish, Latin American and Latino culture.
"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
In a new book, Prof. Timothy Murray illuminates technological improvisation at the intersection of art and politics.
Seed grants, student travel grants and internships totaling $355,000 in the 2021–22 academic year supported international work done by many A&S faculty and students.
The Department of Comparative Literature has awarded Kun Huang the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Award, and Praveen Tilakaratne the 2022 Graduate Student Essay Award.
Cornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.
Jonathan Mercedes is a comparative literature major.
Naminata Diabate outlines the movement's tactics and explains how womens' protests helped end the Liberian civil war.