
The College welcomes new faculty for 2023-24
Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
/news/college-welcomes-new-faculty-2023-24Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
/news/college-welcomes-new-faculty-2023-24Cornell's collection is the largest hip-hop collection in the world.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/08/breaking-beyonce-hip-hop-collection-empowers-studentsNexus Scholars spent eight weeks this summer working with researchers on campus on projects in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.
/news/undergrads-relish-challenging-nexus-scholar-projectsAndy 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.”
/news/comic-takes-little-known-historiesRachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/dean-jayawardhana-named-provost-johns-hopkinsBeltrán is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from the Bronx, N.Y.
/news/student-spotlight-elias-beltranPhD candidate Kun Huang considers how Chinese writers have imported and repurposed portrayals of Blackness.
/news/translating-racial-storiesThis 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.
/news/nexus-scholars-program-expands-research-opportunities-101-studentsPart 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.
/news/multi-college-scholars-think-deeply-about-citiesAditi Hukerikar is a government and comparative literature major.
/news/my-thesis-gave-me-chance-connect-my-own-heritageThese awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
/news/cornell-center-social-sciences-names-spring-granteesHannah 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.”
/news/recent-alumna-awarded-bernheimer-prizeThe Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”
/news/film-co-produced-natalie-melas-wins-awardProf. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.
/news/book-goes-underground-find-how-climate-change-shapes-storiesAn open forum will address how the OpenAI large-language model ChatGPT will improve research productivity in the humanities.
/news/chatgpt-and-humanities-forum-march-24A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/wondering-what-read-2023-faculty-offer-ideasGlobal Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.
/news/cornell-global-partners-discuss-next-grand-challengeThe minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
/news/students-can-now-choose-new-minor-data-scienceThe program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
/news/nexus-scholar-applications-open-summer-2023More than a dozen students are taking part in the Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell.
/news/fabric-arts-human-waste-student-biennial-projects-transcend“We want to open a robust dialogue between humanists and scientists around the very notion of ‘thought’ and ‘thinking,."
/news/conference-considers-art-science-thinking-oct-21-22A 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.
/news/alumni-return-celebrate-theatre-troupes-30th-anniversary"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
/news/community-read-launches-society-humanities-repair-themeKlarman 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.
/news/opens-application-portal-klarman-postdoc-fellowshipsIn a new book, Prof. Timothy Murray illuminates technological improvisation at the intersection of art and politics.
/news/book-views-virtual-real-world-through-new-media-artists-eyesSeed 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.
/news/einaudi-awards-fund-global-research-and-activitiesThe Department of Comparative Literature has awarded Kun Huang the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Award, and Praveen Tilakaratne the 2022 Graduate Student Essay Award.
/news/congratulations-years-graduate-prize-winnersCornell 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.
/news/migrations-grants-fund-worldwide-interdisciplinary-projectsJonathan Mercedes is a comparative literature major.
/news/i-did-not-close-myself-my-potentialNaminata Diabate outlines the movement's tactics and explains how womens' protests helped end the Liberian civil war.
/news/how-did-leymah-gbowees-protests-lead-lasting-peaceWith the theme “Futurities, Uncertain," the fifth Cornell art biennial will feature artworks, installations, and performances.
/news/2022-cornell-biennial-artist-preview
Debra Castillo and Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, recently convened a new working group with support from the CNY Humanities corridor. Under the auspices of Teatrotaller, Debra Castillo is also directing a full length play on gender violence in Latin America.
See how Eliana structured her Comparative Literature major.
/news/planning-program-study-eliana-rozinovOn 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.
/news/more-12m-donated-support-students-24-hoursThe journal, which is a review of contemporary criticism, is celebrating with an anniversary blog.
/news/diacritics-journal-turns-50Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
/news/support-arts-sciences-giving-day-march-16Comparative Literature majors are invited to apply for the Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant to support language study outside of the US during the 2022 calendar year. Professor Rosenberg was a devoted teacher who was passionate about foreign language study, and has generously provided the Department of Comparative Literature with an endowment that...
/news/applications-edgar-rosenberg-travel-grant-due-march-31-2022"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.
/news/cornell-cinema-receives-grant-announces-spring-lineupTimothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
/news/professor-named-chair-state-humanities-organization“It is my hope that ‘Naked Agency’ will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.”
/news/naminata-diabate-wins-asa-book-prize-naked-agencyA&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/what-read-2022-faculty-weighA $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
/news/alumni-gift-supports-doctoral-students-humanitiesFive essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
/news/rural-humanities-projects-explore-nys-past-and-presentGail Holst-Warhaft, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Graduate Field at Cornell's Department of Music, has recently published her book Nisiotika: Music, Dances, and Bitter-Sweet Songs of the Aegean Islands. The book focuses on the Greek tradition of nisiotika, the music and songs that are played and sung at festivals...
/news/nisiotika-music-dances-and-bitter-sweet-songs-aegean-islandsThe program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
/news/nexus-scholars-program-applications-now-openThe 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.
/news/new-program-expands-undergrad-research-opportunities“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.
/news/transdisciplinary-film-explores-trinidad-and-tobagoThis fall, a new group of Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners are beginning work on projects to enhance student learning environments across Cornell.
/news/reshaping-student-experiences-through-new-innovations-teachingApplications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
/news/applications-now-open-klarman-postdoc-fellowships