With Thanksgiving just around the corner, families are likely starting to organize their holiday dinner. Cornell University experts Adrienne Rose Bitar and Robert Gravani comment on the history of vegetarian Thanksgiving meals and offer tips on how to keep this year’s dining experience safe.
The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative will bring together scholars from across the university and beyond to study the links between racism, dispossession and migration.
A new book by Tompkins County historian Carol Kammen and Elaine Engst, M.A. ’72, looks at the history of the women’s suffrage movement by examining it in microcosm at the local level.
American studies professor Maria Cristina Garcia, who came to the U.S. from Cuba as a child, joined in the May 16 celebration of the opening of the new Statue of Liberty Museum, which she helped create.
Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, and alumni architects J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler are among new recipients of American Academy of Arts and Letters honors.
A memorial commemoration for the late Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions Emeritus, will be held Saturday, April 21.
American novelist Toni Morrison died at the age of 88, her publisher announced Tuesday. Morrison received a master's in English from Cornell University in 1955 and was the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her work, which centered around issues of black identity and race, was “masterful, purposeful, precise and challenging,” says Noliwe Rooks, professor in the Africana Studies & Research Center.
New research co-authored by Nicholas Klein in the Department of City and Regional Plannning studies improper scooter, e-bike and motor vehicle parking in five U.S. cities.
