A new book by Cornell authors traces how an influx of New Englanders made an indelible mark on Brooklyn, and how the arrival of Catholic and Jewish immigrants challenged that hegemony.
Ten exceptional early-career scholars will join the College of Arts and Sciences this year as recipients of Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships, enabling them to pursue leading-edge research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Appointed to the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History this year, Tamika Nunley is using her time at the Library of Congress to work on The Black Reproductive Justice Archive, a collection of oral histories.
Historian Daniel Immerwahr will re-establish the central importance of forests and fire to the settlement of the American West in the nineteenth century during this year's LaFeber-Silbey Lecture.
A $2.5 million grant will fund 13 research projects across the sciences, social sciences and humanities for novel investigations ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.
A mathematician and author of best-selling books that speak to math’s societal and technological roles in the world will visit campus March 13-17 as an A.D. White Professor at Large.
By graduation, humanities Ph.D. students often see only a path to a faculty or research career. The Graduate School offers programs to illuminate careers in industry, government, non-profits and more.