In two related virtual events, the Humanities Scholars Program, together with the Africana Studies and Research Center, will examine the topic of abolitionism from a scholarly and community perspective.
Alexis Soloski, a theater critic for The New York Times, has been named winner of the 2019-20 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award is presented by the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale.
Tom Pepinsky, a Tisch University Professor in government, will be the inaugural Walter F. LaFeber Professor. The professorship was created thanks to a gift from Andrew H. Tisch ’71 and Ann Rubenstein Tisch.
Landon Schnabel, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University, says that for highly religious American women like Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, their religious identity trumps their gender identity when it comes to reproductive politics.
Applications are being accepted through Oct. 15 for the second cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program, in the College of Arts and Sciences.
On December 7, Emilia Illana Mahiques and Macarena Tejada López, lecturers in Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, showcased a student art exhibit assignment on social justice concepts with support from the Center for Teaching Innovation and Language Resource Center.
Two renowned biologists, May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, and Ellen Rothenberg, have been appointed to six-year terms as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
