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The best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers

Academics

Since 1966, Cornell’s Program in Medieval Studies has combined the best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers in a variety of traditional disciplines. The Program’s faculty are drawn from nearly every humanities department at Cornell; together, they offer expertise in a wide array of disciplines and area studies spanning more than a millennium of languages and cultures—from Old and Middle English literature to Byzantine monuments; from Viking studies to Andalusian architecture; from Chinese intellectual history to Islamic legal history.

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Student Groups

The Medieval Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) is an independent entity. Its funds are purely and wholly for the disposal of its own working brief. The MSGA is dedicated to being a forum for sustained discussion and debate within the student medievalist body on campus and to strengthening connectivity between these students. 

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The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC) is an independent organization dedicated to showcasing the ideas and research of the medievalist graduate student community at Cornell and the wider world, and to strengthening the connectivity between these medievalists.   

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Quodlibet provides a lively forum for all those interested in all things medieval on campus, and organizes a series of lectures to highlight current research topics relating to medieval studies.

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Figure 1. Illustration of “curmelle,” an unidentified species of Centaurea. Fol.1r from Oxford MS Bodley 130.
Figure 1. Illustration of “curmelle,” an unidentified species of Centaurea. Fol.1r from Oxford MS Bodley 130.

Alice Wolff, PhD '25, publishes article in Weed Technology

Alice Wolff (Ph.D. 2025, Cornell Medieval Studies) and Antonio DiTommaso (Professor, Cornell University) published their article, "To know diverse manner of weeds: the development of weed identification manuals in early modern England and their influence on North American guides" in Weed Technology,...

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