Jordan Chauncy wins Tom Hill Prize
Jordan Chuancy, a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies, has been awarded the 2026 Tom Hill Prize for "Reason and the Egg: A Trans Feminine Roman de Silence."
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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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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Esther Grace Brenner wins Carol Kaske Prize
Esther Grace Brenner won the Carol Kaske Prize for the essay, "Juridical Authority and Visual Exegesis in the Rossano Gospels: Anatomizing Folio 16".
Admitted Class of 2030 seeks real-world impact
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries.
At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Your March 2026 reads
This month’s featured titles by A&S alumni and faculty include an evolutionary look at dating, a Christian work on inner peace and a queer love story.
MSSC 2026: Mirror Worlds
On Saturday, February 21, the 36th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium will take place at the A.D. White House on Cornell's Ithaca campus.
Spring 2026 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
The long, deep dig: Collaboration excavates the ancient city of Sardis
From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its archaeological investigation has been remarkably consistent. Since 1958, the ancient city has been continuously excavated by one of the longest-running institutional projects, the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis.
New digital collections preserve, examine Cornell history
Newly published digital collections at Cornell University Library explore areas of Cornell history. Freely accessible online, the three new collections were digitized from materials held in Cornell University Library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections.