From posters to precedent, humanities scholars showcase their research
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
S. Gottfried wins inaugural Carol Kaske Prize
S. Gottfried won the Carol Kaske Prize for the essay, "We’re Off to the Wild Woods: A Phenomenological Investigation of the First Branch of the Mabinogi"
Willow Groundwater-Schuldt wins inaugural Tom Hill Graduate Essay Award
Willow Groundwater-Schuldt won the Tom Hill Graduate Essay Award for her essay, "The Hysteric Kriemhild"
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette awarded a Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship, Yale
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette will be in residence at Yale during the 2025/26 academic year as a Henry Roe Cloud Fellow in support of her dissertation, “Converting the Wilderness: The Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Early Medieval England and Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nihgeh.”
Alice Wolff earns honorable mention for Knight Institute Slevin Award
Alice awarded a James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence honorable mention.
Giving Day 2025
March 13, 2025
Zachary Thomas awarded a Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Zachary Thomas, was nominated for and awarded this fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year!
MSSC 2025: Dissonance and Dysphoria
On Saturday, February 22, the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium will take place at the A.D. White House on Cornell's Ithaca campus.
Medieval Studies Spring 2025 Roundtable
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette, Ph.D. Candidate in Medieval Studies, publishes article in Speculum
The article, “Anglo-Saxonism and Indigenous Dispossession: Land-Grab Universities and the Emergence of Medieval Studies” is in Speculum's Centennial Issue (January 2025).
Manning honored for contributions to archaeology
Sturt Manning, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) in Boston in November.
New student awards honor Medieval studies faculty
Medieval Studies has created new prizes for students. Submissions for both prizes are due Jan. 31 and will be judged by a faculty panel in the Medieval Studies Program.
Alice Wolff, Ph.D. Candidate in Medieval Studies, publishes article in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Alice Wolff, current Medieval Studies graduate student, publishes her article "A thorny problem: defining weeds from the medieval to the present" in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
Conference considers medicine from historical standpoint
The Nov. 2 conference will focus on an interdisciplinary approach.
Sophia D'Ignazio, Ph.D. 2022, publishes article in Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Schoolgirl Grammar: Reading and Writing Beyond the Classroom" in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 123.4.
LaVoy-Brunette and Chauncy publish in Medieval Ecocriticisms
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette and Jordan Chauncy, Ph.D. candidates in Medieval Studies, have published a co-authored article, "Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves," in Medieval Ecocriticisms 4 (2024).
A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
CfP: 2025 Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloquium: Dissonance and Dysphoria
The Medieval Studies program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which will take place in person at Cornell University in the A.D. White House on Saturday, February 22nd 2025.
Medieval Studies Fall 2024 Roundtable
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Un-Stated: Low-Authority Societies in Medieval Europe
May 28 and 29: Physical Sciences 401 May 30: Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Outstanding A&S teachers, advisors honored with 2024 awards
Among the faculty members being recognized this year for exceptional teaching and mentorship are Liliana Colanzi, Durba Ghosh, and Nick Admussen.
Giving Day 2024
Thursday, March 14
Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus
Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.
2024 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC): "Subjectivities"
Saturday, March 2 on Zoom
Medieval Studies faculty lecture, Thursday 15 February
Simone Pinet will give the Romance Studies annual faculty lecture entitled "Silence, Voice, Noise: Sound Scenes from the 'Poem of the Cid'"
Spring 2024 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable
Select Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm in Olin Library 703
Sophia D'Ignazio, Ph.D. 2022, publishes article in Medieval Feminist Forum
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Women’s Public Language in the 'Old English Apollonius of Tyre'" in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 59, No. 1 (2023).
Chat in the Stacks with Courtney Ann Roby
Wednesday, Feb 21 at 4:30pm Olin Library 107
Zachary Thomas publishes translated edition in the Thomistic Ressourcement Series
Thomas' edition and translation of Fr. Franck Quoëx's "Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History" has been published as part of the Thomistic Ressourcement Series (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
James John, medieval historian, dies at 95
A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.
Medieval Studies and COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture present a lecture with Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music) (USC)
Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music) will be presenting on, "Sounding the Saints in Books of Hours," at 5:15 PM on Monday, October 30 (AD White House and Zoom)
2024 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium: Medieval Subjectivities
The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024.
Medieval Studies and COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture present a lecture with David Alberton (USC)
David Albertson (USC) will be presenting on, "What Does Geometry Have to Do with Mysticism? Space and Interiority in Medieval Christian Thought," at 5 PM on Sept. 29 (401 Physical Sciences Building)
Paul Vinhage, PhD 2022, named a 2023-2024 Mellon Fellow at PIMS
Recent Medieval Studies PhD graduate, Paul Vinhage, was named a 23/24 Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable: Fall 2023 Schedule
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
2023 Opening Reception
Cornell’s Medieval Studies Program invites you to our Fall 2023 Opening Reception
Alice Wolff awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
Zachary Thomas publishes book
Thomas' edition and translation of Honorius Augustodunensis's 'Gemma animae' (with his collaborator Gerhard Eger) has been published by the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard University Press)
Tyler Wolford named an ANAMED fellow at Koç University for 23-24
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Tyler Wolford, was awarded this fellowship to work on his project, "Mountain Resilience: Settlement on Mount Latros and Mykale in Middle Byzantine Western Asia Minor" next year in Istanbul.
Alice Wolff awarded the 2023 Deanne Gebell Gitner '66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this prize for her excellent Freshman Writing Seminar teaching
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette awarded a Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Sarah LaVoy, was nominated for and awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising
“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."
Medieval Studies Commencement 2023
4:30pm on Friday, May 26 in the Hans Bethe House dining room.
Modern Extremism and the Medieval World Lecture and Workshop
April 22 10:00-1:30: Lecture in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall 1:30-4:00: Workshop in Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Giving Day, 16 March, 2023
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Cornell University Library Conservation Services is hosting a "Medieval Writing Open House"
Thursday, March 16, 4:15-6pm, Olin Library B-32
2023 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium
The 2023 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), "Lacunae," will be held virtually on Zoom on Saturday, March 11, starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time.