Keeping It Eel: How One Historian Is Using Twitter and Medieval Factoids to Help Endangered Animals

Event Alert!

Eric Rebillard (Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University) will give a virtual talk entitled, "The Acts of Christian Martyrs as Living Texts" on September 17, 2020 at 1:25 PM. A link to the event on Zoom will be made available upon request to Linda Brown (lmb296@cornell.edu).Cornell Event page

"Medieval Teachers and Students: A Roundtable in Honor of Arthur Groos", submission deadline approaching

The Cornell University Graduate Program in Medieval Studies and the Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS) welcome submissions for the session Medieval Teachers and Students: A Roundtable in Honor of Arthur Groos at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University May 13-May 15, 2021, in Kalamazoo, Michigan...

Long-Awaited Update Arrives for Radiocarbon Dating

“We’ve moved to a new generation of accuracy and precision. With that will come a new focus on exactly what has been dated and how that radiocarbon age has been created.”Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences, on recent adjustments to the radiocarbon-dating process.For the full...

Applications open for Klarman fellowships

The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.

Announcing a New Reading Group: Decolonizing the Global Middle Ages

We invite students and faculty associated with Medieval Studies at Cornell to join us in a new reading group, currently titled Decolonizing the Global Middle Ages. This reading group is intended to help grad students (and faculty) gain a solid understanding in anti-racist and anti-colonialist literature from which to develop an anti-racist...

Join us for Virtual Reunion 2020, June 5-6

Students, faculty make art in the time of coronavirus

Making art addresses “the emotions of the times,” said Helena Maria Viramontes, director of the Creative Writing Program. “We should ‘speak, so that we can heal.’”

Einaudi-funded Ph.D. students think globally, act remotely

Aparajita Majumdar, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history, spent six hours last summer hiking through the Khasi hills of eastern India to find one of the region’s famed living root bridges.

Ana Ozaki, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history of architecture and urban development, befriended her cab driver in Maputo, Mozambique, while investigating how race and climate meet in that country’s architecture.

Classics scholar awarded Guggenheim fellowship

Eric Rebillard, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2020 fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.A historian of early Christianity and late antiquity, Rebillard is one of 175 writers, artists, scholars and scientists awarded the...