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The Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice.
Professor Debra Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss presidential fellow and Emerson Hinchliff professor of Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Oct. 5 at the age of 72.
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Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin ’67 said every woman who has read the title of her recent talk – “Why Women Won” – has balked.
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Liberals and conservatives both oppose censorship of children’s literature – unless the writing offends their own ideology, new Cornell research finds.
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Prof. Debra Castillo, comparative literature, died over the weekend, according to a Monday email sent to the College of Arts and Sciences community by Peter Loewen, dean of arts and sciences.
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Join the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program for a faculty work Luncheon with Jamie Budnick, Assistant Professor of Sociology
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My areas of academic expertise include, but are not limited to, African American women’s history, Black feminist theory, religion, ethnomusicology, performance and sound studies.
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A four-day symposium featuring films, panels, workshops and the unveiling of two murals will take place Sept. 18-21.
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Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
Read moreCornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.