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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.
“I’d like to think [embracing ChatGPT as a new tool and teaching students to use it effectively] will win the day, but unfortunately it’s the most labor-intensive approach for instructors,” FGSS graduate field faculty member Kim Weeden tells The Cornell Daily Sun.
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The refurbishment and preservation of McGraw has become a top priority for the College of Arts & Sciences and the university.
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A New Year welcomes a new Director of Graduate Studies for the department of Sociology. As of the first of the year, Professor Vida Maralani takes the role over from Professor Erin York Cornwell, who’s proven remarkable dedication to the position over the last few years.
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Black at Cornell, a town hall and community event on Feb. 2 at 6 p.m., launches Black History Month on campus. Students, faculty and staff will gather in the Africana Center multipurpose room to discuss global Blackness and the experience of being Black on campus – and finish out the night with refr...
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In WWII, two-thirds of the 60,000 Italian civilian victims of Allied bombing were killed when Italy was no longer an enemy. Matt Evangelista explores this seeming paradox in a new book.
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The stakes of cultural appropriation are high, particularly given the history of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery Black women in this country have faced, said Riche Richardson, a professor of Africana studies and FGSS graduate field faculty member at Cornell University.
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FGSS graduate field faculty member Carole Boyce-Davies, a featured speaker for the Black Artist Talk event and professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University, explains that twerking traditionally served a specific purpose.
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A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures.
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.