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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.
Katrina Greene ’27 spends most of her free time at Cornell working on issues related to injustice – whether through the State Policy Advocacy Clinic, the Gender Equity Resource Center or the Caribbean Students’ Association. So, it’s no surprise that civil rights leader John R. Lewis is someone she a...
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Since Beth Harrington moved to Caroline, New York in 1974, she’s served her community as a nurse, an EMT, a paramedic and a firefighter. Now 80, she’s been the president of the Slaterville Volunteer Fire Company for 30 years.
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Writer, multidisciplinary artist and theologian Tricia Hersey will speak on “Rest Is Resistance” at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
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In the publishing industry, there’s a common belief that men won’t read novels about women, but new research out of Cornell finds just the opposite.
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During the fight against apartheid in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC), home party of leader Nelson Mandela, considered what a future free society would look like and how that goal should be achieved, says historian Rachel Sandwell.
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Incorporating a rainbow flag into a company’s website logo during Pride Month seems less meaningful to LGBTQ+ employees and customers than gestures of solidarity at other times of the year, new Cornell research finds.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana studies and music.
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Encouraging a growth mindset and being more subtle about the pursuit of power and dominance are among the ways women might rise through the ranks in the workplace, according to a new model that maps women’s pathways to influence.
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Cornell 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.