From posters to precedent, humanities scholars showcase their research
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
LGBT Undergraduate Prize Runner Up: Anya Sudershan Khanna '26
Read the essay written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize runner up: "Gender Abolition: A Beauvoirian Argument for Discursive and Social Gender Expansion" by Anya Sudershan Khanna, Government and Sociology.
LGBT Undergraduate Prize Winner: Nic Oke '26
Read the essay written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize winner: "Cradle Contoversies: Examining Italy's Surrogacy Ban via Feminist Theory" by Nic Oke, FGSS Minor.
LGBT Undergraduate Prize Winner: Emileen Flores '25
Read the essay written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize winner: "Navigating Queerness and Education" by Emileen Flores, LGBT Studies minor.
'I learned to encourage sensitivity, collaboration and agency'
Davis Ouriel is majoring in performing and media arts & feminist, gender and sexuality studies
FGSS & LGBT Studies Spring 2025 Commencement Celebration!
FGSS & LGBT Studies commencement information.
In ‘Silence’ spring conference, Fellows ‘attend to what is not there’
On April 25, seven Society for the Humanities’ Fellows will present their projects in progress during the annual Spring Fellows’ conference, highlighting the various ways that the theme of silence has been explored –
Graduate Student Spotlight: Jingya Guo
Jingya Guo, FGSS Graduate Assistant, is a doctoral candidate in history from Hangzhou, China. She earned her B.A. from Zhejiang Normal University and M.A. in history and museum studies from Tufts University and now studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between pathology and health for female bodies in China under the guidance of TJ Hinrichs at Cornell.
Cook-Gray Lecture will examine transformative labor movement
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15: “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century.”
Emanuela Bianchi: Kinship and Truth in Ancient Greece
Looking closely at the archaic genealogy of gods and humans in Hesiod and approaching questions of genos through (post)structuralist conceptions of kinship, we will see how patriarchal kinship strives to determine the truth of genealogy and inheritance, while women’s relationship to truth is relentlessly disqualified.
What is the Gender of Gender Abolition? Presented by Dr. Perry Zurn
Drawing on resources as disparate as abolition democracy, prison abolition, reproductive justice, Marxism, and transfeminism, gender abolitionists often grapple with (and are called to grapple with) competing conceptualizations of abolition—how it works, what it looks like, and by what means it is accomplished.
Eve Iulo ‘26, FGSS minor, publishes in the Princeton PRISMS undergraduate journal
Eve Iulo is a third-year student at Cornell University, pursuing an interdisciplinary major in Feminist Media Studies and Technologies with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. See Eve's article, "Policing Pleasure: Prevailing Feminist Tensions with Neoliberal Governance and Power as Diffused in the Sexual Gig Economy," starting on page 65.
Bohannon, Manne event focuses on female body image, evolution
"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.
Explore home space in a teenage sitcom during upcoming lecture
"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
Writing Otherwise: Toward an Unconventional Academic Career
Lette Bragg, visiting assistant professor of English at Swarthmore College, received her Ph.D. in the Department of Literatures in English, with a concentration in FGSS, in 2018.
Queer Identities in Practice
This course will introduce students to the LGBTQAI+ umbrella experience through interactions with community partners and scholars specializing in issues of power, desire, sex, gender, race, and sexuality.
In ‘Fun Home’ and other books, queer narratives rework time
In “Never On Time, But Always in Time,” Kate McCullough of the College of Arts and Sciences examines four books to explore how queer narratives focus on the body and its senses to find alternative ways of experiencing and presenting time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture 2025
This year’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration will feature activist, writer, and lecturer Angela Davis, speaking on the intersectional struggle for liberation today.
Volunteer for the Advocacy Center's Hotline
Are you interested in helping those impacted by domestic and sexual violence? Do you want to make a positive impact on your community by listening and empowering others? Become a hotline volunteer!
LGBT Resource Center
The LGBT Resource Center is celebrating their 30th anniversary on campus!
Amanda Domingues Received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Amanda Domingues, Ph.D. candidate in Science & Technology Studies and minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, received the Cornelia Ye Award for excellence in teaching!
Cornell Anti-Detention Alliance Club Batavia Visit
Cornell Anti-Detention Alliance plans visit to Batavia.
Student Employee Spotlight: Eve Iulo '26
Read about Eve, an FGSS minor with a major in Feminist Media Studies & Technologies!
‘Violent indifference to women’ and gender stereotypes affect top ticket
The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election aren’t due to a simple dislike or distrust of women, but a reflection of America’s violent indifference to women.
Poet pictures ‘a place where a woman may find some peace’
In “Purchase,” a new collection of poems from Associate Professor Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, the author seeks consolation for grief by turning to specific sources of beauty.
Polishing resumes, building confidence: The impact of peer advisors
Peer advisors in A&S Career Development help students accomplish their dreams and goals.
‘Icon of national femininity’: Beyoncé to appear at VP Harris Houston rally
As Election Day closes in, a Cornell expert in Black feminism sees 'deep meaning and significance' in superstar Beyoncé's support for Vice President Kamala Harris.
FGSS Extraordinary Student: Fabiola Faroh '25
Meet Fabiola Faroh, FGSS’s 2025 Extraordinary Senior Student.
Reading group meets to discuss Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue
On October 24, The Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program is excited to host Zillah Eisenstein, professor of Anti-Racist Feminist Theory, Emerita, Ithaca College. Professor Eisenstein will be there to talk about her work on Palestine.
FGSS & LGBT Spring 2025 Course Offerings!
For the 2025 Spring semester, the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Studies Programs are offering a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
J. Ellen Gainor wins book award from Theatre Library Association
The George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize goes to Gainor for “The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism," which she co-edited.
Senior Student Spotlight: Jaliah Smith '25
Read about Jaliah Smith, a current FGSS and Philosophy major!
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.
"Me, my ghost and I / Together" and "Saturday Night [on Monday!]" with Christopher Matthews
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for "Me, my ghost and I / Together" and "Saturday Night [on Monday!]" with Christopher Matthews on Monday, October 7, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, followed by a community improvisation jam from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM, in Class of ’56 Dance Studio Theatre (SB10), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
FGSS Graduate Minor Spotlight: Oona Cullen
Oona Cullen, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature with minors in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and media studies, studies questions of embodiment, narrative, and form as they relate to experiences of race and gender.
Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?
Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.
2024 Reproductive Rights Film Festival
The second annual Reproductive Rights Film Festival will take place at Cinemapolis Thursday, September 19 through Sunday, September 22.
Cornell history scholars in residence at Institute for Advanced Study
Mara Yue Du, associate professor of history; Durba Ghosh, professor of history; and Rachel Weil, professor of history are pursuing research projects at the IAS campus in Princeton, New Jersey.
From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
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.
A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships
With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.
New trustees to join Cornell board in July
At its May 24 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected seven new trustees to four-year terms. The board also reelected a trustee from the field of labor.
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.
Hard work, personal stories bring speech team big wins
Cornell Speech Team members shared stories about gender, ethnicity, racism and their hometowns during the most successful season in the team’s 40-year history.
National Humanities Center selects two A&S professors as 2024-25 Fellows
Kim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Near Eastern studies, and Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history and director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies, will pursue research projects in residence in Durham, North Carolina.
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.
Ghosh to lead Cornell’s Society for the Humanities
Recently the faculty director of the Humanities Scholars Program, Ghosh brings to the Society scholarly background in the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent; academic focuses on gender and sexuality and South Asia; and broad experience with interdisciplinary collaborations.
'My purpose in life is to tell stories'
Asha Prabhat is a government; College Scholar; and feminist, gender & sexuality studies major.
‘Not her first rodeo’: Beyoncé scholar weighs in on ‘Cowboy Carter’
Professor of Africana studies Riché Richardson says reclaiming country music for the Black community and rebranding the genre as an inclusive space are triumphs of Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter.”
Community event will showcase trans philosophy and scholarship
Organized by trans Cornellians, the event will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective.