Our third iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor of Performing & Media Arts and Faculty Fellow for 2016-17, "Skin," Samantha Sheppard. Her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory, was just released this week (June 16, 2020) from University of California Press. 

The summer practicum, initially planned to take place in-person in Ithaca, has moved to remote learning, but students will still be meeting virtually weekly to focus on questions of the rural as well as theories, methods and practices of public humanities and community-engaged scholarship.

A group of 32 students from three colleges at Cornell will make up the first cohort of Humanities Scholars in a new program that will start in the fall, offered by the College of Arts & Sciences.

Our second iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania, Rahul Mukherjee, Atkinson Sustainability Fellow for the 2017-18 "Corruption" year. His book, Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty, was just published in March by Duke University Press.