Our fourth iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features assistant professor of English at Williams College and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies  2016-18, Ricardo Wilson. His book, The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness, is out this month (July, 2020) from Northwestern University Press.

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.