Interdisciplinary seminars for Cornell graduate students & advanced undergraduates

Courses

Our fellows offer experimental interdisciplinary seminars on research topics related to the year's focal theme. These seminars are offered one time only! The theme for 2023-24 is "Crossing."

Course Resources

Fall 2023 Courses Spring 2023 Courses Humanities Scholars Program

Course Spotlights

Enroll in Fall 2023 Crossing courses!

Our Fall 2023 seminars explore concepts of affect theory, visual cultures, the concepts of "settlement," or "friendship," and trans theory and politics, among others, and delve deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme.

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SHUM 3750: Humanities Scholars Research Methods

Designed specifically for undergraduate students, the goal of the seminar is to teach and refine research methods (library research, note taking, organizing material, bibliographies, citation methods, proposals, outlines, etc.) as well as to guide students through the initial stages of a research project of your own design. Part of the Humanities Scholars Program.

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News

Uncovering historical mysteries at the A.D. White House

7/26/2023

Aidan Goldberg '25 is spending his summer putting together a history of the A.D. White House.

A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins

7/12/2023

Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.

Announcing the 2024-25 Focal Theme: Silence

6/20/2023

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for year-long residencies that reflect on the theme of Silence.

Robert Travers on his monograph, Empires of Complaints

6/08/2023

The Fellows’ Q&A series continues with a spotlight on Robert Travers, Professor of History at Cornell University and 2017-18 “Corruption” Faculty Fellow. His monograph Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793 (Cambridge University Press, September 2022), honorabl...

Ayelet Ben-Yishai on her new book, Genres of Emergency

5/17/2023

This iteration of the Fellows’ Q&A series features Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa and 2017-18 “Corruption” Society Fellow. Her new book, Genres of Emergency: Forms of Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English, was re...