Department Homepage
The College of Arts & Sciences
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 2025-26 is "Scale."
Our Fall 2025 seminars explore concepts of queer kinship, politics of expression in Asia, figurines in the Middle Age, and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Scale.
Click here for course descriptions.
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.
Princeton history professor Michael Gordin will give the inaugural lecture celebrating the life and work of Henry Guerlac ’32, M.S. ’33, an influential historian of science and Cornell faculty member for three decades.
Read more
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 –
Read more
On April 18, this collection of migrant experiences will be presented to the public in a daylong symposium at the A. D. White House.
Read more
Latin American studies scholar Irina R. Troconis, assistant professor of Romance Studies, and 2021-22 Society for the Humanities "Afterlives" Faculty Fellow, publishes book, "“The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution,” (Duke University Press).
Read more
Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.
Read more
Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.
Read more
Announcing the 2025-26 cohort of Scale Fellows at the Society for the Humanities.
Read more
"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.
Read more