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 2025-26 is "Scale."

Course Resources

Fall 2025 Courses Humanities Scholars Program Spring 2026 Courses

Course Spotlights

Enroll in Fall 2025 Scale courses!

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.

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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

'It's exciting to see how my research capabilities have expanded each semester'

Kate Sullivan is a history major.

First Guerlac Lecture to celebrate ‘rock star’ science historian

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.

Five elephants of various sizes wade in a water hole

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 –

Person paging through a notebook set on a table piled with archival materials

Symposium launches archive of Venezuelan migrant testimonies

On April 18, this collection of migrant experiences will be presented to the public in a daylong symposium at the A. D. White House.

Professor’s book probes afterlife of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

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).