Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme
"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
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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 2022-23 is Repair.
Those interested in auditing a course should contact the instructor for permission. The Society for the Humanities does not offer a major or a minor.
Course Resources
Course Spotlights
Enroll in Fall 2022 REPAIR courses!
Our Fall 2022 seminars explore concepts of kinship and collaboration, Indigenous land dispossession and reconciliation, illness contagion and recovery, among others, and delve deeply into intersectional interpretations of the theme of Repair.
Click here for course descriptions.
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.
News
A&S opens application portal for Klarman postdoc fellowships
Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Alexander Livingston on his new edited volume, James Tully: To Think and Act Differently
Our Q&A series highlights former Fellows' monographs and other projects that grew out of the research done during their Fellowship year at the Society for the Humanities. In the following Q&A, Alexander Livingston, 2018-19 Authority Faculty Fellow, discusses his new edited collection of essays on th...
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2023-24: The Year of Crossing
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for year-long residencies that reflect on the theme of Crossing.
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History wrapped up in song: “Singing Freedom” with Tsitsi Jaji, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and Ed Baptist
Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, poet and associate professor of English at Duke Tsitsi Jaji, and Cornell professor of history Ed Baptist, talk with Annette about ’Singing Freedom,’ a multi-layered collaboration with leading Black American composers and performers to create musical responses to materials i...
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Humanities students present diverse research projects
Humanities students studying an array of topics presented their work at the A.D. White House.
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Spring Fellows Workshop to showcase work on Afterlives
"At stake in afterlives is, then, not only what lives on, but how such ‘living on’ occurs – its modalities, mechanisms, processes, and translations – in which something both recognizable and new, ongoing and ‘eventful,’ persistent and epochal is at work. Thus, we are interested in not only the after...
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Humanities Scholars Program Spring Research Conference
This annual conference features outstanding Cornell senior student research in various humanities fields, student panel discussions, and oral presentations of student papers with postdoctoral and faculty respondents. The day will consist of brief presentations (approximately 10 minutes each) followe...
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