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The Society for the Humanities conducts several grant competitions for research, writing, and travel throughout the year. These grants are intended to foster the excellence in humanities research and writing for which Cornell faculty and graduate students are known. The Society places particular emphasis on innovative, interdisciplinary projects that involve Cornell colleagues from across the various disciplines of the humanities. In addition, the Society is proud to provide funding for humanities events organized by Cornell’s distinguished faculty as well as sponsor six to eight Visiting Fellows each year.
Two-year postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University hosted by rotating humanities departments. Linguistics Deadline: October 15, 2026 | |
| Faculty Fellowships | Open to Cornell faculty members only. One-year fellowships focused on an annual theme. Located at the A.D. White House. Deadline: October 30, 2026 |
Open to Cornell graduate students only. Nine-month fellowships focused on an annual theme. Includes a $35,661 stipend, tuition, and student health insurance. Located at the A.D. White House. Deadline: October 30, 2026 | |
| Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Performing and Media Arts | Two-year postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University hosted by rotating humanities departments. Performing and Media Arts Deadline: November 1, 2026 |
Ukrainian poet Olena Boryspholets will present a Nov. 10 reading at Cornell University featuring her work “Orpheus and Eurydice in New York.” The event highlights the City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence’s poetry and launches a broader classics and humanities series.
The College of Arts & Sciences' Society for the Humanities Fall Fellows’ Conference on Survival takes place Oct. 30 at Cornell University’s A.D. White House. Fellows will present interdisciplinary research on resilience, climate change, literature, history and culture.
Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a Black Critical Thought Symposium Oct. 2. The free event will feature interdisciplinary faculty and student presentations on Black studies, culminating in a keynote conversation with cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholars are among the 42 faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges and units named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013.
Our fall 2026 seminars explore concepts of the impacts of Japanese American wartime incarceration literature, political geology, precarity poetics and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Survival.
The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, a six-week summer program that serves as a hub for interdisciplinary inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, celebrated its 50th anniversary with events June 16-17.
Rural Humanities was an Andrew W. Mellon-supported initiative in public and engaged humanities that uses the tools of the humanities to critically approach, learn from, make visible, and support the realities of rural America, particularly in Central-Western New York: its histories, cultures, challenges, and futures. This initiative ended at Cornell on June 30, 2026.