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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies program will be accepting submissions for the 2026 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize and 2026 LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize. Submission Guidelines: Entrants for either prize must be currently enrolled students at Cornell University. Works submitted for consideration must be your original work produced at any time during your tenure…
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries. At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
FWS: Topics in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies - FGSS 1100. This course offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice. Our first-year writing seminars investigate how gender and sexuality are…
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
Gender abolition is often described as a destruction of gender, an excision of gendering and gendered elements from society. While the idealistic promise of it can certainly be appealing, it has its discontents—such as the potential of removing vocabulary without fixing issues. However, this may not mean that gender abolition is not worth pursuing; instead,…
On October 16, 2024, the state of Italy passed a law that completely prohibits residents from seeking surrogacy abroad, with punishments ranging from fines up to $1.1 million (USD) to two years of imprisonment. Technically, the ban is an extension of a previous law prohibiting surrogacy that has been in effect within Italy since 2004.…
Throughout my journey in education studies, I have read about and analyzed the waysthat students of varying ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, and citizenshipstatuses navigate their educational spaces. Within and around schools, students are constantlymaking sense and meaning of their identities and how they interact with the worlds around them,including worlds that are constructed, imagined,…
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 –
For more than half a century, Cornell’s Adult University has offered summer courses on the Hill — from cooking to cycling and beyond.
Peer advisors in A&S Career Development help students accomplish their dreams and goals.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
More students can afford to stay on campus to work in faculty labs during the summer thanks to generous alumni.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Organized by trans Cornellians, the event will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective.
Trans Studies Now! is a year-long speaker series organized by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the LGBT Studies Program at Cornell, with co-sponsorship from the Department of Literatures in English and the Society for the Humanities. Featuring cutting-edge scholars from a range of disciplines, the series offers a forum for discussing this…
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Three A&S-affiliated graduate students are among the competitors advancing to the final round of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 22 students in the preliminary round.
The Program in LGBT Studies fosters the study of the growing and dynamic world of LGBT lives and histories. Envisioning and working toward a world (and campus!) where every member of every LGBTQ+ community has the freedom to live with dignity, respect, and equal protection, the Program sponsors speakers, runs programs, and offers courses that…
In the 2023-24 academic year, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, in concert with LGBT Studies, is sponsoring a Trans Studies Now speaker series—three separate events, with eight renowned speakers--that has attracted large audiences. Clearly, people care about the discrimination facing LGBTQ folks around the country (and the world).
In “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting a Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle,” Klarman Fellow Anna Shechtman combines a history of the crossword highlighting its early women innovators with her memoir of a personal challenge.
France is the first county in the world to include a right to an abortion in its constitution, underscoring the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms, says sociologist Landon Schnabel.
The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.
Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.