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"Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present", edited by Wannasarn (Saam) Noonsuk. Dedicated to Professor McGowan with contributions from past and present PhD students.
Many alumni working for large and small companies mentor, encourage and recruit Cornell students.
The fourth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program’s launch in 2019.
In the Society for the Humanities Invitational Lecture Feb. 15, art historian Verity Platt will present her research on the humble sea sponge.
Kelly Presutti, History of Art Assistant Professor is chairing a panel at CAA’s 2023 conference titled Liquidities: Seascapes as Subject and Method
Jolene Rickard and Ananda Cohen-Aponte to deliver the 2022-2023 Rabinor Lecture in American Studies
“Transcending Fragments” is the first detailed account of the life and art of Fong Chung-Ray.
Cornell University Library’s annual Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences is funding three new projects aimed at conserving fragile, physical artifacts and digitizing them for research and scholarship.
The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university.
A faculty committee is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.
Some sports films, both fictional and documentary, make important cultural statements, argues Samantha Sheppard in her new book.
The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
Harper Tooch ’21 combined her interests in anthropology, archaeology and art history to study the culture of Armenia.
Name and title: Kelly Presutti, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Visual Studies Academic focus: 19th-century European art, landscape, environmental history Current research project: A book on landscape representation and the changing politics of land use in post-Revolutionary France
An interdisciplinary group of scholars is exploring “Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage,” through a grant from the provost's Radical Collaboration task force focused on the arts and humanities.
A new edited volume, “Classics and Media Theory,” features participants from a Cornell media studies conference exploring the interactions between media and antiquity.
"An art show, like a book, has to tell a story," says Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies and professor of Africana studies, noting that when art produced by white artists is defined as "American" and art produced by African-Americans is defined as "ethnic," that story is one of exclusion.
"Ophelia"
For the 15 students in a new interdisciplinary class this semester, the murals common throughout East Harlem have deeper meanings than passersby might realize.
Chinelo Onyilofor ’15 has found that her studies in chemistry and art history have taught her the art of looking for small details, whether she’s finding the hidden meaning in a painting or an answer to solve a chemical synthesis.After she graduates this weekend, Onyilofor, a double major in the College of Arts and Sciences from Annapolis, Maryland, plans to travel for a year before going to graduate school to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry.
Aby Warburg – whose early 20th-century emphasis on the power of recurrent images was eerily prescient of contemporary thought – died before he could finish his “Mnemosyne Atlas,” consisting of large panels of collages tracing the history of art.
Some hidden Cornell treasures soon will be available to scholars around the world, thanks to the Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Grants Program for Digital Collections, which this year awarded four grants.
American Studies Program, History of Art and Visual Studies, Society for the Humanities