The Department of History thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell. The faculty includes more than a dozen prize-winning authors as well as winners of Cornell’s prestigious teaching and advising awards.
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National Humanities Center selects two A&S professors as 2024-25 Fellows
Kim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Near Eastern studies, and Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history and director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies, will pursue research projects in residence in Durham, North Carolina.
Read more'I learned that my interests in history and finance are not mutually exclusive'
Skyler Risom is a history major.
Read more'Real world issues often don’t fit into the neat boxes of disciplines'
Mayanka Dhingra is a history and science & technology studies major.
Read moreEinaudi seed grants grow international collaborations
A new round of Einaudi Center seed grants will help faculty from across Cornell, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, tackle issues ranging from drone-assisted healthcare delivery for migrants to sustainable infrastructure design for Ukraine.
Read moreHistory alum receives Pulitzer Prize for story of dementia
Katie Engelhart ’09 is recognized for “for her fair-minded portrait of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia."
Read moreRussia’s nuclear saber-rattling like ‘cocking a gun in an old western movie’
Military historian David Silbey: "You’re not using it yet, but everyone’s aware that you’ve got it.”
Read moreRemembering the sacrifice of a Cornellian lost in war
Campus event honored Marine Corps Maj. Richard Gannon ’95, who was just 31 when he died in Iraq two decades ago
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