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Programs, Centers and Institutes[Directors] |
Brief Description |
| Africana studies is a tradition of intellectual inquiry and study of African peoples. Africana scholars document the global migrations and reconstruction of African peoples as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the peoples of the African diaspora). The Africana Studies and Research Center is comprised of nationally and internationally recognized scholars and educators, socially conscious intellectuals and students representing each of Cornell’s undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges. | |
| The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) at Cornell University is here to support our students throughout their academic careers. Since 1975, we have helped hundreds of Native American Students reach their educational goals. Our students obtain undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in subjects from architecture, to nutritional science, to zoology. We are also a source of education about the cultures of North American Indians, enabling both Native and non-Native students to develop respect for and an understanding of Indigenous world views through our curriculum in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS). The program extends Cornell resources to American Indian and Indigenous communities and creates forums to educate others about American Indian and Indigenous issues. | |
| The Program in American Studies offers an interdisciplinary engagement with what America means in the United States and in a global context. Faculty encourage students to look at the meaning and reality of the evolving United States as a question still in need of answering and as an experiment still in process, not as a dream fully realized. We use multiple perspectives and methodologies and require that students synthesize knowledge in ways that develop the skills needed for rigorous, complex analysis. | |
| In the classroom, in scholarship, and through campus and community advocacy, the Program is committed to examining the histories and experiences; identities, social and community formations; politics; and contemporary concerns of people of Asian ancestry in the United States and other parts of the Americas. | |
| The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is the hub of collaborative sustainability research at Cornell University, forging vital connections among researchers, students, staff, and external partners. The center’s funding and programming accelerate groundbreaking research within and across all of Cornell’s colleges and schools. In turn, the center is the university’s home to bold ideas and powerful new models that ensure people and the planet not only survive, but thrive. Cornell Atkinson provides you with the opportunity to connect with passionate experts and innovators, theorists and practitioners, business leaders and philanthropists. Join us in catalyzing extraordinary change. | |
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The Cornell Farmworker Program is dedicated to improving the living and working conditions of farmworkers and their families. We also seek recognition for farmworker’s contributions to society and their acceptance and full participation in local communities. The Cornell Farmworker Program envisions a state and nation in which farmworkers receive equal protection under law, earn a living wage, live in comfortable housing, are safe and healthy, receive due respect as workers and as individuals, and participate fully in their communities. |
| Inequality lies at the heart of current debates about opportunity and equity, implicating numerous contemporary policy issues. Public and scholarly interest in inequality has intensified, not merely because of historic increases in income and wealth disparity in the United States and other advanced industrial countries, but also because inequalities of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class are evolving in dramatic and complicated ways. Cornell University is a leading center of scholarship on inequality, drawing strength from its many departments and colleges. | |
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Cornell Center for Health Equity [Jamila Michener, Co-Director] |
Despite substantial investment in research and strong public commitment, little progress has been made to date to improve health equity in the United States and to help people attain full health potential. Significant racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare persist, including disadvantages in access to basic treatment, and impact a broad range of health issues, from differences in length and quality of life to rates and severity of disease and disability. Furthermore, there is a pressing need for research to better understand the “why” underlying health equity disadvantages. How do social position and other socially determined factors contribute to persistent health inequities? The Cornell Center for Health Equity responds directly to the growing need to better understand both the root causes and the manifestations (symptoms) of persistent health inequity. The Cornell Center for Health Equity responds directly to community priorities by focusing on two themes: 1) multiple vulnerabilities to health disparities and 2) stigmatized conditions. |
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Cornell Center for Social Sciences
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The Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) accelerates, enhances, and amplifies social science research at Cornell. The CCSS accomplishes these goals by uniting programmatic and infrastructure resources within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR). Programmatic resources include programs run by the former Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) from 2004–2019 and new programs designed to foster systematic, evidence-based, and collaborative research studies addressing important disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and public policy concerns. Infrastructure resources support all aspects of social science research at Cornell. The CCSS either provides this research support directly or directs Cornell social scientists to the available services and support provided by other centers and units at Cornell. At the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, we are actively working to combat systemic racism. Read a statement from our Directors and learn about our activities here. |
| The mission of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) is to provide courses leading to college degrees for people incarcerated in upstate New York State prisons; to help CPEP students build meaningful lives inside prison as well as prepare for successful re-entry into civic life; and to inform thought and action on social justice issues among past and present CPEP students, volunteers, and the wider public. | |
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[ Alex Travis ]
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Cornell University offers a campus-wide Master of Public Health (MPH) program to help build public health leaders who are inspired and trained to ensure the health of people, animals, and the world in which we live. The Cornell MPH Program is founded on three pillars—Sustainability, Equity, and Engagement—that inform our approach to teaching, research, service and practice. Public health is a profession that bridges disciplines to prevent disease, promote health and well-being, and prolong life among populations. Given the nature of our interactive global community, public health is complex. To achieve public health in this era, we must think in bigger and bolder ways, with sustainability and equity at the core. To do this, we need many minds with varied backgrounds and perspectives gathered around one table with shared goals. The Cornell MPH Program is led by experts from diverse fields and practitioners from around the world to reinforce a multidisciplinary, engaged approach, preparing graduates to tackle diverse public health issues at municipal, state, national, and international levels. |
| The Worker Institute at Cornell engages in research and education on contemporary labor issues, to generate innovative thinking and solutions to problems related to work, economy and society. The institute brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to confront growing economic and social inequalities, in the interests of working people and their families. A core value of the Worker Institute is that collective representation and workers’ rights are vital to a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. | |
| The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is Cornell’s hub for campus engagement and global thinking and action. The Einaudi Center has helped students and scholars cross borders of language, culture, nationality, and academic discipline for more than half a century. Today Cornell is one of the most international universities in the world. The center organizes, stimulates, and supports research, teaching, and outreach programs and activities to enhance graduate and undergraduate education and to prepare Cornellians to contribute in the international sphere. These regional and thematic programs are the heart of the Einaudi Center: Global Racial Justice, Comparative Muslim Societies Program, East Asia Program, Institute for African Development, Institute for European Studies, Latin American Studies Program, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program . Our programs promote new ways of understanding people and places, as we work together across Cornell and around the world to tackle transnational challenges like migration, food security, and social justice. This Fellows Program is a key part of the Center’s academic infrastructure. | |
| The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBTQIA critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice. Students will learn how gender and sexuality are socially constructed, what these terms mean in various contexts, and how these concepts are used to support social and political institutions. They will also learn how critical analysis and creative questioning of these concepts can help to reshape those institutions. | |
| The Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) addresses the transnational scope of the modern in its multifarious engagement over centuries with capitalism, and colonialism, and follows their ramifications in the present. With an emphasis on developments outside of the historically constituted hegemonic spaces of Europe and the United States, ICM promotes the study of multiple axes of artistic, intellectual and social movements and the struggles attending the emergence of modern institutions and forms of knowledge. Such an orientation involves both attention to counterclaims of sovereignty and resistance that constitute the extended history of decolonization, and also serious attention to conflicts and critique within the West. Crucial to the ICM’s mission is inquiry into epistemologies and paradigms emerging from non-hegemonic societies and spaces. | |
| The Jewish Studies Program was founded on the conviction that the record contained in the languages, literature, and history of the Jewish people, as these developed across the globe and over thousands of years, are an integral part of the human heritage. Our goal is to ensure that the richness of Jewish culture and its impact on civilization are energetically presented to the Cornell community. | |
| All Cornell students are welcome to participate in Latina/o Studies Program’s academic and socio-cultural events, and to benefit from its dedicated and accessible staff and faculty members, rigorous and multidisciplinary curriculum, and its intercultural residential program house, the Latino Living Center, which provides students from many cultural backgrounds a safe and supportive environment where Latino cultures and worldviews are valued. On going research projects include humanities and social science scholars affiliated with the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell. Research focuses on the diverse Latino communities in the United States, and engage questions about community histories, im/migration, politics, labor, education, language and identity, health, literature, art and performance. | |
| The field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies is devoted to the investigation of the complexities of sexuality and its importance to the organization of social relations more generally. Primary among its concerns is also the study of the lives, the politics and the creative work of sexual and gender minorities. LGBT Studies is founded on the premise that the social organization of sexuality is best studied from interdisciplinary perspectives. At present, the program includes courses using a variety of methodological tools and disciplinary approaches: anthropological, psychological, sociological, biological, political, historical, literary, musical and artistic. | |
| In its coverage of the full sweep of Near Eastern/Middle Eastern literature and history, its interdisciplinary and comparative research, and its commitment to the undergraduate experience, the department is unique among its peers. | |
| The Division of Nutritional Science studies human nutrition at levels ranging from molecules to populations, drawing upon the chemical, biological, and social sciences to understand the complex relationships among human health, nutritional status, food and lifestyle patterns, and social and institutional environments. The Division includes a number of centers, institutes, and programs. | |
| The Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Institute for Global Development supports theoretical and applied social science research. We fund projects and working groups that address issues ranging from economic inequality to discursive politics, contributing to Cornell’s leadership in global development. | |
| The Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life promotes interdisciplinary learning about morally central questions concerning public policies and social, political and economic processes. | |
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[ Annette Richards ] |
Cornell’s Society for the Humanities was established in 1966 as one of the first humanities research institutes in North America. Located in the historic home of Cornell’s first president, Andrew Dickson White, the Society brings distinguished visiting fellows, Cornell faculty, and graduate student fellows together each year to pursue research on a rotating interdisciplinary focal theme. (Archive of themes.) In addition to participating in our legendary Wednesday fellows seminar, fellows offer one experimental, innovative course on their research topic and present their work at the yearly conference. |
