The Department of History is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time periods and research interests. Its outstanding faculty specializes in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect undergraduate and graduate students with the excitement of historical discovery and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.

The department 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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Xinyang Li

Graduate Student

Madeleine Lemos

Graduate Student

Harry Churchill

Graduate Student

Publications

Harry Churchill: Rezension zu: Fajardo, Margarita: The World That Latin America Created. The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Cambridge 2022 , ISBN 978-0-674-26049-8, In: H-Soz-Kult, 17.10.2022, Rezension zu: M. Fajardo: The World That Latin America Created | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften | Geschichte im Netz | History in the web (hsozkult.de)

Lyu Cheng

Graduate Student

Xintong Chen

Graduate Student

Deborah Dinner

Professor of Law

Publications

  •   The Sex Equality Dilemma: Work, Family, and Legal Change in Neoliberal America (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)
  •   “The Care Crisis: Covid-19, Labor Feminism, and Democracy,” in Labor and Democracy (Mark Barenberg & Angela B. Cornell, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  •   “Sex in Public,” Yale Law Journal 129 (2019) (with Elizabeth Sepper)
  •   “Beyond ‘Best Practices’: Employment Discrimination Law in the Neoliberal Era,” Indiana Law Journal 92 (2017)
  •   “The Divorce Bargain: The Fathers’ Rights Movement and Family Inequalities,” Virginia Law Review 102 (2016)

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Wenrui Zhao

Postdoctoral Associate (ALI Program)

Joshua Simon Schwartz

Postdoctoral Associate (ALI Program)

Charlie Wang

Graduate Student

Ruth Lawlor

Assistant Professor

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