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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BA (Honours) History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2016
MA (Distinction) History and Strategic Studies University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2019
Africa
Military History
Social History
Gender History
Ph.D., History, minor in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Stanford University, 2022
M.A., History, Stanford University, 2017
B.A., History, Dartmouth College, 2009
B.A. in History and Philosophy, Colgate University (2021)
MPhil in World History, University of Cambridge (2022)
Master of Arts History (Africa) University of Mississippi 2022
Bachelor of Arts Honors in History University of Cape Coast 2017
Africa
Economic History
Social History
Gender History
Africa Diaspora
BA, History and English, Brooklyn College, 2022
BA in History and Italian Literature, Columbia University, 2021
M.A. in Medieval History, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022
B.A. in History and Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
• North Sea Empire
• Norman Conquest
• Anglo-Normans & the Angevin Empire
• Royal Women & Queenship
Corredor, María Paula. “Faros, boyas y balizas: la transformación de las ayudas a la navegación en Colombia (1876-1930).” Memorias, no. 49 (January 31, 2023): 11–41. https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.49.505.444.
Corredor, María Paula. “Papeles, cartas y oficios: Documentos sobre historia de la comunicación en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (1570-1579)”. El Taller de la Historia. 13 (2021), 273-282. https://repositorio.unicartagena.edu.co/handle/11227/13275
Corredor Acosta, María. “Entre el laberinto jurídico de la monarquía hispánica: El caso de un cacique del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1571-1578).,” April 7, 2017. http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/13580.
BA, History, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 2017.
MA, Documents and Books, Archives and Libraries, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 2020.
Maritime spaces, National projects, Caribbean Sea, Seascapes.