Joshua Sadinsky: ‘To be able to make a real positive change in the community feels good. It’s what I’m supposed to do’
Juliane Scholtz: ‘Have humility’
Juliane Scholtz
Physics & German studies
Hatboro, PA
Why did you choose Cornell?
Undergrad humanities scholars present their research
Meredith Chagares ’19 began her senior thesis in history, literally, with a footnote – one that led her to do investigative work for “Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How and Why the United States Covered Up Japanese World War II Biological Warfare Experiments.”“I discovered about Japan’s experiments via a footnote while researching Nazi experiments,” she said.
Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
First Rural Humanities showcase spotlights Cornell-community projects
The Rural Humanities Initiative offers seminars for students and supports faculty outreach in generating new scholarship.
$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program
For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.
Media studies scholars visit campus for 'Siren Echoes' conference
Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.
Professor Emeritus David Bathrick dies in Germany at 84
Beloved emeritus professor and scholar David Bathrick, who taught theater arts, German studies and Jewish studies at Cornell for 20 years, died April 30 at his home in Bremen, Germany. He was 84. Bathrick taught and inspired countless students and colleagues over a colorful and successful career in his chosen fields.
Yuqing (Eva) Cao: 'Mingle with people from all backgrounds'
Yuqing (Eva) Cao Comparative Literature & German Studies Beijing, China
What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education?
Recent grads start program to help high schoolers explore the humanities
"It’s a perfect time to start this because college grads have been left with canceled jobs and high school students are trying to figure out what to do when school is out.”
Congratulations from the Department of German Studies!
Congratulations from the Department of German StudiesCongratulations to Dr. Matthias Müller, graduating Ph.D. in German Studies! The Department of German Studies warmly congratulates Matthias Müller who defended his dissertation The Loser's Edge: Writing from the Vantage Point of the Vanquished, 1918-1945 during the past academic year and...
Jacqueline Tackett selected as a 2021 National Humanities without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellow
Jacqueline Tackett, a graduate student in German Studies has received a 2021 National Humanities without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellowship (link) after having been selected as Cornell’s candidate for the national Humanities Without Walls competition in a nomination process conducted through the Society for the Humanities (...
Leslie Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, awarded "Prize of the Association for Intercultural German Studies"
Germany’s Association for Intercultural German Studies (Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik e.V.) announced in December 2020 that Professor Leslie A. Adelson of Cornell University has been awarded the Prize of the Association for Intercultural German Studies for Experienced Scholars 2019. She is one of two senior scholars to be selected...
Franz Peter Hugdahl Memorial Awards in German Studies
Franz Peter Hugdahl (1968-2013) was a valued member of the German Studies community at Cornell University, with primary interests in 20th-century German literature, radio, film, and intellectual history, who cared deeply about his fellow students at all levels and about educational opportunities to study German language, literature, culture, and...
Hannah Miller, Ph.D. ’17, returns to Cornell as Managing Editor of diacritics
Dr. Hannah Miller, who received her Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell University in 2017, has recently accepted the position of Managing Editor of the renowned theory journal diacritics here at Cornell. After finishing her dissertation, Dr. Miller taught at Hunter College, NYU, and Drew University in New York City and then held a position as...
Ari Linden, Ph.D. ’13, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at University of Kansas; Published First Book in May
Ari Linden, who received his Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell in 2013, has recently been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Kansas, where he has been teaching in the German Department since his degree, first as Visiting Assistant Professor and then as Assistant Professor.His first book, Karl Kraus and the...
Carl Gelderloos, Ph.D. ’14, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure; First Book receives Honorable Mention for DAAD/GSA Book Prize
Carl Gelderloos, who received his Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell in 2014 and started teaching the same year as Assistant Professor in the Department of German and Russian Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY), was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure this last September.His first book Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar...