Overview

Shirley Samuels is the Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department. She is working on a book called "Haunted by the Civil War." She teaches at Cornell in several departments, including American Studies, English, History of Art and Visual Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her books include Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. (2019), The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (2012), Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 (2012), Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004); Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004); Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996); and The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America (1992). In addition to Cornell, she has taught at Princeton University, Brandeis University, and the University of Delaware. She has held fellowships from The American Council of Learned Societies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Huntington Library.

Research Focus

• American literature and culture
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American fiction
• Feminist criticism
• American studies
• Late 20th-Century Women Writers and Visual Culture
• Narratives of Mobility and Escape in Nineteenth-Century America
• Social and Sexual Constructions of Whiteness, Ethnicity, and Race

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Overview

Dr. Loeckenhoff received her undergraduate degree from the University of Marburg, Germany and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging before joining Cornell University in 2009.

Dr. Loeckenhoff is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Psychological Science. She was recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2011 and received the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from the Gerontological Society of America in 2014. Her efforts in teaching gerontology were honored by a KON Award for Excellence in Advising in 2018 and SUNY Chancellors Awards for Excellence in Teaching (2013) and Faculty Service (2022).

Research Focus

Dr. Loeckenhoff's research focuses on age differences in time horizons, personality, and emotional experience and their influence on mental and physical health across the life span. A central goal is to understand how age groups differ in their approach to health-related choices and to explore ways to optimize such choices across the life span. A second line of research examines life-long trajectories in people's personality traits and social cognition and their relation to health-related behaviors and outcomes. Dr. Loeckenhoff is also interested in cross-cultural differences in aging trajectories. 

Publications

Edited Books

• Ong, A.D., & Löckenhoff, C.E. (Eds.). (2016). Emotion, Aging, and health. American Psychological Association.
• Hess, T., Strough, J., & Löckenhoff, C.E. (Eds.). (2015). Aging and decision making: Empirical and applied perspectives. Elsevier.

Other Publications

See Google Scholar for a complete list of publications.

Overview

D. Mitra Barua holds a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Studies administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. Prior to his affiliation to Cornell in August 2014, he taught (2011-14) South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Department of Religion and Culture, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His academic studies of religion developed in two streams, namely Oriental Studies in Sri Lanka (1994-2000), and then Religious Studies in Canada (2003-2011).

Mitra's PhD dissertation (Wilfrid Laurier University) examined the reconfiguration of Sri Lankan Buddhism in three historical periods: colonial Ceylon, post-colonial Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Buddhist diaspora particularly in Toronto, Canada. He is currently transforming his dissertation into a monograph, provisionally entitled Weaving Ola and Maple Leaves Together: Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto (under a contract to Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo, Canada). Mitra's postdoctoral project examines Buddhism in Bengals (1757-1988) from a perspective of minority religion within the nexus of transnational connections with fellow majority Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Publications

• "Teaching Buddhism to Children: The Evolving Sri Lankan Buddhist Tradition in Multicultural Toronto." In Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms, John Harding, Victory Hori, and Alexander Soucy (eds.), pp. 201-224, Montreal, MQUP, 2014.
• "Temporary Ordination for Character Transformation: A Diasporic Practice with Transnational Connections." In Journal of Global Buddhism Vol. 12 (2011): 51-68.
• "Buddhism for a Multi-cultural Society: Redefining Buddhism for a New Canada-born Generation." In Buddhism Contemporary Studies, edited by Sanath Nanayakkara, and Russell Bowden, 145-185. Colombo: Sri Lankan Association of Buddhist Studies, 2010.

Overview

Mary Jacobus was a Fellow of ady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, from 1971 to 1980. In 1980 she moved to Cornell University, where she held the John Wendell Anderson Chair of English and Women¹s Studies. In 2000 she returned to the UK as Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, where she was also a Professorial Fellow of Churchill College. From 2006 until her retirement, she was Director of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). In 2011-12, she returned to Cornell as M. H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, and the AHRC, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She served on the Academic Committee of Norway's Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009-2015. She has written widely on Romanticism, feminism, and psychoanalysis, as well as visual culture; her most recent books include The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein, Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (2016), and On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement (2022). She is  currently working on a book on forests.

Research Focus

• Women’s studies
• Romanticism
• Feminist criticism and theory
• Continental and British psychoanalysis

Overview

Ross Brann studied at the University of California-Berkeley, the Hebrew University-Jerusalem, New York University, and the American University in Cairo. He has taught at Cornell since 1986 and served nineteen years as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Brann is the author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991) and Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002). He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Brann is also the editor of four volumes and author of essays on the intersection of medieval Jewish and Islamic cultures. In 2019 he completed Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). In 2007 Brann was appointed Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and in June 2010 he stepped down as the faculty co-chair of the West Campus House System Council after six years of service as the founding Alice Cook House Professor-Dean. He recently completed Moses Maimonides: A  Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) which will appear later in 2024. In 2023 The Medieval Academy of America elected Ross as a Fellow.

Courses Taught

• History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Jews and the Classical Age of Islam
• Judeo-Arabic
• Theory and Method in Near Eastern Studies
• Zionism and its Discontents
• Maimonides
• Islamic Spain: Culture and Society
• The Middle East in the News
• Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad from Antiquity to Present

Research Focus

Current Research

• “Integrating the study of minorities and the majority in the Arabic-speaking sphere of classical Islam” for submission to “Speculations,” the Centennial Issue of Speculum
• Intellectual enlightenment, spiritual repose, and aggressive rage: a fresh examination of “‘Aṭeh hod w^e-‘adeh l^evash g^e’onim” by Solomon ibn Gabirol

Publications

• Moses Maimonides: A  Very Short Introduction (in press, Oxford University Press, 2024)
• Iberian Moorings: al-Andalus and Sefard and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) 240 pp.
• “Hebrew Poetics, and Linguistic Thought,” to appear in The Cambridge History of Rhetoric (General Editors, Rita Copeland and Peter Mack)
• “Medieval Jewish Translingualism,” in The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism (2021), ed. Natasha Lvovitch and Steven G. Kellman, pp.85-96
• “Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition,” Routledge Companion to Arabic Poetry, ed.
  Huda Fakhreddine and Suzanne Stetkevych (London: Routledge, 2023), 108-130.
• Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 208 pp. 
• The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 228 pp. [recipient of the 1992 Maurice Amado Foundation National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies]
• [Ed. with Adam Sutcliffe] Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) 237 pp.
• “Arabic Alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew Literature in Meta-Critical Perspective,” The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity and Diversity, ed. E Michael Gerli (Routledge, 2021), 363-374
• "An Aramaic Writ from Ramla (1056): A Translation and Genizah Study" in Text, Tradition and the History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Lawrence Schiffman Festschrift), ed. Stuart Miller (Brill, 2020), 245-253.
• “Jewish Perceptions of and Attitudes towards Muslims,” in Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 5 [Jews and Judaism in the Islamic World, Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries], ed. Philip Lieberman (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 64-91.
• “The Moors?” Medieval Encounters 15 (2009): 307-318.
• “He Said, She Said: Re-inscribing the Andalusi Arabic Love Lyric,” in Raymond P. Scheindlin Festschrift, ed. M. Rand and J. Decter (Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007), 7-15.
•  “Rule (’Amīnūkāl)”], Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 5 (2013): 106-110.
• "Andalusi "Exceptionalism"," in A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, ed. Karla Mallette and Suzanne Akbari (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013) 119-134.

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Overview

Joe Lerangis has appeared as a conductor and tenor both internationally and across the United States. Joe has worked as Director of Choral Activities at Colgate University where they reestablished the choral program after its Covid dormancy, Director of Music at Spiritus Christi church in Rochester, NY, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata. Joe has studied choral conducting with William Weinert, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, and André J. Thomas, and orchestral conducting with Donald Schleicher, Mark Gibson, Brad Lubman, Larry Rachleff, and Carl St. Clair. Previously, Joe spent several years in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where they completed a Fulbright fellowship and founded and developed the first music department in a general education secondary school in Mongolia to offer youth choir, orchestra, and band programs. In 2017, they reached the final round of Mongolia’s nationally televised pop idol competition, winning the Judge’s Choice Award and an award from the Mongolian Ministry of Culture. While at Yale, Joe received both the Robert Shaw Prize in Conducting and the Friedmann Thesis Prize for outstanding work for their doctoral dissertation, “Hybridized Urtyn Duu and the Making of a Mongolian Choral Idiom in the Works of Byambasurengiin Sharav.” They hold previous degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Nanjing University, Kenyon College, and most proudly, the Bronx High School of Science.

In the news

• Concert celebrates International Women’s Day
• Mongolian music comes to campus
• Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule
• Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15

Overview

Professor Grinstein has been a full time faculty member at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management for 15 years. He is currently serving part time at Johnson as an Adjunct Professor of Finance. Professor Grinstein's research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and corporate governance. Grinstein has been published in several journals, including The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial Intermediation, Review of Finance, and others. His research has been widely cited in major newspapers such as The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Forbes, Time, Washington Post, as well as in Congress hearings. Grinstein is an Associate Editor at Management Science and an Associate Editor at the Financial Review. He is the recipient of the Management Science Distinguished Service Award in 2014, the Best Teacher Award, Cornell Executive MBA Program, in 2013, the Best Paper Award from The Journal of Financial Intermediation in 2006, and the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award from the Southwestern Finance Association in 2005. He is also the recipient of the Clifford H. Whitcomb faculty fellowship in 2004-2005. Between the years 2006-2007 he visited the Securities and Exchange Commission as a visiting academic scholar.

Overview

Siu Sylvia Lee is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She received a B.A. in Biochemistry from Rice University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1999. She received her postdoctoral training at the Department of Molecular Biology of Massachusetts General Hospital & the Department of Genetics of Harvard Medical School, where she was awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She joined the faculty at Cornell in 2003, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2010. She is in the graduate fields of Genetics & Development, Biochemistry, Molecular, & Cell Biology, Comparative Biological Science, and Nutrition. Her research is supported by the National Institute of Aging and the Ellison Medical Foundation.

In the news

• To stay young and disease-free longer

Overview

I am a historian of colonial North America, specializing in the history of indigenous peoples in the Northeast, particularly that of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). I took advantage of my status as a dual citizen of the Canada and the United States to train at what is now Western University in my hometown of London, Ontario, Canada, and completed my doctorate at University of Michigan. My first book, The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701 (2010, reissued in paperback in Canada and the USA in 2014) was published with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. I argue that the extensive spatial mobility engaged in by Haudenosaunee people after their first contact with Europeans represented a geographical expression of Haudenosaunee social, political, and economic priorities. I drew on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, published Haudenosaunee oral traditions, and GIS technology to reconstruct the Haudenosaunee settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that built and sustained it. Many of my article-length publications in journals such as Journal of Early American History, Diplomatic History, William and Mary Quarterly, and Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec are available for consultation at my Academia.eduwebpage. My current research interests include the historical experience of allied Indian nations in the Seven Years' War and American Revolution, the impact of the U.S./Canada border on Native American nations, and contemporary Haudenosaunee nation-building initiatives.

At Cornell I am fortunate to reside in close proximity to the people and places I research and write about, and I have also had the privilege to serve as a legal and historical consultant to several Haudenosaunee communities, including most recently the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and the Oneida Indian Nation. In December 2014 I was honored to be qualified as a recognized Historical Expert in the History and Ethnography of the Iroquois, in Ontario Superior Court.

My teaching at Cornell includes courses on America at War to 1898, Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: An Introduction to Native American History, New World Encounters, the American Revolution (coming Fall 2016) and seminars on Iroquois History, the Seven Years' War, and Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in North American History. In 2011-12 I was a recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. In addition to my work on campus I am frequently on the road speaking to secondary educators, town historians, and the general public in venues such as Fort Ticonderoga's National Endowment for the Humanities "Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshops," Johnson Hall State Historic Site, the Ontario County Historical Society, and the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown.

Research Focus

• Native American (esp. Iroquois) 
• Early American History
• Historical Geography
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social

Publications

MONOGRAPH

The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701.  Michigan State University Press, 2010; paperback edition, University of Manitoba Press, 2014.

Recognition and Honors

Honorable Mention, 2010 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Association of American Publishers.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

"The Meaning of Kaswentha and the Two Row Wampum Belt in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) History: Can Indigenous Oral Tradition be Reconciled with the Documentary Record?" Journal of Early American History 3 (2013): 82-109.

"The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empires: Iroquois and Acadians between the British and French in North America, 1744-60."  (coauthored with Mark P. Robison) Diplomatic History 31 (2007): 167-206.

"After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North American Campaigns, 1676-1760." William and Mary Quarterly 64 (2007): 39-82.

"'L'Arbre de Paix': Eighteenth Century Franco-Iroquois Relations." French Colonial History 4 (2003): 63-80.

"Rethinking Penn's Treaty With the Indians: Benjamin West and the Legacy of Native-Settler Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 19 (Spring 2002): 38-44.

"Neutralité active des Iroquois durant la guerre de la Succession d'Austriche, 1744-1748 [The Active Neutrality of the Iroquois during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-1748]," trans. Michel Lavoie, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 32 (2002): 29-37.

"La politique du deuil: le factionalisme des Onontagués et la mort de Canasatego [The Politics of Mourning: Onondaga Factionalism and the Death of Canasatego]," trans. Françoise Neillon and Jean-Paul Salaün, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 29 (1999): 23-35.

"Pontiac's War: Forging New Links in the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain, 1758-1766."  Ethnohistory 44 (1997): 617-54.

"Treason in the London District during the War of 1812."  London and Middlesex Historian [Ontario] 20 (Autumn 1993): 5-26.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND INVITED ESSAYS

"Separate Vessels: Hudson, the Dutch, and the Iroquois."  In Jaap Jacobs and Louis Roper, eds., The Worlds of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 103-33.

"In the Wake of Cartier: The Indigenous Context of Champlain's Activities in the St. Lawrence Valley and Upper Great Lakes, 1550-1635."  In Nancy Nahra, ed., When the French Were Here…And They're Still Here: Proceedings of the 2009 Champlain Quadricentennial Conference (Burlington, VT: Champlain College, 2010), 87-115.

"'Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh': Reassessing Iroquois Relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755."  In Nancy Rhoden, ed., English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele (Montréal, QC, and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 235-83.

"The Significance of the 'Illegal Fur Trade' to the Eighteenth Century Iroquois."  In Louise Johnston, ed., Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade: Proceedings of the 8th North America Fur Trade Conference, Akwesasne (Ottawa, ON, 2001), 40-47.

"The Iroquois and the Native American Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794." In David C. Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds. The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001), 105-24.

"Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-gûnsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee Patriot."  In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds.  The Human Tradition in Revolutionary America (Wilmington, DE:  Scholarly Resources Press, 2000), 117-37.

"Madame Montour: Cultural Broker on the Eighteenth-Century Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania."  In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds.  The Human Tradition in Colonial America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 1999), 141-59.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND SHORT ESSAYS

"Native Americans," in Mark G. Spencer, ed., Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (2 vols., New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 2: 740-43.

"The Beaver Wars," in Antonio Thomson and Christos Frentzos, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History: Colonial Period to 1877 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 33-41.

"Agriculture." In John Demos, ed.,American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume 2, The Seventeenth Century (New York: MTM Publishing, 2011), 17-23.

"Native American Warfare"; "Pontiac"; "Little Turtle"; "Black Hawk"; "Indian Removal Policy." Entries in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 1735-41, 1749, 1761-64.

"American Indians: British Policies," in Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829 (3 vols., Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), 1: 118-21.

"The Fur Trade." Entry in Peter Eisenstadt et al, eds., The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 614-15.

Contribution to "A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities," ed. Joyce Ann Kievit, American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003): 41-45.

"Pontiac, Chief"; "Quebec Act."  Entries in Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History (2 vols., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2003), 2: 587-89, 605-6.

"Warfare, Indian"; "Wars with Indian Nations, Colonial Era to 1783."  Entries in Dictionary of American History (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002), vol. 8: 390-94, 395-99.

"Conrad Weiser Letters Shed Important New Light on Eighteenth Century Indian Diplomacy."  The Quarto: William L. Clements Library Associates Bulletin 1.6

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Overview

Ivan's work explores the co-constitution of digital technology, race and nation in a context of U.S. empire and his teaching reflects formation in traditions ranging from critical theory to digital media and focuses on creating learning environments based on dialog and community.
 
Iván holds a PhD from the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research project, "Drone Technopolitics: A History of Race and Intrusion on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1948-2016," traces the development of unmanned aerial systems and their uses in the U.S. borderlands. Since May 2016, Chaar-López has been a member of the Precarity Lab at the University of Michigan. In 2015, he won the Digital Studies Fellowship from the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. While in residence he studied the intersections of race and the automation of border control in the United States, post-1965. An article based on this research is forthcoming in American Quarterly.