Klarman Hall

Julia Jong Haines

Dr. Julia Jong Haines is an anthropological and historical archaeologist whose research focuses on the intersection of inequality, community identities, and landscapes. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and recently completed a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Comparative Archaeology. Her research examines the historical changes to the identities and political ecologies of enslaved and indentured plantation laborers and communities on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius from the 18th through the mid-20th century—a time when the island was besieged by sugar cane monocropping, deforestation, and village/urban development. In collaboration with Mauritian communities, local environmental and cultural resource managers, and researchers Dr. Haines also is dedicated to integrating archeological research into ongoing public history programs and supporting community-centered heritage projects. As a teacher, Dr. Haines engages students with digital methods, and the materials and landscapes of the past, particularly to broaden their understanding of the modern origins of power and inequality. She has taught a range of courses on the archaeology and anthropology of slavery and indenture, healing and disease, and gender and sexuality. In all her courses she emphasizes the politics of heritage and encourages students to confront the violent colonial roots of anthropology and archaeology, and grapple with contemporary ethical issues around conducting research. She has published articles on her research in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, and Journal of African Diaspora archaeology and Heritage and is editing a volume on historical archaeology (U Florida Press)

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Klarman Hall

Scott Sorrell

Scott Sorrell is the Knight Institute Outreach Coordinator and a Visiting Lecturer in the Writing Workshop. As a trained anthropologist, he draws on his experience of ethnographic writing to teach students how to develop a regular writing practice that can help them hone critical thinking skills and become more comfortable translating their ideas into academic writing. By emphasizing writing as a cross-disciplinary tool for both thinking and learning, his teaching guides students as they develop elements of voice and style beyond disciplinary boundaries that often separate different genres of writing across the university. As Outreach Coordinator, he is excited to work with other faculty, departments,and programs to grow a more robust culture of writing practice and mutual support at Cornell.

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Scale and gavel on a desk

Migrations initiative wins $5M Mellon grant for racial justice

Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, has won a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative that will bring together scholars across the university and beyond to study the links between racism, dispossession and migration.

McGraw Hall

Archaeology of Liberation Position Announced

Cornell University Department of Anthropology invites applications for an assistant or associate professor in the archaeology of liberation, its promises, possibilities, intricacies and illusions.

Klarman Hall

Paul Kohlbry

I am an anthropologist who studies agrarian life.My research brings together critical agrarian studies, political ecology, and legal anthropology.In my current book project, I explore the struggles of rural Palestinians against settler colonial dispossession and the dissolution of peasant agriculture. I study how people in the highlands of Palestine combine cooperation, mutual aid, and private ownership into a theory and practice of anti-colonial commoning. The book engages with marginalized traditions of agrarian anti-colonialism and vernacular critiques of privatization to consider why ownership is inseparable from hopes for a good life in rural places today.

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Two ironworkers on top of a beam

Native ironworkers’ tradition continues on North Campus

<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> For six generations, Mohawk ironworkers have “walked the steel.” </p> <p> Indigenous people began ironworking in the 19th century, when they were hired to build railroad bridges in Canada. They helped craft the New York City skyline, working on projects including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the World Trade Center. </p></div></div>

hospital operating room

A&S students compete in December business competitions

<p> A total of 17 entrepreneurial students from the College of Arts & Sciences were part of teams who shared plans for new businesses in two online December events — the Big Idea Competition and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D9sP-BfAGk&feature=youtu.be">eLab Early Stage Pitch event</a>.</p>

McGraw Tower in spring

New curriculum requirements bring host of new courses to A&S

As course enrollment opens up this week, students in the College of Arts & Sciences have access to dozens of new courses for spring 2021, thanks in part to the College’s new curriculum, which took effect this fall for students in the class of 2024.

Among several people in a tent, a woman in red traditional clothing faces three officials in white shirts and black trousers, sitting on a couch

Creating ‘political economy of hope’ at Pakistan-India border

When politicians get close to constituents, either physically or digitally, they manage expectations and offer assurances to constituents. But they also expose themselves to scrutiny, giving people the chance to see beyond the performance into imperfect government workings.

People march with colorful signs

Ahmann co-edits journal issue on ‘late industrialism’

<p> The term “late industrialism” has become synonymous with collapse: breakdown, pollution, waste and disappointment left behind by failing or exploitive systems.</p><p> But the “late” in “late industrial” also carries radical potential, according to <a href="https://anthropology.cornell.edu/chloe-ahmann">Chloe Ahmann</a>, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>

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