Anthony Halmon

Anthony Halmon: 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken.'

<p><style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->/*--><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style></p><h3>Anthony Halmon</h3><h3>Africana Studies</h3><h3>Chicago, IL</h3><p><strong>How did any of your beliefs or interests change during your time at Cornell?</strong></p>

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Michell Chresfield

Michell Chresfield is an assistant professor of African American history in the Africana Studies and Research Center where her research and teaching focuses on Black and Indigenous histories, the history of science and medicine, and the history of racial formation and identity making in twentieth century America. She received her Bachelor’s degree in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 and a Ph.D from Vanderbilt University in 2016.

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Book Cover Mujeres En Africa

MUJERES EN AFRICA: EDUCACION Y PODER. EL ACCESO A LOS ESTUDIOS SU PERIORES

N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

No es frecuente destacar el importante aporte de las mujeres africanas en las "altas" esferas de la estructura de las sociedades y, menos aún, explicitar su existencia, presencia y potencia en la educación superior con todas sus derivaciones y consecuencias actuales y futuras.

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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.

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The College Welcomes New Faculty for 2022-23

This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.

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Center’s grants seed diverse research in the social sciences

<div> <div> <p> How do perceptions of luck shape views about inequality and redistribution? Could interventions nudge hiring managers to evaluate job candidates blindly, and thus more objectively? Has remote instruction during the pandemic improved student interactions and equity in science labs? </p></div></div>

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Africana studies class produces political leaders podcast

<p> For their final projects, students in Africana Studies professor <a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/carole-boyce-davies">Carole Boyce-Davies</a>’ Black Women and Political Leadership course created a podcast featuring interviews with Black women in politics.</p>

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NYC takes ‘significant, systemic steps’ toward desegregation of schools

<p> Today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major changes to the way the city’s middle and high schools admit their students. Those changes include eliminating all admissions screens for middle schools for at least one year; eliminating a policy that allows some high schools to give students who live nearby first claim at spots in the school; and issuing grants to be used by schools to develop diversity and integration plans.</p>

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Panel: Segregation still ‘in force’ in US schools, neighborhoods

<div> <div> <p> Civil rights legislation and Supreme Court rulings have undone a history of legal racial segregation in America, but schools and neighborhoods remain largely segregated, four Cornell faculty members said during the Nov. 19 webinar, “Racism in America: Education and Housing.” </p></div></div>

Poster shows a black and white photo of Shirley Chisholm with the words “Shirley for President. Unbought and unbossed 1972.”

Africana Studies course explores Black women leaders through podcasts

<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-eb055bcc-7fff-abb7-0cc4-06ed4ae98be4"> When Africana Studies professor<a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/carole-boyce-davies"> Carole Boyce-Davies</a> developed her Black Women and Political Leadership course in 2017, she knew she was expanding into relatively untouched territory. </p>

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