Milstein Program scholars enroll in specialized courses during their time at Cornell including a First-Year Advising Seminar, a First-Year Project, and the MStudio speaker series, allowing for cohort-bonding, faculty and graduate student mentorship, and opportunities to engage in advanced research at the intersection of technology and the humanities.
Fall 2025
AMST 3418/ANTHR 3418/ANTHR 6418 Environmental Justice Studio
Chloe Ahmann
3 credits
R 2-4:30pm
Open to both undergraduate students and graduate students.
South Baltimore is a multiracial, working-class community where residents live amid toxic infrastructures of all kinds. For years, they have worked with academic allies to study these impositions and organize for environmental justice. In this cross-institutional engaged learning course, students at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University will work together and alongside community partners in the city to create multimedia resources to support these efforts. Together, we will research, write, and produce a four-part video series about the racialized history of waste management in Baltimore.
ENGL 2707 Let Me Count the Ways: Poetry and Mathematics
Gregory Londe
4 credits
MW 2:55-4:10pm
Homer and Euclid, Stein and Einstein, manifestos and manifolds, negative capability and imaginary numbers. This seminar exists somewhere in the ampersand between Arts & Sciences and will concern the study of numbers, poetic and otherwise. We will consider poets from a range of global traditions as theorists and makers of numerical patterns, and explore mathematical texts for their ludic and literate foundations. With help from diverse ethno-mathematical traditions and contemporary literary/number theorists, we will study, for example, quirky verse constructed around the Fibonacci sequence but also, and more crucially, we will learn how to count on one another as readers.
