The “Mechanema” book series, published by Cornell University Press, is acknowledging the key support of the Department of Romance studies and of the French Studies Program (2025–).

The Visual Art and Bonobo pilot experiment, led by Laurent Dubreuil  with Cathy Caruth and Jared Taglialatela, is a collaboration between the Ape Initiative in Des Moines and researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. Additional funding was provided by the Nexus Scholars Program. (2023–).

The project on the Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity led by Imane Terhmina and Laurent Dubreuil was funded by the French Embassy in the United States, the Cornell French Studies Program and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (2023-25).

The “Mission O,”  a collaborative project offering a nomadic reflection on the vegetal world in Homer’s Odyssey, was developed by Laurent Derobert and Laurent Dubreuil. This artistic and scientific endeavor was supported by the Art gallery Hus in Montmartre and by the Mondes nouveaux fund overseen by the French Ministry of Culture (2020-23). The associated art project “Odyssea—An American Germination,” led by Dubreuil and Derobert, is made possible by a grant of the Mellon Foundation through the Rural Humanities Initiative at Cornell, with the additional support of the French Studies Program, Hus, and the Soil Factory. (2024-25).

The Humanities and AI working group at Cornell,  led by Laurent Dubreuil and Paul Fleming, was made possible by the Society for the Humanities, the French Studies Program and the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts and Sciences (2023-24).

The AI and Poetry Research project led by Morten Christiansen and Laurent Dubreuil was funded by a New Frontiers grant from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University (2021-24).

Laurent Dubreuil is personally acknowledging the major financial support from the Mellon Foundation (2009-15), the Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (2018-19), and the New Frontiers Program in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell (2023).

Current and past sponsors for specific events at Cornell University include the Department of Romance Studies (Berkowitz fund), the French Studies Program, the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the Society for the Humanities, the Cognitive Science Program, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Psychology, the Messenger Lectures, the Dean’s Office of the College of of Arts and Sciences, the Rhodes Chair of Humane Letters.

Additional funding for co-sponsored activities came from the French Embassy in the United States, and the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures at Tsinghua University.