Stories
Welcome to our digital exhibition of Any Person, Many Stories: Histories of Exclusion and Inclusion at Cornell. The stories are sketches, biographies, podcasts, interviews, and videos. The stories were created by students, staff, instructors, alumni, and partners of Cornell University, to document, interpret, and make meaning of Cornell’s histories.
They are made from memories, analysis, observation, and conversation, told with artifacts from the archives, from social media photo galleries, from people’s attics and phones. We hope you can trace a bit of your own institutional “ancestry” through those who fought for a more inclusive Cornell in decades past, while you consider the ever urgent now and your own role in making change.
From Ladies’ Home Journal to Title IX: Women Graduate Students at Cornell, 1958-1962
Mary Frann (Somers) Heidhues, PhD ’65 and Ruth (Miskovsky) Mahr, PhD ’66
Cornell and the Morrill Act: 120 Years of Land Acquisition
Jacobi Kandel, Maggie Lam, and Zelazzie Zepeda
“The Pride of Our Hearts” A Short Story of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Rev. Dr. Kenneth I. Clarke, Sr.
Southeast Asian languages at Cornell
Lauren Kelly, Bridgit Haggerty, Lucia Pannunzio, and Lamia Simrin
Embrace the Spectrum: Creation of Queer Inclusive Housing at Cornell
Taylor Bouraad, Julianna Castlegrant, Megan Cowart, Jillian Creighton, Uma Jhaveri, Gabrielle Schnorbus, Leanna Skeete, Michelle Song, Diego Virtue, Daniela Rojas Wise, and Emma Wu
Fighting for more than a MRS degree: Contraception, abortion, and equal access to education
Xiyu Mei and Juno Salazar Parreñas
A look at the marginalization of Cornell women through the lens of sexual assault
Christina Gioioso, Lauren Reeves, Adriana Marti, Kayla Riggs
How “Cornell Plantations” became the “Cornell Botanic Gardens”
Melina Ivanchikova and Rob Vanderlan, ’88
