Allegories of Format: A Media History of Gottfried Keller's Unlikely Oeuvre

Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). Malika Maskarinec understands format as the organization of a media object's relationship to a world of objects and persons; format orders a text's contents or, in the case of literature, what it represents. Maskarinec focuses on three formats of growing prominence in nineteenth-century media culture: the collected-works edition, the document, and the periodical. The analysis demonstrates that different fictional worlds, characters, and plots in Keller's literary output allegorize the problems that specific print and paper formats pose to literary ideals of literature as an art form and to ideals of creative authorship. As Allegories of Format shows, attending to format allows for false antitheses inherited from the nineteenth century to be dismantled—between high and trivial literature, between the singular artwork and mass media products, and between creative literary works and the supposedly uncreative writing practices of office work

Annual Report FY 2024-2025

2024-2025 Annual Report published by the staff of the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration

Contesting Migrant Precarity in the Global South? Informal Labor Markets, High-Risk Coping Strategies, and Low-Income Filipino Migrants in the United Arab Emirates

Despite extensive host state labor reforms, scholars contend that temporary labor migrants are systematically remain vulnerable to economic precarity under the Gulf states’ kafala sponsorship system. Using the case of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this article posits that, despite legal and financial sanctions, low-income migrants navigate their transnational economic precarity status by strategically engaging with host country informal labor markets through three high-risk coping strategies: accumulating debt, subleasing and enterprising. Ultimately, the study highlights low-income migrants navigate and co-produce precarity while simultaneously weaponizing informal labor markets as a (marginal yet) central "site" of everyday contestation within restrictive migration system in the Global South

Best Practices for Enabling Internal Talent Mobility Across a Large firm with Multiple Business Units

Internal talent mobility is a central measure of how effectively organizations redeploy existing employees to critical roles across business units. Despite its strategic importance, there is no single, industry-standard approach, and many companies face obstacles such as network-based bias, siloed succession planning, limited skills, visibility, and managerial resistance. Research indicates that integrating accountability metrics, structured rotational programs, and enabling technologies yields the strongest results in promoting cross-unit movement. This report synthesizes core challenges, presents a framework of best practices, and delivers actionable recommendations to strengthen leadership mobility at scale

What Should HR do to Help Employees get Ready for GenAI in the Workplace?

As GenAI continues to evolve, it introduces more than just new technology. It represents a fundamental shift in how work is organized, how skills are developed, and how decisions are made. HR leaders are uniquely positioned to manage this transformation. They must ensure employees are prepared, supported, and guided through this change in a way that aligns with business goals and ethical standards. This summary explores what HR should be doing to prepare employees and the strategic approaches it can use to lead GenAI adoption effectively

Mobility, Madness, Modernity: A Hauntology of Insides and Outsides

Delivered as the keynote address of the 27th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference on March 7, 2025

Resisting in Place: Imagining Disaster Recovery as Long-Term Community Life in Post 3.11 Fukushima

This paper explores how storytelling, sacred ritual, and place-based care shape long-term recovery in Namie and Ishinomaki, Japan, after the 3.11 Triple Disaster. Through ethnographic interviews, field visits, and attention to personal and cultural narratives, the paper examines how residents make sense of loss, not only by rebuilding physically, but by tending to memory and meaning. In Namie, a Buddhist priest and his wife restore their temple while caring for a landscape altered by radiation and displacement. In Ishinomaki, a museum worker anchors her grief in the shared memory of a devastated town. These stories are not simply anecdotes, they are forms of representation that carry emotional truth, offer continuity, and shape the social fabric of recovery. By foregrounding everyday acts of care and narrative practice, this paper suggests that recovery unfolds not only through policy and infrastructure, but through the way people tell, share, and live their stories. It invites planners and scholars to take seriously the representational labor that sustains communities long after the disaster has faded from headlines

Re-evaluating nutrition models to predict calf growth

Written for and presented during 2025 Cornell Nutrition Conferenc

Compound data for User-Friendly, Living Coordination-Insertion Polymerizations with Broad Functional Group Tolerance

Please cite as: Hsu, J. H.; Haynes, C. A.; Macbeth, A. J.; Girbau, R.; Borowski, J. E.; Reilly, M. A.; Taylor, A. L.; Peltier, C. R.; Birch, C.; Noonan, K. J. T.; Coates, G. W.; Fors, B. P. (2025) Compound data for User-Friendly, Living Coordination-Insertion Polymerizations with Broad Functional Group Tolerance. [Dataset] Cornell University eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/hte0-qx36These files contain data supporting all results reported in Hsu et. al. User-Friendly, Living Coordination-Insertion Polymerizations with Broad Functional Group Tolerance. In Hsu et. al. we found: The development of new user-friendly polymerizations for the synthesis of advanced functional materials has the ability to significantly accelerate discovery in materials science. However, it is often difficult to develop robust methodologies that overcome the sensitivities of many polymerization types and enable well-controlled polymerizations of diverse functional monomers. Herein, we introduce (Ad3P)Pd(Me)SbF6 as a bench-stable, single-component catalyst that is capable of living coordination-insertion polymerization of substituted norbornenes conducted open to air, at room temperature, and with broad tolerance to over 30 different functional groups. Our studies revealed that the electron-donating phosphine ligand, tri(1- adamantyl)phosphine (Ad3P), and a silver salt activating species were pivotal for maintaining well-controlled polymerizations in the presence of coordinating functionalities. We demonstrated the livingness of this catalytic system, and generated block copolymers, ultra-high molecular weight polymers, and functional polymers from a range of substituted norbornenes. Overall, this work enables coordination-insertion polymerization as a user-friendly technique for the direct synthesis of advanced functional materials.This work was supported by the Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES), an Energy Frontier Research Center program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Grant DE-SC0019445. This work made use of the Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Facilities that are supported by the NSF MRSEC program (DMR1719875), and the NMR facility, which is supported, in part, by the NSF through MRI award CHE-1531632