GEMS-AC - Global Early Modern Studies

The Certificate Program in Global Early Modern Studies is designed to enable students pursuing degrees offered at The Graduate Center interested in any aspect of the Renaissance/Early Modern period (c.1350–c.1700) to expand their studies in an interdisciplinary way. The program’s main goals are to provide students with the opportunity (1) to acquire innovative methods of cross-disciplinary research, including the techniques of early modern cultural analysis, that will enhance both their scholarship and teaching; (2) to study with faculty outside their home discipline; and (3) to acquire a Certificate in Global Early Modern Studies as a credential. Participating programs include Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, History, Music, Philosophy, and Theatre.

Resources for Research and Training

New York is especially suited to serve students interested in Global Early Modern Studies. In addition to the Mina Rees Library of The Graduate Center and the libraries of the CUNY campuses, CUNY graduate students have access to a broad range of resources including the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection and Library, the Hispanic Society of America, the American Numismatic Society, the Academy of Medicine Library, and the libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary. The certificate program in Global Early Modern Studies is an affiliate member of the Renaissance Society of America, which now has its offices at The Graduate Cen- ter. As a member of the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. (and, through it, of the Newberry Library in Chicago), The Graduate Center offers advanced students eligibility for funded participation in Folger Institute seminars and conferences. The Graduate Center hosts a Shakespeare Institute and the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, and the Certificate Program sponsors a Renaissance Colloquium. Visiting scholars give talks regularly at the program’s Renaissance Colloquium, and students regularly present portions of their work in progress at an Early Modern Dissertation Colloquium.