New name: A $2M gift from the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts will rename the Cornell University Concert Series and allow it to continue its efforts to bring world-class musicians to campus. CornellArts&Sciences CornellPMA news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…

Rejoice Abutsa, a Ph.D. candidate in PMA, is the winner of a 2024 Gertrude Spencer Prize. She is awarded this prize for her joint work with student Itunu Adejare, called "Igwebuike: The Idea of Sisterhood and Women's Narratives in Nollywood.” Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-phd-c…

Parks and Recs creators used Jonathan Joss's character with a "witty kind of self awareness," CornellPMA professor Samantha Sheppard tells BBC after the actor's death. "I think it did pave the way for other kinds of indigenous storytelling to happen." bbc.com/news/articles/…

PMA Professor Nick Salvato has been appointed the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Liberal Studies by the Board of Trustees. “I feel incredibly honored to be recognized as a distinguished member of our faculty,” said Salvato. Read the full story: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-profe…

The contribution is only the latest in a series of gifts from the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation to Cornell, gifts that have funded enhancements to CornellPMA, the Department of Music, and the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. as.cornell.edu/news/gift-crea…

PMA Ph.D. Candidate Isabel Padilla Carlo has received a Caribbean Graduate Research Grant through Cornell’s Einaudi Center for International Studies. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-phd-c…

This fall, PMA Alum Victoria Pihl Sørensen ‘25 will be joining the University of Colorado Boulder as Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Media Studies. Read the full story: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-alum-…

PMA Associate Professor Beth F. Milles’ play "Heading into Night" will be embarking on a European tour, and will participate on behalf of the play in the Walking the Talk for Dementia conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-assoc…

PMA Associate Professor Beth F. Milles’ has been invited to participate in the Tofte Lake Center Residency in Ely, Minnesota in June to collaborate with playwright Carson Kreitzer on a new work entitled "TRASH: A circumnavigation." Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-assoc…

PMA Ph.D. Student Isabel Padilla Carlo has written a chapter for the anthology Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire. Her chapter is titled “Léeme la cuerpa: Queer Laziness and the Body Politics of El perreo combativo." Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-phd-s…

Dominique Thorne ’19, a Human Development major who performed in theatrical productions at PMA, is set to star as Riri Williams in the new Marvel TV series “Ironheart.” Read the full story by Beth Saulnier in Cornellians: alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/th…

This fall, PMA Alum Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz ‘22 will be joining Hobart and William Smith Colleges as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectional Justice. Read the full story: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-alum-…

PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz was selected for a residency at The MilkBar, an experimental arts center in Richmond, California. Aldape Muñoz was in residence from June 28 to July 7. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-assis…

Ph.D. candidate Jessie Taieun Yoon has published an article in Feral Feminisms’ Journal, titled “Quietly Excessive: The Tense Interplay of Aesthetic Excess and Affective Absence in Representations of Asian Diasporic Femininities.” Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/phd-candi…

PMA Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo has been selected for a 2025/2026 Faculty Fellowship in Engaged Learning at Cornell University, on behalf of the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Read the full story: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-assis…

PMA Ph.D. Alum Megan Shea ’09 has written a new book called Tragic Resistance: Feminist Agency in Performance, published by Routledge in January. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-phd-a…

PMA Ph.D. Alum Megan Shea ’09 has written a new book called Tragic Resistance: Feminist Agency in Performance, published by Routledge in January. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-phd-a…

“The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner represents a significant cultural loss for the industry and Black audiences, in particular,” CornellPMA professor Samantha Sheppard tells CNN. cnn.com/2025/07/22/ent…

PMA Professor David Feldshuh taught eighty executives from national food and distribution companies in his “Leadership Presence: Enjoying the Performance” workshop. Read the full story: pma.cornell.edu/news/pma-profe…

Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo had the distinct honor of engaging in creative research and development as a member of the June retreat cohort at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, New York. Read more: pma.cornell.edu/news/assistant…