# Corey Ryan Earle
**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/corey-ryan-earle
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/faculty
## Visiting Lecturer
### Overview
Corey Ryan Earle specializes in the history of Cornell University and Tompkins County, serving as a resource for departments and organizations across campus while working in Alumni Affairs & Development. Since 2011, he has taught AMST 2001: The First American University on the history of Cornell. His research interests include the impact of history and traditions in building community and sense of belonging, as well as how higher education institutions communicate their story and engage with their past, and he has written about the topic for *The Chronicle of Higher Education*. Corey previously served as board president of The History Center in Tompkins County.
### Publications
Earle, Corey Ryan. "[Why a College Should Teach Its Own History.](https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-a-college-should-teach-its-own-history/)" *The Chronicle of Higher Education*, 20 July 2016.
## In the news
- [CAU Summer Courses: From wine pairings to town-gown history](/news/cau-summer-courses-wine-pairings-town-gown-history)
- [In Praise of Sage Chapel, East Hill’s beloved house of worship](/news/praise-sage-chapel-east-hills-beloved-house-worship)
- [TCAM brunch highlight’s women’s history at Cornell](/news/tcam-brunch-highlights-womens-history-cornell)
- [Ticket stubs & COVID tests: 2020s Big Red life, in scrapbooks](/news/ticket-stubs-covid-tests-2020s-big-red-life-scrapbooks)
- [The cascading effect of a 19th-century professorship](https://giving.cornell.edu/story/the-cascading-effect-of-a-19th-century-professorship/)
- [New Book Chronicles Cornell’s International Impact](https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/earle-beyond-borders/)
- [Campus time capsules are blasts from the past](https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/time-capsules/)
- [‘March Madness’ Contest Will Crown the Top Fictional Alum](/news/march-madness-contest-will-crown-top-fictional-alum)
## Courses - Spring 2026
- [AMST 2001 : The First American University](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/AMST/2001)