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BCRW @ 50

On the occasion of BCRW’s 50th anniversary, Eve Marie Kausch (BC 18, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow), and Alex Volgyesi (BC 22, BCRW Research Assistant) embarked on a months-long research and writing project to document BCRW’s history in the context of Barnard College, the emergence of women’s studies and ethnic studies as disciplines and women’s resource centers as institutions, and in broader social movements for gender and sexual liberation, anti-racism and labor and working-class movements. View the project on Scalar.

Project Contributors

Elizabeth Castelli (BCRW Director)
Olivia Cummings (BCRW Program and Communications Manager)
Hope Dector (BCRW Creative Director)
Asha Futterman (BC 21, Research Assistant)
Tapiwa Gambura (BC 24, Research Assistant)
Em He (BC 21, Research Assistant)
Eve Marie Kausch (BC ’18, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow)
Sophie Kreitzberg (BC 19, Research Assistant)
Kayla LeGrand (BC 22, Research Assistant)
Tami Navarro (BCRW Associate Director)
Cara Page (BCRW Activist-in-Residence)
Pamela Phillips (BCRW Senior Program Assistant)
Alex Volgyesi (BC 22, Research Assistant)

We would like to extend a special thanks to Martha Tenney and Barnard Archives student staff, as well as Alicia Peaker, Taylor Faires ’19, and Ana Lam ’20 from the Digital Humanities Center for their support throughout the creation of this project.

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