Annual Report 2017-2019
From Our Director
The last two years have been busy, transformative, and inspiring for the Barnard Center for Research on Women. In spring 2018, Professor Tina Campt passed the directorship baton to me, after three exceptionally creative and productive years at the helm. Later that summer, BCRW moved out of Barnard Hall, our home for forty years, into our expanded offices on the sixth floor of the newly opened Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at the heart of the Barnard campus. And then, in the fall, we welcomed the second cohort of the newly formed Social Justice Institute. Amidst these changes, what has remained constant is our commitment to fostering collaborations between critical feminist scholarship and activism.
We have also been proud of long-term relationships we have built with academic departments and other centers in the college and university, as well as with international colleagues, and community organizations and activists working in New York City and beyond. These collaborations have manifested in conferences, convenings, scholarship, collaborations, and more.
Of course, none of our work would be possible without the generosity of our supporters. As we look ahead to our fiftieth anniversary in 2020-2021, we hope you will join us in celebrating the work that has brought us here, and supporting the work that is to come. To make your gift today, visit bcrw.barnard.edu/fifty, or contact us for more information and ways to give.
Thank you for celebrating our past and supporting our future.
With appreciation,
Elizabeth Castelli, BCRW Director
ABOUT BCRW
STUDY – COLLABORATION – REFLECTION – ACTION
The Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) brings scholars and activists together through its working groups, public events, publications, and multimedia projects to advance intersectional social justice feminist analyses and to promote social transformation. BCRW is committed to vibrant and engaged research, pedagogy, art, and activism, supporting the work of scholars and activists to create new knowledge and to challenge and refine how we understand the world around us. Since its founding in 1971, the BCRW has cultivated collaborative and accountable relationships with community organizations, activists, and cultural workers in New York City, across the US, and transnationally. From our signature annual Scholar and Feminist Conference to our peer-reviewed journal S&F Online, our unique collection of feminist social movement ephemera (housed in the Barnard College Archives) and constantly expanding video archive, and the recently inaugurated Social Justice Institute, BCRW remains committed to critical feminist engagement with the academy and the world.