Barnard Center for Research on Women – Bringing together feminist scholars and activists for research, collaboration, and work towards 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.

Events

Join us for an intergenerational conversation in celebration of Maja Horn’s Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2025).

November 10, 2026 • 6:00 pm

Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

Maja Horn, Carlos U. Decena, Rosamond S. King, Mariley Melo, and Frances Negrón-Muntaner

December 2, 2026 • 6:00 pm

Campus Sexual Violence: Rethinking Power, Prevention, and Accountability

Jennifer S. Hirsch and Camila Pelsinger Villalba, moderated by Elizabeth Bernstein

February 27, 2027 • 9:30 am

Feminist Futures Beyond AI: Refusing Inevitability

Publications

Contributors include Rayya Badran, Elena L. Cohen, Olani Ewunnet, Uzma Falak, KMRU, Rebecca Lentjes, Nicole L’Huillier, Siv B. Lie, and Shana L. Redmond

The Scholar and Feminist Online 22.1

Counterlistenings: Sound, Power, Resistance

María Edurne Zuazu and Gascia Ouzounian

Contributors include Rachel Brown, Jennifer N. Fish, Gwendolyn Fowler, Michelle E. Grier, Vivianne Guevara, Lisa Jahn, Joyce McMillan, Beverley Mullings, Linda Oalican, Riya Ortiz, Miriam Ticktin, Alissa Trotz, Carmen Winant

The Scholar and Feminist Online 21.2

Troubling Care

Premilla Nadasen and Alex Pittman

Guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma gather contributions that examine how gendered, racialized, and classed forms of life are both sustained and constrained by carceral systems, and how abolitionist praxis reimagines and rebuilds the

The Scholar and Feminist Online 21.1

Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma

Projects

This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory

Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction

The Africana Routes, Africana Migrations faculty research group interrogates the colonial and extractive roots of traditional international education models and works to reconstruct them through the lens of Africana Studies and transnational feminist solidarity. Rooted

Africana Routes, Africana Migrations

A project engaging feminist literature and research in the Caribbean and its diaspora.