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

For this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture, join Mizue Aizeki (Executive Director, Collaborative Research Center for Resilience), and Make the Road New York’s Luba Cortés (Civil Rights and Immigration Lead Organizer) and Natalia Aristizabal

October 6, 2026 • 6:30 pm

Surveillance Tech and the Fight for Immigrant Justice

Mizue Aizeki, Luba Cortés, and Natalia Aristizabal, moderated by Miriam Ticktin

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 Josiah Keys

For half of a century, The Scholar and Feminist Conference has provided a mutually activating space for scholars, activists, and artists to confront the most pressing issues at any given moment. Defining scholarship as for

February 27–28, 2026

The Scholar and Feminist: Fifty Years of Meeting the Moment

Publications

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

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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

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Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma

Documenting 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,

Archival exhibit curated by Eve Marie Kausch and Alex Volgyesi

BCRW @ 50

Eve Marie Kausch and Alex Volgyesi

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.