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

Why AI Needs Feminism brings together feminist critical technologists Lauren Klein (Emory University) and Meredith Broussard (NYU) with Barnard’s Saima Akhtar (Vagelos Computational Science Center) and Gabrielle Gutierrez (Neuroscience) to examine how algorithmic surveillance is

April 29, 2026 • 6:30 pm

Why AI Needs Feminism: From Campus Surveillance to Global Conflicts

Meredith Broussard and Lauren Klein

For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including the movement for queer and trans liberation. Working in collaboration with

April 8, 2026 • 6:30 pm

We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories

Steven Watson and Tourmaline

Student-led symposium exploring universities’ roles in society, examining social inequality, segregation, and education through critical research, archives, and activism, connecting campus histories with broader political structures.

March 27, 2026 • 6:00 pm

The City and the University: A Symposium

Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton

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

Barnard-Columbia Student Organizing Oral History Project

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

About The Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study (Gordon Institute) at Teachers College