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 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

Apr 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.

Mar 27, 2026 | 6:00 pm

The City and the University: A Symposium

Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton

For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as “masculine.” Drawing on her own decades of research with autistic women and girls, Neuroscientist Gina

Mar 26, 2026 | 6:00 pm

Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism

Gina Rippon and Rebecca Jordan-Young

Publications

Contributions by Nagihan Akarsel (Jineolojî Academy), Electra B., Azza Basarudin, Loren Cahill. Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, Livia de Souza Vidal, J. D. Harlock, The International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM), Iida Käyhkö,

The Scholar and Feminist Online 20.1

Rage, Struggle, Freedom

Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican

Guest edited by the Editorial Board with contributors Dána-Ain Davis, Virginia R. Dominguez, Ugo F. Edu, Nessette Falu, Sarah Haley, Frances M. Howell, Janet Jakobsen, Kelly Marshall, Devika Maulik, Premilla Nadasen, Miriam Neptune, Cara Page,

The Scholar and Feminist Online 19.2

Reproductive Injustice

The Editorial Board

In this special issue “To Make Visible,” guest editors Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio have curated a selection of essays, videos, interviews, and visual art by women of color on race, performance, embodiment, and aging.

The Scholar and Feminist Online 19.1

To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies

Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio

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