{"id":43,"date":"2011-03-09T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:05:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About The BCRW<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 1971, Barnard students, faculty, and staff founded the Barnard Women\u2019s Center, the first of its kind in the country. BCRW\u2019s founding took place in the midst of feminist, Black freedom, anti-war, and Third World Liberation movements, international student mobilizations, and the parallel creation of Black studies, ethnic studies, and women\u2019s studies programs at universities across the country. For more than fifty years, BCRW has built a bridge between students, scholars, activists, artists, neighbors, and our communities beyond New York through public events, publications, multimedia projects, and working groups.<\/p>

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. From our signature annual Scholar and Feminist Conference to our peer-reviewed journal The Scholar and Feminist Online<\/em>, our unique collection of feminist social movement ephemera housed in the Barnard College Archives and a constantly expanding video archive, and a rich history of collaborations with activists and artists including the Feminist Freedom School and Preserving Trans Histories, BCRW brings scholars and activists together to foment intersectional social justice feminist analyses and promote social transformation.<\/p>

Every semester, students, faculty, and community members can engage with BCRW through public programming and our open-access publications focusing on issues such as abolition and transformative justice; anticolonialism and Black transnational feminism; reproductive justice; labor and economic justice; and more. Students can get involved in the Center through a weekly social hour, the Center\u2019s collaborations with student groups, and paid research assistantships.<\/p>

BCRW is an academic research center governed by the principles of academic freedom. The content of our events and publications does not necessarily reflect the views of Barnard College.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Staff<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rebecca Jordan-Young, Interim Director
Email: ryoung@barnard.edu<\/a> | Faculty Profile<\/a><\/p>

Margot Kotler, Senior Associate Director
Email: mkotler@barnard.edu<\/a><\/p>

Sandra Moyano, Research Director and Senior Editor
Email: smoyanoa@barnard.edu<\/a><\/p>

Hope Dector, Creative Director
Email:\u00a0hdector@barnard.edu<\/a><\/p>

Pam Phillips,\u00a0Senior Program Assistant
Email:\u00a0pphillips@barnard.edu<\/a><\/p>

Nico Wright, Interim Program Manager
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Executive Committee<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor, Women’s Studies and Sociology, Barnard College
Sarah Haley, Associate Professor, History, Columbia University
Rebecca Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Margot Kotler, Senior Associate Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Nara Milanich, Professor, History, Barnard College
Shayoni Mitra, Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre, Barnard College
Manijeh Moradian, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History, Barnard College (Ex Officio)
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Associate Professor, Architecture, Barnard College<\/p>

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Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Katherine Acey, Senior Activist Fellow, Emerita | Profile<\/a>
Amber Hollibaugh, Senior Activist Fellow (in memoriam) | Profile<\/a>
Cara Page, Activist-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute | Profile<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Advisory Board<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Liam Adler, Director of Collections Strategy, Access, and Engagement and Librarian for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard Library
Ati Akbari, Term Assistant Professor, English and First Year Foundation
Saima Akhtar, Associate Director, Vagelos Computational Science Center and Barnard Library
Andrew Anastasi, Term Assistant Professor, Sociology
Belinda Archibong, Assistant Professor, Economics
Meredith Benjamin, Lecturer in First-Year Writing, English and First Year Foundation
Beth Berkowitz, Professor and Ingeborg Rennert Chair, Jewish Studies
Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology
Dale Booth, Term Assistant Professor, History
Elizabeth Castelli, Professor, Religion
Vassiki Chauhan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vision Lab
Sonya Chen, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Gabri Christa, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Dance and Director, Movement Lab
Yvette Christians\u00eb, Claire Tow Professor, Africana Studies and English
Vrinda Condillac, Interim Associate Director of the First Year Seminar Program and Lecturer, First Year Writing, English, and First Year Foundation
Jennie Correia, Associate Director of Teaching, Learning, and Research Services and Research and Instruction Librarian for the Social Sciences, Barnard Library
Ding, Term Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Antoni Fern\u00e1ndez Parera, Lecturer, Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Marjorie Folkman, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Dance
Jenna Freedman, Director of the Barnard Zine Library, Barnard Library
Ignacio G. Galan, Assistant Professor, Architecture
Abosede George, Tow Associate Professor, History and Africana Studies
Tara Gonsalves, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Tiffany Hale, Assistant Professor, Religion
Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Professor, English and Africana Studies
Amelia Simone Herbert, Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Studies
Maricarmen Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Sociology
David Hopson, Creative Director, Barnard Communications
Lisa Jahn, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Janet Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dani Joslyn, Term Lecturer, American Studies
Tovah Klein, Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychology and Director, Barnard College Toddler Center
Dorothy Ko, Professor, History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Colin Leach, Professor, Psychology and Africana Studies
Cecelia Lie-Spahn, Lecturer, English, Director of the First-Year Writing Workshop Program, and Associate Director, First-Year Writing Program
Allison Lopatkin, Assistant Professor, Computational Biology
Angelo Matteo Caglioti, Assistant Professor, History
Tey Meadow, Associate Professor, Sociology, Columbia

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Nara Milanich, Professor, History
Monica Miller, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, English and Africana Studies
Debra Minkoff, Miriam Scharfman Zadek Family Professor and Department Chair, Sociology and Dean of Faculty Diversity and Development
Shayoni Mitra, Senior Lecturer, Theatre
Manijeh Moradian, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ellen Morris, Associate Professor, Ancient Studies and Chair, Classical Studies Graduate Program (Columbia)
Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History, Barnard College
Rachel Narehood Austin, Diana T. and P. Roy Vagelos Professor, Chemistry
Celia Naylor, Professor, History and Africana Studies and Chair, Africana Studies
Alex Pittman, Associate Director, Center for Engaged Pedagogy
Anupama Rao, Professor, History and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African Studies (Columbia)
Alice Reagan, Chair and Professor of Professional Practice, Theatre; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Drama and Theatre Arts (Columbia)
Daria Reaven, Early Career Faculty Fellow, American Studies
Nic Rios, Term Lecturer, Philosophy
Melanie Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Physical Education
Francey Russell, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Susan Reimer Sacks, Professor Emerita, Education and Adjunct Professor, Psychology
Flora Schiminovich (in memoriam), Senior Scholar Emerita, Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Ann Senghas, Professor of Psychology; Director, Program in Cognitive Science
Randa Serhan, Term Associate Professor, Sociology
Anooradha Siddiqi, Assistant Professor, Architecture
Christian Siener, Term Assistant Professor, Urban Studies
Herb Sloan (in memoriam), Professor Emeritus, History
Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Dean, Barnard Library
Marisa Solomon, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Neferti Tadiar, Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Martha Tenney, Director, Barnard Archives and Special Collections
Colleen Thomas-Young, Professor of Professional Practice and Chair, Dance
Katherine Thorson, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Lisa Tiersten, Professor, History
Corey Toler-Franklin, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Aurelis Troncoso, Early Career Faculty Fellow, Africana Studies
Duygu Oya Ula, Lecturer in First-Year Writing, English and First Year Foundation
Christina Van Dyke, Term Professor, Philosophy
Alexandra Watson, Lecturer in First-Year Writing, English and Associate Director, Writing Program
Michael G. Wheaton, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Seth Stewart Williams, Assistant Professor, Dance and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Nancy Worman, Professor, Classics and Comparative Literature
Amy Zhou, Assistant Professor, Sociology<\/p>

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