Research and Projects | Transnational Feminisms

BCRW has a number of ongoing research projects that allow us to deepen collaborations with our partners, both international and domestic. These projects involve multiple forms of engagement – events, workshops, working groups, and co-produced media and learning materials.

Projects

Theater and Sex Work: VAMP’s Performance as Resistance

A film collaboration between VAMP (Sangli) and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (New York). This video is edited and produced by Pulkit Datta.

Birthright Crisis

Miriam Neptune highlights the work of activists organizing around discriminatory citizenship laws in the Dominican Republic, documenting cycles of violence against Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices

Building on Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan's foundational text, this project brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists who are producing the field of transnational feminisms.

Student Seminars

A global seminar series to build more extensive intellectual and organizational connections between the Global Symposium host cities, sites of faculty research, and Barnard College.

Gender Justice & Neoliberal Transformations

A synthetic project analyzing connection among possibilities for building gender justice in current political and economic conditions.

African Women’s Rights and Resilience

During the 2013-14 academic year, Barnard was proud to host Nobel Laureate and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee as its inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice and a Transnational Fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Students, faculty and visitors benefited from her perspectives on social justice and human rights.

Intersections of Queer Studies and Religion

Queer studies has changed the epistemological landscape for a number of fields. “Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Study of Religion and Gender" takes up these challenges and transformations.