Mission
The Center for Research on Women was founded in 1971 as part of
Barnard's longtime commitment to women's equality and to show Barnard's
enthusiasm for the new women's movement. The aim of the Center, as
articulated by its founding charter, is "to assure that women can live
and work in dignity, autonomy, and equality." More than three decades
later, we continue to pursue that goal in many ways: by promoting
inquiry and advancing knowledge about women; by helping to keep women's
issues on the forefront of college life; by seeking to increase ties
among diverse groups of women; and by reaching out to students, faculty,
administrators, alumnae, as well as scholars, activists and artists
beyond Barnard's gates.
Toward this aim, the Center hosts a series of lectures, panel
discussions and conferences exploring a wide range of feminist and
social justice issues. We have, in recent semesters, welcomed such
visionaries as actors Anna Deavere Smith and Zoe Caldwell, political
activists Amber Hollibaugh and Sister Helen Prejean, nobel Peace
laureate Jody Williams, environmental activist Winona LaDuke, poets June
Jordan and Adrienne Rich, legal scholar Lani Guinier, journalists
Natalie Angier and Katha Pollitt, and scholars Judith Butler and Kate
Millett. Whether they're addressing the changing role of women in the
business place, discussing representations of women in film, or
critiquing the criminal justice system, our speakers bring the
complexities of our world into focus through the lens of feminist
scholarship.
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Staff
BCRW Staff:
Janet Jakobsen, Ph.D., Director
Gisela Fosado, Ph.D., Associate Director
Lucy Trainor '07, Program Manager
Pam Phillips, Administrative Assistant
Hope Dector, Web Designer
A staff email directory is available on
our contact page.
Student Research Assistants:
Alison Bilderback '11
Vaidehi Joshi '12
Luyang Liu '12
Hallie McPherson '12
Ali Salas '13
Anna Steffens '10
Eva Vaillancourt '12
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Email List
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Collection
The Center also houses a collection of research material that
includes periodicals, emphemera (conference papers, government reports,
manifestoes, and other non-book materials), non-profit organizations'
newsletters and archives of defunct publications from early second-wave
feminism. In Spring of 2006, the Center launched "From the Collection", a series of online
exhibits making these valuable materials more widely available.
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