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The Barnard College Media Relations staff works with the press to communicate news about research, programming, and related activities as well as to provide information and arrange interviews with high-achieving students, administrators and faculty experts on a broad range of topics. Journalists are welcome to contact the Media Relations staff at mediarelations@barnard.edu or submit a request online.

Featured Experts

  • Elizabeth Ananat
    Mallya Professor of Women and Economics

    Elizabeth Ananat

    Expertise
    Business, Careers, Personal Finance & the Economy, Public Policy & Laws
  • Gail Archer sits in front of an organ wearing a pink blazer. She leans on the organ and holds her hands on top of each other in front of her torso. She is smiling and looks at the camera. She wears dangling earrings, a necklace that is barely visible under the blazer, a watch and bracelets, and rings. She is a white woman who wears round rectangular wire-frame glasses. She has short grey hair that stops right above her ears. She wears eyeliner and red lipstick in the photo.
    Professor of Professional Practice

    Gail Archer

    Expertise
    Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures

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Barnard faculty experts are available to comment on the most pressing issues of our times.

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Alexander Alberro

Alexander Alberro

Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Professor of Art History

Department Affiliations Art History

Topics

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Art History; Modern Art; Contemporary Art, Photography

Expertise
  • Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Media Feature
Elizabeth Ananat

Elizabeth Ananat

Mallya Professor of Women and Economics

Department Affiliations Economics

Topics

Inequality (race, gender, income), its causes and consequences, and policies to reduce it; poverty; working families

Expertise
  • Business, Careers, Personal Finance & the Economy
  • Public Policy & Laws
Media Feature
Gail Archer sits in front of an organ wearing a pink blazer. She leans on the organ and holds her hands on top of each other in front of her torso. She is smiling and looks at the camera. She wears dangling earrings, a necklace that is barely visible under the blazer, a watch and bracelets, and rings. She is a white woman who wears round rectangular wire-frame glasses. She has short grey hair that stops right above her ears. She wears eyeliner and red lipstick in the photo.

Gail Archer

Professor of Professional Practice

Department Affiliations Music

Topics

Choir, Organ, Women in music

Expertise
  • Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Rachel Narehood Austin

Rachel Narehood Austin

Diana T. and P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry

Department Affiliations Chemistry

Topics

Science, chemistry, lead neurotoxicity, oil spills, biofuels, green chemistry

Expertise
  • Technology & STEM
Media Feature
Séverine Autesserre
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science

Department Affiliations Africana Studies, Human Rights, Political Science

Expertise
  • Politics - International
Media Feature
Peter Balsam

Peter Balsam (Chair, Department of Neuroscience & Behavior)

Samuel R. Milbank Professor

Department Affiliations Neuroscience & Behavior, Psychology

Topics

Behavioral neuroscience, time perception, anticipation, motivation, animal models of psychiatric disorders

Expertise
  • Education, Cognition & Learning
  • Technology & STEM
Media Feature
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Nicholas Bartlett

Assistant Professor

Department Affiliations Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

Topics

China, heroin addiction, mental health

Expertise
  • Health - Physical & Mental
Media Feature
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Alyssa Battistoni

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Department Affiliations Political Science

Topics

Labor politics, climate politics, The Green New Deal, green jobs, care work, natural capital/ecosystem services

Expertise
  • Activism & Social Justice Issues
  • Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
  • Feminism & Sexism
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Beth Berkowitz

Professor, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies

Department Affiliations Religion

Topics

Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Jewish law and practice

Expertise
  • Religion
Media Feature
Sheri Berman

Sheri Berman

Professor of Political Science

Department Affiliations Political Science

Topics

Europe, populism, elections, parties, the political left, democracy, authoritarianism, dictatorship

Expertise
  • Politics - International
  • Politics - National & Local
  • Public Policy & Laws
Media Feature
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Elizabeth Bernstein

Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of Sociology        

Department Affiliations Sociology, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Topics

Sexual politics, trafficking, prostitution, feminism and criminal justice

Expertise
  • Feminism & Sexism
Media Feature
Peter Bower

Peter Bower

Research Scholar in Environmental Science

Department Affiliations Environmental Science

Topics

Hudson River ecosystem, pollution, toxics, Rachel Carson, conservation and preservation of art and architecture

Expertise
  • Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes

Professor of History

Department Affiliations American Studies, History, Reacting to the Past

Topics

Higher Education; Active-Learning; Pedagogy; Reacting to the Past curriculum

Expertise
  • Education, Cognition & Learning
  • Public Policy & Laws
Media Feature
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Ken Chen

Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Creative Writing      

Department Affiliations English

Topics

Literature, Asian American issues

Expertise
  • Activism & Social Justice Issues
  • Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
  • Immigration
  • Race & Race Relations
Elizabeth M. Cook

Elizabeth M. Cook

Assistant Professor in Environmental Science

Department Affiliations Environmental Science

Topics

Future urban sustainability, climate resilience, urban planning, ecosystem services, extreme weather related events (hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, droughts), climate justice, green infrastructure, participatory research, nature based solutions

Expertise
  • Activism & Social Justice Issues
  • Disasters (man-made or natural)
  • Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
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Alexander Cooley

Claire Tow Professor of Political Science; 15th Director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe (2015-2021); Vice Provost for Research and Academic Centers (2022 - present)

Department Affiliations Political Science

Topics

International politics; Russia and Eurasia; Central Asia; Illiberalism in global affairs (authoritarianism, populism, conservatism), U.S.-led international order; U.S. and Russian foreign policy; international relations; global governance

Expertise
  • Politics - International
Media Feature
Uttara Asha Coorlawala

Uttara Asha Coorlawala

Adjunct Professor Dance

Department Affiliations Dance

Topics

Dance, South Asian dance

Expertise
  • Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Media Feature
Daniela De Silva

Daniela De Silva

Olin Professor of Mathematics, Chair of the Department of Mathematics

Department Affiliations Mathematics

Topics

Women in Math

Expertise
  • Technology & STEM
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Severin Fowles

Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Chair of Anthropology, Director of the Archaeology Track

Department Affiliations American Studies, Anthropology Department

Topics

Archaeology, rock art, pre-Columbian Americas, North American archaeology and Indigenous communities, sacred landscapes

Expertise
  • Religion
Media Feature
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John Glendinning

Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biological Sciences

Department Affiliations Biology, Neuroscience & Behavior

Topics

Diet, food, health, sweeteners

Expertise
  • Health - Physical & Mental
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