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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

Associate Professor of Environmental Science

Elizabeth M. Cook

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues, Disasters (man-made or natural), Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
Assistant Professor

Mark Santolucito

Expertise

Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures, Technology & STEM

Anne Higonnet

Anne Higonnet

Barbara Novak Professor of Art History

Department Affiliations Art History

Alexandra Horowitz

Senior Lecturer of Psychology

Department Affiliations English, Psychology

Topics

Animal Cognition; Dog Cognition; Dog Olfaction; Animal Behavior; Science Writing

Expertise

Education, Cognition & Learning

Cecelia Lie-Spahn

Cecelia Lie-Spahn

Lecturer, English; Associate Director of the First-Year Writing Program, Director of the First-Year Writing Workshop Program

Department Affiliations Writing Fellows, English, First Year Foundation

Topics

Reproductive Justice, Rights and Health; Writing Pedagogy; Feminist Science, Technology Studies

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Education, Cognition & Learning
Feminism & Sexism
Health - Physical & Mental
Politics - International
Politics - National & Local
Public Policy & Laws
Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence

Professor Kimberly Marten

Kimberly Marten

Professor

Department Affiliations Political Science

Topics

NATO; Russia; Russia in Africa; Russia in Latin America; Russian security issues; Russia and arms control; Russia and cyber issues

Expertise

Politics - International

Nara Milanich

Professor and Chair of History

Department Affiliations History

Topics

Reproduction, Genetic technologies, Science and society, History of genetic technologies/contemporary uses of DNA testing, History of reproduction, Migrant children/families, Latin America

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Feminism & Sexism
Health - Physical & Mental
Immigration

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Michael G. Miller

Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science

Department Affiliations Political Science

Topics

U.S. Elections, Election Law, Polling, Public Opinion

Expertise

Politics - National & Local
Public Policy & Laws

JJ Miranda

JJ Miranda

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Department Affiliations Biology

Topics

Virology, SARS-CoV-2, Cancer, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM

Expertise

Health - Physical & Mental
Technology & STEM

Eduardo Moncada

Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science

Department Affiliations Urban Studies, Political Science

Topics

Illicit or criminal markets, narcotrafficking, extortion, organized crime, vigilantism

Expertise

Crime, Hate Crimes & Terrorism
Politics - International

Premilla Nadasen

Premilla Nadasen

Professor of History

Department Affiliations History

Topics

Welfare, poverty, labor, history, domestic workers, South Africa, Miriam Makeba, unions

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Feminism & Sexism
Immigration
LGBTQ+ Issues
Politics - National & Local
Public Policy & Laws
Race & Race Relations
Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence

Anupama Rao

Anupama Rao

Professor of History and MESAAS (Columbia)

Department Affiliations Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Human Rights

Topics

Social Difference; Spatial Inequality; Race and Caste; Ideas in History and the present; Force of ideas in the world

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Crime, Hate Crimes & Terrorism
Feminism & Sexism
Politics - International
Race & Race Relations

Randall Reback

Professor of Economics

Department Affiliations Economics

Topics

Education finance, school-based health services, public school choice, children's mental health

Expertise

Child Development
Education, Cognition & Learning
Public Policy & Laws

Russell Romeo

Russell Romeo

Professor of Neuroscience

Department Affiliations Neuroscience & Behavior

Topics

Neuroscience, Adolescence, Stress, Brain Development

Expertise

Child Development
Health - Physical & Mental

J.C. Salyer

J.C. Salyer

Director, Human Rights Program | Associate Professor of Practice, Anthropology and Human Rights

Department Affiliations Anthropology Department, Human Rights

Topics

U.S. Immigration Law, Asylum and Refugees, Immigration and Human Rights, Climate Change and Migration

Expertise

Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
Immigration
Public Policy & Laws

Mark Santolucito

Mark Santolucito

Assistant Professor

Department Affiliations Computer Science

Topics

Computing in the Arts, Program Synthesis, Computer Music

Expertise

Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Technology & STEM

Randa Serhan

Lecturer of Sociology

Department Affiliations Sociology

Topics

Under-represented ethnic minorities, Arab Americans, second generation immigrants, coalition building across racial/ethnic lines, Arab New York

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Immigration

Rajiv Sethi

Professor of Economics

Department Affiliations Economics, Human Rights

Topics

Policing, Incarceration, Banking, Finance, Prediction Markets, Human-Machine Interactions

Expertise

Business, Careers, Personal Finance & the Economy
Crime, Hate Crimes & Terrorism
Public Policy & Laws
Race & Race Relations

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Associate Professor, Architecture

Department Affiliations Architecture Department

Topics

Architecture, architectural history, migration, refugees, refugee camps, africa, Kenya, Dadaab, South Asia, Sri Lanka, India

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Disasters (man-made or natural)
Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change
Feminism & Sexism
Politics - International

Photo of Professor Angela Simms wearing a white shirt under a brown blazer

Angela M. Simms

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies

Department Affiliations Sociology, Urban Studies

Topics

Black Americans, the Black middle class, racism, political economy, metropolitan areas, taxes, racialized capitalism

Expertise

Activism & Social Justice Issues
Politics - National & Local
Public Policy & Laws
Race & Race Relations

Lisa Son

Lisa Son

Professor of Psychology

Department Affiliations First Year Foundation, Psychology

Topics

Metacognition, Classroom and Teaching Strategies, Memory Biases, Korean vs. American Education, Asian-American Issues, Women in STEM

Expertise

Education, Cognition & Learning
Technology & STEM

Patricia Stokes

Patricia Stokes

Adjunct Professor

Department Affiliations First Year Foundation, Psychology

Topics

Constraints in innovation, early math education, math anxiety, problem solving

Expertise

Arts, Entertainment, Languages & Cultures
Education, Cognition & Learning
Technology & STEM