Barnard political science expert Alexander Cooley reveals how global institutions once grounded in liberal ideals are being co-opted by authoritarian power — from FIFA to the front page
Magazine
Four trailblazing Barnard women whose extraordinary contributions made an outsize impact on their professional fields and beyond
How students are leading a campus food movement through Gourmand
A new book by a 2025 Barnard Medal of Distinction awardee reveals how religious expression was used in the decades after slavery to send recently freed Black people to insane asylums
Dispatches
Alumnae celebrate being Barnard beyond the gates
June 4, 2025
Before breaking for summer, students donate thousands of pounds of gently used items, reducing waste as part of the College’s ongoing Circular Campus initiative
July 23, 2025
Barnard proudly graduates the next generation of future women leaders
July 24, 2025
Discourses
This year’s crop of books from Barnard authors offers an array of genres, from heady history to fun fiction and more.
July 8, 2025
How former Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Marie Chaker ’97 became a professional bodybuilder — and an advocate for women finding strength, inside and out
July 23, 2025
With the Women in Agency Festival, La Femme Theatre Productions founder Jean Lichty ’81 gives recent Barnard grads a powerful platform for original work
July 23, 2025
Features
The Barnard professor brings her research on Black dandyism to the Met Costume Institute
May 13, 2025
From the College’s earliest days, the liberal arts have been at the core of the Barnard experience. Today’s Barnard seamlessly merges technology with the humanities — and that’s by design
May 19, 2025
Marion Lewin ’60, who survived the unimaginable, finds beauty in the every day
May 12, 2025
Noteworthy
Maria Tomilenko ’19 on perception and web design at the Tate Modern
July 23, 2025
A trailblazer of experimental verse, Alice Notley ’67 was recognized as one of the most influential poets of her generation
July 24, 2025
