Faculty News
New publications, media appearances, awards and achievements
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Eliana Steele ’26, a Laidlaw Scholar and linguistics major, researches language engineering — a method to restore Indigenous oral cultures, histories, and identity.
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The celebrated author reflects on a voyage of departure and return — touchstones of her latest book, Roman Stories — as well as her first year back at Barnard.
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On October 2, the Athena Film Festival launched submissions for the Abortion Pipeline Project (APP), a new fund to celebrate and support abortion stories. APP is an annual screenplay competition for feature-length and short narrative film scripts which center abortion.
Barnard faculty: Do you have news or an interesting project to share? Notify us by emailing newsteam@barnard.edu.