Well-Woman’s Jessica Cannon ’03 chats with Jackie Jahn ’12 and Zoe Mendelson ’12 about creating an online reproductive and sexual encyclopedia with your best friend from college.
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In this special interview to celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month, the famed writer shares his views on storytelling and his obsession with his native country, Colombia.
Lisa Son, associate professor of psychology, gets in her own head about her new book and the metacognitive hurdles she jumped to learn how to write it in Korean.
In this Q&A, Claire Tow Professor of Religion Jack Hawley — unofficially named an honorary citizen of the Braj region of North India earlier this year — discusses his interests in India’s religious and cultural landscape.
In this Break This Down interview, Professor Elizabeth Hutchinson discusses the historical and cultural issues raised in cataloging and exhibiting America’s indigenous cultural treasures.
For this Father’s Day edition of “Break This Down,” history professor Nara Milanich shares some fascinating stories about parentage from her new book, Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (June 10), which explores the social and political constructs that have been built around the idea of fatherhood.
This year, Being Barnard, the College’s sexual violence education program, in collaboration with Columbia’s Sexual Violence Response (SVR), is hosting several events on campus throughout the month to help raise awareness among the community. Being Barnard’s Cristen Kennedy breaks it all down.
A discussion of indigenous issues, political ecology, and Facebook’s role in Papua New Guinea with Professor Paige West.
In recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 7–13) and World Mental Health Day (October 10), Professor Michael G. Wheaton discusses the meanings of the three ubiquitous letters.
Lesbian Scholar Karla Jay ’68 reflects on the importance of identity, coming out, and the meaning of “lavender culture” — in honor of Pride Month.
To mark the month of Ramadan (May 14–June 15), Hussein Rashid explains the significance of the holy month and offers a definition of an Islamic “super-hero.”
This special Mother’s Day edition, with Professor Nara Milanich, shines a light on the government’s practice of incarcerating refugee mothers and children and the experiences of the women themselves.
The “toddler whisperer,” Prof. Tovah Klein, breaks down the importance of children at work.
The economics of time, gender, and the role economics play in everyday life, with Prof. Daniel Hamermesh.
Forty years ago, mothers in the paid labor force were fighting for protections and rights. Working Mother Media founder Carol Evans says they still are.
Professor Rosalind Rosenberg on the importance of twentieth-century activist and scholar Pauli Murray.
Professor Ron Briggs discusses the power and influence of the literary salons of Lima in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to mark National Latinx/ Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15).
An exploration of racialized images in a genre of photography called “identification photography,” with Professor Tina Campt.
To mark the August 1791 anniversary of the start of the Haitian Revolution, Professor Kaiama Glover explores dystopian Haiti, zombies, and how pop culture perpetuates and reinforces incorrect narratives about Haiti and the wider "black" world.
Grammy-nominated concert organist Professor Gail Archer discusses her amazing career.