Barnard College News

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 India’s religious and cultural landscape.

Barnard publishes two pieces of work, an essay entitled "When Blindness Makes for Sight" and co-edited a book entitled "Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart."

Kayla Levy ’19 was awarded the inaugural Ingeborg, Tamara, and Yonina Rennert Prize in Jewish Women’s Studies on April 16, 2019.

On March 27, 2019 Rajkamal Prakashan, one of Hindi’s most important presses, released a Hindi version of Jack Hawley’s book "Three Bhakti Voices."


To mark the month of Ramadan (May 14–June 15), an explanation of the significance of the holy month and a definition of an Islamic “super-hero.”