News

This fall Barnard's academic departments welcomed a number of new faculty members, with a diverse range of research and teaching interests.

This year marks two important anniversaries for Zora Neale Hurston ’28, a preeminent writer of the Harlem Renaissance. To celebrate them, Barnard Magazine recently published two essays that broaden our understanding of this unique American writer.

From Barnard to you... All good things in the new year.

What Hurston’s autobiography can and cannot tell us

For Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Barnard's President writes about the challenges of "having it all"

Diverse Issues in Higher Education highlights Prof. Christiansë's collaboration with South African colleague.

Debora L. Spar, President of Barnard College, answers the question "Why a women's college," in this Q&A with the India Ink blog in the New York Times.

Food for Thought from Faculty Experts

International peacekeeping works better when the people trying to do that job pay attention to local conflicts in the countries they are trying to help.

So says Severine Autesserre,  a Barnard College political scientist who has won the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth in her book, “The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.”

Professor Autesserre, political science, is honored for ideas set forth in her book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.

Distinguished alumna Edwidge Danticat '90 returns to campus to share her new book, Create Dangerously, and to discuss what inspires her and drives her storytelling.

Reunion 2011 brought more than 1,300 alumnae and guests to campus for a weekend-long celebration of all things Barnard – in the classroom, on stage and around the world.

Three juniors studying math and science were named winners or have received honorable mentions in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship competition.