In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day (October 10), and the College’s connection to the tribe, Barnard and Columbia University honor the Picuris Pueblo with weeklong events.
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The first year of the breakthrough program is inspiring a diverse cadre of determined, creative change-makers.
The anthropology major (above, second from left) reflects on her nearly decade-long journey as a climate activist — from first recognizing the importance of reversing climate change in middle school to becoming a sustainability leader at Barnard College.
It is with heavy hearts that we mark the passing of Paul Farmer—medical anthropologist, physician, champion of public health, and social activist. Farmer worked tirelessly to care and advocate for the sick and the dying, especially among those who were marginalized, overlooked, and shunned. His mark is everywhere within the field of medical anthropology, inspiring more than one generation of students to study medical anthropology, work at the intersection of anthropology and public health, and add their shoulder to the wheel of efforts to end deeply-entrenched health disparities locally and globally. Indeed, Farmer's name is synonymous with the idea of “structural violence,” a term he introduced to our discipline's lexicon decades ago. We have lost an important elder far, far too soon. A great tree has fallen.
https://www.pih.org/article/remembering-dr-paul-farmer
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/obituaries/paul-farmer-dead.html
In The Ancient Table: The Archeology of Cooking and Cuisine, students study how food has been made, shared, and eaten throughout history.
Cleo Payne ('21) The Nan A. Rothschild Prize Award
Sidney Rojas ('21) Wins The Morton Klass Prize Award
To celebrate Women’s History Month (March), all month long we are highlighting select lists of Barnard’s dedicated faculty who have been previously recognized with teaching and leadership awards.
Since last Women’s History Month (March) — over the course of a challenging year — alumnae, faculty, and students still stepped up as game-changers.
A year after delivering her senior thesis, the budding anthropologist’s paper wins the Society for Applied Anthropology’s first-place prize.
For their Athena Senior Seminar, Madison Murphy ’21, Saskia Ghosh ’21, and Mae Viccica ’21 produced a virtual concert series to help uplift some of the most at risk for COVID-19.
Read about the latest grants earned by Barnard faculty and staff to support their research.
A round up of the latest accomplishments by Barnard faculty.
Film by Petra Costa, Anthropology Major and Barnard Alum, makes it to the 2020 Oscars
https://barnard.edu/news/oscar-smiles-three-barnard-alumnae
Read about the latest fellowships and grants won by Barnard faculty and campus programs.
See inside the only organization in the country that assists refugees in paying back travel loans.
Sabine Shaughnessy, ( '17) 2018 Winner Of The Rudolf Virchow Paper Prize.
Lydia Nasser ('20) wins Gladys Reichard award!
Friday, Nov. 2, 4-5:30 pm (reception to follow), 202 Altschul Hall, Barnard College
Sunday, December 2, 2018, 2:00 pm
Please RSVP by November 15 to Nan Rothschild
nar8@columbia.edu
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Prof. Sharp was invited as a specialist on xenotransplantation, the use of animals as sources to replace failing human organs in sickly patients.
Congratulations to Paige Lerman ('18), Fulbright recipient...
Olivia Korostoff-Larsson ('19) and Iris Querenet ('19) have both recently received competitive Tow Fellowships to conduct summer research...
Brittany Fletcher ('19) wins national award from the Society for American Archaeology...
Both conferences address political ecology, advocating for multifaceted conservation efforts through policy change.
His speech will address global migration, and immigration and human rights.
Prof. Green's latest article is entitled "Performing Gesture: The pragmatic functions of pantomimic and lexical repertoires in a natural sign narrative"...
A bold student in ANTH 1007 (Origins of Human Society) flint-knaps knife for Thanksgiving meal...
Barnard Anthropology faculty to present at the 2018 AAA conference in Washington DC...
Prof. Larkin engaged in conversation with Nigerian director, Daniel Oriahi, and star, Ijeoma Grace Agu, of Taxi Driver...
As of Fall, 2017, Barnard’s Anthropology Department is pleased to now offer a specialized major in Medical Anthropology...
On Oct. 27th 2017, Prof. Green was in Edinburgh as part of the "Sign Language Ideologies in Practice" workshop...
Prof. West will give a lecture titled “Depression, Racism and the Environment"...
Prof. West's new book, Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea, receives major recognition...
Oxford University Press has just published The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, co-edited by Barbara Mills and Prof. Severin Fowles...
West claims that crucial problems and solutions are missing from many regional and international framings of sustainability.