Department News

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.

Six graduates reflect back, look forward, and celebrate the moment!

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

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.