Edwidge Danticat ’90 is a celebrated and internationally renowned author known for her fearlessness and innovation in writing. A jack of all trades, Danticat’s career spans success in criticism, translation, literature, and film.
Archives News
Barnard Archives student workers are shining a spotlight on some our awesome alums! Learn more about Alyssa Mt. Pleasant - and keep a lookout for buttons of her when we return to campus
Share your voice with the Archives, add a Zine to our collection, or collaborate on documentation with the Media Center.
Members of the Shange Magic Project received $5,000 for their idea The Love Space Demands: Sharing the Words of Ntozake Shange in the Barnard Library, which will support the installation of excerpts from the work of Ntozake Shange ’70 on walls around the Milstein Center.
Denise Mantey ‘21 and Martha Tenney will be speaking at the. Project STAND Symposium at ASU on February 28. They’re going to talk about the experience of creating an exhibit (together with Maat Bates ‘21) celebrating and reflecting on 50 years of BOSS.
The Barnard Library will award $2,500 to two researchers to support their use of its Archives, Media Center, Zine Library, and other collections/resources.
Martha has seven years of experience working in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections
Sarah is a senior and a student worker in the Archives. Find out more about the kind of work Archives Associates get to do on a day to day basis, Sarah’s favorite part about working at the Archives, and a highlight from our digital collections.
An improved Digital Collections mobile site, a shiny new IMATS Patron Portal, and more!
Shannon will join NYU as the Curator for the Tamiment-Wagner Collections
Corinth is working in the Archives on a digital humanities inflected project
BC alums retain access to the physical library, staff, and a suite of licensed databases. (updated)
Congratulations Kirsty Fife, Maya Garfinkel BC '19, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs BC '04!
Our Director of Collections Services and Library Operations joins other Lesbian Herstory Archives researchers to discuss their work.
New this month in the Barnard Library in the Milstein Center at Barnard College, Columbia University
Code4Lib is a volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists, etc. who largely work for and with libraries, archives and museums on technology “stuff."
The weather is freezing, but the library has events galore to keep you warm.
We're preparing for the many new faces and new events that spring semester will bring!
SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country’s entrenched political, economic and social structures.
For research perfomed in the Barnard Archives, Center for Research on Woman, or Zine Library. Applications due midnight ET 3/3/19.
Barnard Instructional Application Developer Ben Rosner is the lead developer on this project.
Friday afternoon bookmaking. Applications due Monday 9/24/18.
Blog post on Pulitzer Prize-winning Science Columnist Natalie Angier.
Blog post on the creator of Harlem's first mental health facility, Elizabeth Bishop Davis
Blog post on the novelist, poet, translator and editor Babette Deutsch
Blog post on librarian and archivist of Black culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
Blog post on poet, independent scholar, and activist Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Blog post on the poet, playwright, and astrologer Ariana Reines
Blog post on the award-winning writer, professor, and activist June Jordan
Blog post on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Katherine Boo
College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education, posted June 24, 2015.
What is the Black German Experience?
2nd Annual BGCSNJ Convention, 8/10-8/11
For more information, please visit:
http://blackgermans.us/convention2012/
University of North Carolina Press author Celia Naylor provides historical context for the current debates surrounding the Cherokee freedmen. Naylor is the author of African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, which examines the intricate and emotionally charged history of Cherokee freedpeople.
