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WOMEN'S STUDIES
Women's Studies
201 Barnard Hall
854-2108
www.barnard.edu/wmstud
Professors: Elizabeth Castelli (Religion), Janet Jakobsen, Natalie B. Kampen ( Barbara Novak '50 Professor of Art History), Laura Kay (Physics and Astronomy), Dorothy Ko (History), Neferti Xina Tadiar (Chair), Lisa Tiersten (History), Deborah Valenze (History)
Associate Professors: Jonathan Beller (English), Paula Ettelbrick (Adjunct), Irena Klepfisz (Adjunct), Anupama Rao (History)
Assistant Professors: Elizabeth Bernstein (Sociology), Rebecca Young
Senior Lecturer: Timea Szell (English)
Associate: Maxine Weisgrau
Term Assistant Professor: Christina Cynn
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary department for students who wish to explore the basic questions raised by recent scholarship on gender and its relation to other systems of cultural/political difference: race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. This scholarship covers a complex variety of theoretical and empirical studies both within traditional disciplines and in interdisciplinary frames. Such areas include gender theory (in the humanities, in the social sciences, and in the natural sciences, as well as frequent combinations of the three); and work in interdisciplinary areas such Asia-Pacific cultural studies, critical race and ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, gender and health, and sexuality studies.
Early in their sophomore year, students interested in the major should consult the department to plan their major. Students also have the option of electing a joint or double major and have access to Columbia graduate courses, since some cover special areas not otherwise available at Barnard. A minor in Women's Studies is also offered.
Complementing the Women's Studies Department, the Barnard Center for Research on Women maintains an extensive and expanding resource collection on women's issues. The center also sponsors a variety of lectures and discussions that are invaluable to students interested in Women's Studies.