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

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“Theorizing Diasporic Visuality,” is the first CCIS Critical Inquiry Lab – an innovative series of linked courses sponsored by the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS).

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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.”

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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.

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Article on Matar, Libyan author and member of the English Department, appears in The National.

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Prof. Matar, Libyan author and member of Barnard's English faculty, answers questions on Libya through The New Yorker's "Ask the Author" webpage.

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Hisham Matar, Lybian novelist and member of Barnard's English faculty, was a guest on Charlie Rose's broadcast and MSNBC discussing the death of Gaddafi. 

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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.

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Haiti Unbound:  A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon

By Kaiama L. Gover

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