Debora L. Spar, President of Barnard College, answers the question "Why a women's college," in this Q&A with the India Ink blog in the New York Times.
Faculty News
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.”
Professor Autesserre, political science, is honored for ideas set forth in her book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.
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.
In The Washington Post, political science professor explains critical role of Uzbekistan in transporting U.S. war supplies.
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