Student News
2024:
2023:
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Barnard History Majors celebrate the completion of their theses
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Barnard Congratulates Phi Beta Kappa Society Spring 2023 Inductees
- History alum shares how the Melon Mays program shaped her career in academia
- Apply to the 2023 Gilder Lehrman College Fellowship Program in American History
- History alums spoke to current majors about the major and their careers at a Beyond Barnard-sponsored event, “Career Insights: History Major Career Pathways,” on March 29, 2023
2022:
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Barnard History/Philosophy major (2013) and Columbia History PhD (2021) Divya Subramanian is this year's recipient of the Urban History Association's prestigious Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History!
- Samantha Ortega wins the Katherine Reeve Girard Prize 2022, awarded to a student whose interests are in the international aspects of her major
- Daniela Goodman Rabner wins the Schwimmer Prize 2022, awarded to an outstanding graduating senior in the humanities who exemplifies a scholarly commitment to the humanist tradition
- Heather Loepere wins the Ellen Davis Goldwater History Prize 2022 for superior work by an undergraduate in history
- Ruby Guralnik Dawes wins the Eugene H. Byrne History Prize 2022 for superior work by an undergraduate in history
- History Major Daniela Goodman Rabner wins Fulbright to do research in Argentina
2021:
- History Major Phoebe Jones (class of 2018) writes an article on compensation for exonerated people, wrongfully accused of a crime they did not commit
- History Major Lula O’Donnell publishes op-ed on the struggles of essential laundromat workers to defend their rights
2020:
- History Major & El Pasoan Samantha Ortega publishes historical op-ed comparing the treatment of migrants at the border during a 1917 typhus outbreak & COVID-19
- History Major Rachel Eu publishes senior thesis in the Journal of Urban History
- History Major Jodi Lessner publishes senior thesis in the Journal of Sino-American Affairs
- History Major Jodi Lessner contributes to the Washington Po
- History Major Shahnur Said receives 2020 Taraknath Das Prize
- History Major Lula O'Donnell writes an op-ed for the NY Daily News calling for Governor Cuomo to allocate state aid to undocumented immigrants during COVID-19