View more >Purpose - The purpose of this research is to examine whether personality and motivational driver differences exist across three generations of working Australians: Baby Boomers, Gen Xs, and Gen Ys. Design/methodology/approach - Using the Occupational Personality Questionnaire and the Motivation Questionnaire, the study examined cross-sectional differences in personality and motivational drivers across three generations. Findings - The results are not supportive of the generational stereotypes that have been pervasive in the management literature and the media. Specifically, few meaningful differences were found between the three generations. Moreover, even when differences have been observed, these have related more to age than generation. Research limitations/implications - One of the key limitations is the use of cross-sectional data. To further explore this issue, it would be interesting to undertake a longitudinal study to assess personality preferences and motivational drivers of the different generations, when the participants are at the same age or the same point in their career. Practical implications - The research emphasizes the importance of managing individuals by focusing on individual differences rather than relying on generational stereotypes, which may not be as prevalent as the existing literature suggests. Originality/value - Managers and HR professionals may find the lack of differences across generations interesting and refreshing, in contrast with the popular management literature.
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Generational differences in personality and motivation: do they exist and what are the implications for the workplace? By Melissa Wong, Elliroma Gardiner, Whitney Lang and Leah Coulon. BibTex; Full citation; Abstract. Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine whether personality and motivational driver differences exist.
The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Barnard College through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
- 1Notable alumnae
Notable alumnae[edit]
Academics and scientists[edit]
- Natalie Angier (1978), author, science journalist for the New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
- Nina Ansary (1989), historian, author, one of the six UN Women Champions for Innovation
- Jacqueline Barton (1974), Caltechchemist and MacArthur Fellows Program 'genius grant' winner
- Helen M. Berman (1964), Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University
- Joan Birman (1948), mathematician
- Hazel Bishop (1929), chemist and inventor of innovative cosmetics
- Hendrika B. Cantwell (1944), clinical professor of pediatrics, advocate for abused and neglected children
- Marian Chertow (1977), academic specializing in environmental resource management
- Frances Gardiner Davenport, historian[1]
- Carol Dweck (1967), professor of psychology at Stanford University
- Firth Haring Fabend (1959), novelist and historian
- Jessica Garretson Finch (1893), author, suffragette, founding President of Finch College
- Ellen V. Futter (1971), President of Barnard College and the American Museum of Natural History
- Lynn Garafola (1968), dance historian
- Virginia Gildersleeve (1899), Dean of Barnard College and delegate to the charter conference of the United Nations in 1945
- Karen Goldberg (1983), Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at University of Pennsylvania[2]
- Nieca Goldberg (1979), doctor at the NYU Langone Medical Center
- Rebecca Goldstein (1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist
- Monica Green (1978), medieval historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University[3]
- Maxine Greene (1938), educator, philosopher, activist; past president of the American Educational Research Association
- Patricia Greenspan (1966), professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Miriam Griffin (1950s), classical scholar at Somerville College, Oxford
- Evelyn Byrd Harrison (1941), classical scholar, archaeologist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Louise Holland (1893-1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist
- Judith Herzfeld (1967), Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at Brandeis University
- Evelyn Hu (1969), Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University
- Karla Jay (1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies
- Mirra Komarovsky (1926), sociologist; pioneer in the sociology of gender
- Mabel Lang (1939), archeologist and professor at Bryn Mawr College
- Linda Laubenstein, MD (1969), HIV/AIDS researcher
- Sylvia Lavin (1982), professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture
- Janna Levin (1988), cosmologist and Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College
- Joyce Lee Malcolm (1963), professor at Antonin Scalia Law School
- Rita Gunther McGrath (1981), business book author; Professor at Columbia Business School
- Eileen McNamara (1974), professor of journalism at Brandeis University; formerly Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The Boston Globe
- Margaret Mead (1923), anthropologist
- Elsie Clews Parsons (1896), first woman elected President of the American Anthropological Association
- Helen Perlstein Pollard (1967), archaeologist, ethnologist, Mesoamericanist scholar, professor of anthropology at MSU
- Helen Ranney (1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., be president of the Association of American Physicians, or serve as a Distinguished Physician of the Veterans Administration[4]
- Amy Richards (1992), American historian and feminist activist
- Ida Rolf (1916), biochemist, founder of Rolfing Structural Integration
- Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1956), cell biology researcher
- Louise Rosenblatt (1920s), influential literary theorist and educator
- Anna Schwartz (1933), economist
- Vivian Sobchack (1961), cultural critic
- Maya Soetoro-Ng (1993), educator; half-sister of President Barack Obama
- Barbara Lerner Spectre (1964), academic and scholar on Jewish studies
- Amy Sueyoshi (1993), historian and academic
- Merryl Tisch (1977), educator, Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents; wife of James S. Tisch, heir to the Loews Corporation
- Beatrice Warde (1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on type matters and influence upon 20th century typography[5]
- Katherine Brehme Warren (1930), geneticist and scientific editor
- Judith Weisenfeld (1986), scholar of Afro-American religion
- Irene J. Winter (1960), American art historian
Actresses and performers[edit]
Michele Collins ex host “The View “ . Host the “Michele Collins Show”
- Sissy Biggers (1979), host of Ready.. Set... Cook! 1996-2000
- Franziska Boas (1923), dancer, percussionist and dance therapist
- Clara Bryant (2007), actress
- Catherine de Castelbajac (1975), model and fashion journalist
- Jill Eikenberry (1968), actress
- Denise Faye (1996), director, choreographer, actress
- Greta Gerwig (2006), actress, screenwriter, filmmaker who won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 2018 and was nominated for two Academy Awards
- Jaime Gleicher (2010), reality star
- Lauren Graham (1988), actress, played Lorelai Gilmore on TV show Gilmore Girls
- Sprague Grayden (2000s), actress, played Judith Montgomery on Joan of Arcadia
- Alexandra Guarnaschelli (1991), celebrity chef at Butter Restaurant in New York City, television personality
- Shari Lewis (dropped out - 1950s), ventriloquist, puppeteer, television show host
- Mozhan Marnò (2001), actress, House of Cards
- Peggy McCay (1949), actress
- Kelly McCreary (2003), actress, Grey's Anatomy
- Julie Mond (2000s), actress
- Cynthia Nixon (1988), actress, played Miranda Hobbes on TV show Sex and the City
- Chelsea Peretti (2000), actress, writer for TV show Parks and Recreation
- Lee Remick (dropped out - 1953), actress
- Ariane Rinehart (2015), actress, played Liesl on The Sound of Music Live!
- Joan Rivers (1954), star comedian, TV host
- Christy Carlson Romano (2009), actress, voice of Kim Possible
- Frankie Shaw (2007), actress on Mr. Robot
- Vinessa Shaw (dropped out - 1990s), actress, 40 Days and 40 Nights
- Ebonie Smith (2007), actress, The Jeffersons
- Sasha Soreff (1994), choreographer
- Zuzanna Szadkowski (2001), actress, played Dorota on TV show Gossip Girl
- Sophia Takal (2007), actress and director
- Twyla Tharp (1963), choreographer, dancer
- Sarah Thompson (1990s), television actress
- Donna Vivino (2000), actress and singer
- Jane Wyatt (1932), actress
Architects[edit]
- Norma Merrick Sklarek (1950), first black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States
Artists[edit]
- Sana Amanat (2005), comic book creator and director at Marvel Comics, creator of Ms. Marvel
- Sarah Charlesworth (1969), photographer and conceptual artist
- Maud Morgan (1926), modern artist
- Josephine Paddock (1949), painter
- Jane Teller (1933), sculptor
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, performance artist
Athletes[edit]
- Stacey Borgman (1993), member of crew team for the United States at the 2004 Olympics[6]
- Gloria Callen (1946), swimmer
- Abby Marshall (2014), chess player; won 2009 Denker Tournament of High School Champions
- Erinn Smart (2001), fencer for the United States at the 2004 Olympics silver medalist in team foil fencing at the Beijing 2008 Olympics
- Robin Wagner (1980), figure-skating coach
Businesswomen[edit]
- Patricia Duff, founder of NGO The Common Good, ex-wife of Ronald Perelman
- Eileen Ford (1943), co-founder of Ford Models, one of the world's oldest and most influential modeling agencies
- Anjli Jain (2003), executive director of CampusEAI Consortium
- Liz Neumark (1977), founder and CEO of New York catering company Great Performances[7]
- Sheila Nevins (1960), president of HBO documentary films; winner of 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and 3 Peabody Awards
- Joan Whitney Payson, co-founder and majority of owner of the New York Mets[8]
- Azita Raji (graduated 1983), investment banker, United States Ambassador to Sweden
- Helen Rogers Reid (1903), newspaper publisher, president of the New York Herald Tribune
- Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of Martha Stewart; TV host and radio personality
- Martha Stewart (1964), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate
- Elizabeth Wiatt (1967), businesswoman in the fashion industry
Journalists[edit]
- Natalie Angier (1978), author and science writer for the New York Times; won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991
- Jami Bernard (1978), film critic for The New York Post and The New York Daily News, founder of Barncat Publishing Inc.; author whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer
- Katherine Boo (1988), recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and the MacArthur Fellows Program 'genius grant'
- Mona Charen (1979), nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author
- Liz Clarke (1983), journalist for The Washington Post, co-host of The Tony Kornheiser Show
- Herawati Diah (1941), Indonesian journalist
- Deborah Feyerick (1987), journalist and CNN correspondent
- Laura Flanders (1984), correspondent for Air America and host of 'GritTV'
- Sylvana Foa (1967), first female news director of an American television network; first Spokeswoman for Secretary General of the United Nations
- Rana Foroohar (1992), columnist for Financial Times
- Alexis Gelber (1974), former president of the Overseas Press Club
- Piri Halasz, correspondent for Time magazine and art critic
- Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for CNN; NOW on PBS; host of NPR's Latino USA
- Cathy Horyn, fashion journalist, New York Times fashion critic
- Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of The Nation
- Alex Kuczynski (1990), style reporter for The New York Times, daughter of Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
- Courtney E. Martin (2002), feminist author and editor of the feminist blog Feministing
- Judith Miller (1969), former correspondent for New York Times who reported on the story of Iraq's alleged WMD program; Aspen Strategy Group member
- Nonnie Moore (c. 1946), fashion editor at Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar and GQ[9]
- Mary Ellis Peltz, music critic, poet, and first chief editor of Opera News
- Anna Quindlen (1974), author and columnist for Newsweek who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992
- Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of Seventeen; youngest ever editor of a teen magazine
- Susan Stamberg (1959), special correspondent, NPR's Morning Edition
- Jeannette Walls (1984), gossip columnist for MSNBC; author of The Glass Castle
- Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for Fox News
- Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic
- Julie Zeilinger (2015), feminist writer and editor
Musicians, singers, and composers[edit]
- Laurie Anderson (1969), musician, NASA's first artist-in-residence and pioneer in electronic music, famous for her single 'O Superman'
- Sadie Dupuis (2011), vocalist for Speedy Ortiz
- Dorothy Papadakos (1982), concert organist, playwright, and author
- Louise Post, lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt
- Roxanne Seeman (1975), songwriter
- Jeanine Tesori (1983), Broadway composer
- Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter, 'Luka', 'Tom's Diner'
Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors[edit]
- Jamie Babbit (1993), director of But I'm a Cheerleader and Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and television shows including Gilmore Girls, Alias, and Ugly Betty
- Helen Deutsch (1927), screenwriter, Lili, National Velvet, King Solomon's Mines
- Delia Ephron (1966), author, screenwriter, playwright, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail
- Greta Gerwig (1983), actor, screenwriter, and director, Lady Bird
- Gina Gionfriddo (1991), playwright
- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (1966), screenwriter; mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal
- Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright
- Annie Leonard (1986), activist and director, The Story of Stuff
- Maria Semple (1986), screenwriter and novelist, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- Ntozake Shange (1970), playwright
- Veena Sud (1989), director of Seven Seconds
- Linda Yellen (1969), Emmy Award-winning director, Northern Lights ; producer, Playing for Time
Political, social and judicial figures[edit]
- Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1974-2017), judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Ann Aldrich (1948), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist
- Margot Botsford (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Claire C. Cecchi (1986), judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952), United States District Court judge
- Ronnie Eldridge (1952), activist, businesswoman, politician, and television host
- Chai Feldblum (1979), commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Muriel Fox (1948), public relations executive who in 1966 co-founded the National Organization for Women and led the communications effort that introduced the modern women's movement to the media of the world
- Paula Franzese (1980), professor of real property law at Seton Hall Law School
- Helen Gahagan (1924), United States House of Representatives Congresswoman from California
- E. Susan Garsh (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court
- Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H. (1970), president and CEO of CARE USA and chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
- Nancy Gertner (1967), Judge on United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- Ellen F. Golden (1968), Director, Women's Business Center, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine
- Cheryl Halpern, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Patricia McMahon Hawkins (attended), United States Ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011
- Allegra 'Happy' Haynes (1975), Denver politician who served on the Denver City Council
- Susan Herman (1968), President of the American Civil Liberties Union; Professor at Brooklyn Law School
- Marian Blank Horn (1965), judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims
- Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898, Phi Beta Kappa), United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity[10]
- Mila Jasey (1972), member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 27th Legislative District
- Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state judiciary, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Katherine Kazarian (2012), American politician and member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
- Claire R. Kelly (1987), judge on the United States Court of International Trade
- Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Wilma B. Liebman (1971), Chair, National Labor Relations Board
- Catherine McCabe (1973), acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2017 and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
- Hope Portocarrero (1950s), first lady of Nicaragua, the wife of Anastasio Somoza Debayle
- Stephanie Garcia Richard (1996), member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
- Paula Reimers (1969), Rabbi, political activist for Palestinian rights, gender equity, and religious freedom
- Rosalyn Richter (1976), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
- Madeline Singas (1988), district attorney for Nassau County, New York
- Jessica Stern (1985), policy consultant on terrorism who served on the United States National Security Council under Bill Clinton
- Anna Diggs Taylor (1954), United States District Court judge
- Kang Tongbi (1907), daughter of Kang Youwei and political activist, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Helene White (1975), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Constance H. Williams (1966), Pennsylvania state senator from 2001 to 2009; daughter of Leon Hess, founder of the Hess Corporation
- Akiko Yuge (1975), United Nations Development Programme Representative of Japan
Religious figures[edit]
- Sara Hurwitz (1999), first woman to serve as a Rabba in the Orthodox Jewish clergy
Spies[edit]
- Marion Davis Berdecio (1943), accused Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, comrade of Coplon and Wovschin
- Judith Coplon (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. Justice Department whose convictions were overturned on technicalities
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1907), involved in intelligence activities for the Soviet OGPU; founding member of the Communist Party USA
- Flora Wovschin (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, stepdaughter of Columbia professor/Soviet spyEnos Wicher
- Virginia Hall, American spy with the Special Operations Executive during WWII.
Writers[edit]
- Léonie Adams (1923), poet
- Joan Abelove (1966), writer
- Susan Mary Alsop, Washingtonian socialite and writer
- Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience
- Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer
- Gabrielle Balkan (1997), children's book author of The 50 States and Book of Bones[11]
- Lura Beam (1908), writer and educator
- Jami Bernard (1978), writer and film critic
- Fatima Bhutto (2004), Pakistani poet and writer
- Ann Brashares (1989), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Sasha Cagen (1996), writer
- Hortense Calisher (1932), writer
- Diana Chang (1949), pioneering Asian-American novelist
- Cassandra Clare (1995), author of The Mortal Instruments
- Rachel Cohn (1989), author of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Gingerbread
- Nadine Jolie Courtney (2002), Bravo TV personality Newlyweds: The First Year and author of Beauty Confidential and Confessions of a Beauty Addict
- Elise Cowen (1956), poet of the Beat Generation
- Galaxy Craze (1993), novelist
- Susan Daitch (1977), short story writer
- Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer
- Thulani Davis (1970), novelist
- Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist
- Babette Deutsch (1917), author, poet, translator and critic
- Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer
- Hallie Ephron (1969), novelist
- Cristina García (1983), author of Dreaming in Cuban
- Mary Gordon (1971), writer
- Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen (1970s), writer
- Monique Raphel High (1969), novelist
- Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Price of Salt
- Anne Hollander (1952), historian of fashion
- Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet
- Zora Neale Hurston (1928), Harlem Renaissance writer
- Elizabeth Janeway (1935), author and critic
- Joyce Johnson (1955), writer, Minor Characters
- June Jordan (1957), writer and activist
- Erica Jong (1963), writer
- Alexa Junge (1984), writer for The West Wing and Friends
- Suki Kim (1992), Guggenheim fellow; author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter and the New York Times bestselling literary nonfiction book, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- Joan Kahn (late 1930s), mysteryeditor and anthologist; also novelist and children's writer
- Lily Koppel (2003), author of The Red Leather Diary and The Astronaut Wives Club; writer for the New York Times
- Jhumpa Lahiri (1989), Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
- Jane Leavy (1974), sports biographer
- Kyle Lukoff (2006), children's book author; Storytelling of Ravens and When Aidan Became a Brother
- Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer
- Daphne Merkin (1975), literary critic, essayist, and novelist
- Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of The New Yorker
- Ottessa Moshfegh (2002), 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for Eileen
- Diana Muir (1975), writer and historian
- Alana Newhouse (1997), writer and editor of Tablet Magazine
- Alice Notley (1967), poet
- Sigrid Nunez (1972), novelist and Whiting Awards recipient
- Iris Owens (1929-2008), novelist
- Edie Parker (1940s), author; first wife of Jack Kerouac
- Helena Percas de Ponseti (1940), writer, essayist, scholar, and professor
- Chelsea Peretti (2000), writer and comedian
- Marisha Pessl (2000), author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Belva Plain (1939), writer[12]
- Jenelle Porter (1994), art curator and author
- Ariana Reines (2002), poet
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1959), writer
- Lionel Shriver (1978), novelist and 2005 Orange Prize winner
- Dean Spade (1997), writer, activist, lawyer, Assistant Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law
- Camilla Trinchieri, writer
- Joan Vollmer (1943), Beat poet, partner of William S. Burroughs
- Cecily Wong (2010), writer
- Julie Zeilinger (2015), blogger and feminist writer
Fictional alumnae[edit]
- In the 1988 Woody Allen film Another Woman, Gena Rowland's character is a philosophy professor at Barnard.
- In the 1992 Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives, Juliette Lewis' character, Rain, is a Barnard student.
- In the 2005 Sigrid Nunez novel The Last of Her Kind, heroines Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshman roommates at Barnard.
- In the 2007 Noah Baumbach film Margot at the Wedding, Nicole Kidman's character, a novelist, is a Barnard graduate.
- In the television seriesMad Men, the character Rachel Menken is a Barnard graduate.
- In the 2015 film Mistress America, the lead character Tracy Fishko is a freshman at Barnard.
- In season 4 of the television series BoJack Horseman, it is mentioned that the title character's mother, Beatrice, attended Barnard.
- In the 2017 Greta Gerwig film Ladybird, the character based on Gerwig (a Barnard alum) dreams of going to Barnard and at the end discovers she's been accepted and moves to NYC to attend.
- In the 2018 Mira T. Lee novel Everything Here is Beautiful, the narrator talks about going to Barnard and reuniting there with one of her childhood friends from Tennessee.
Notable faculty[edit]
- Nadia Abu El Haj, anthropologist
- Robert Antoni, Commonwealth Writers Prize–winning author
- Randall Balmer, author and historian of American religion
- Dave Bayer, mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film A Beautiful Mind; one of few holders of an Erdős-Bacon number
- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
- Jenny Boylan, writer
- Frank Brady, leading figure in international chess
- Harriet Brooks, physicist
- Tina Campt, Africana and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Demetrios James Caraley, Editor of the Political Science Quarterly; President of the Academy of Political Science
- Elizabeth Castelli, Professor Of Religion
- John Cheever (1956–1957), Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and short story writer
- Yvette Christianse, poet, librettist
- Dennis Dalton (1969–2008), political scientist; renowned nonviolence proponent; scholar of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[13]
- Rosalyn Deutsche, art historian, author, and art critic
- Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004), zoologist
- Mortimer Lamson Earle, classicist
- Mary Gordon, writer
- Elizabeth Hardwick, writer; co-founder of The New York Review of Books; wife of Robert Lowell[14]
- Ken Hechler, U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
- Janet Jakobsen, religion and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Rebecca Jordan-Young, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, author of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
- Charles Knapp, Ph.D., philologist and classical scholar
- Janna Levin, physicist
- David Macklovitch, musician
- Perry Mehrling, economic historian
- Gabriela Mistral, first Latin American Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Samuel Alfred Mitchell, astronomer
- Raymond Moley (1923–1933), proponent and later critic of the New Deal
- Frederick Neuhouser, philosopher
- Sigrid Nunez, novelist
- Elaine Pagels (1970–1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity
- Alan F. Segal, ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity; author of Life after Death, and Paul the Convert
- Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist
- Dolph Sweet, actor
- Ashley Tuttle, former principal dancer at ABT; Tony-nominated actress
- Elie Wiesel (1997–1999), Nobel Peace Prize–winning writer and activist
Recipients of the Medal of Distinction[edit]
The Barnard Medal of Distinction is the College's highest honor.[15]
1977
1978
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger '14
1979
- Helen Gahagan Douglas '24
- Eleanor Thomas Elliott '48
1980
- Mary Dublin Keyserling '3
- Alan Pifer
- Henriette H. Swope '25
1981
- Elizabeth Janeway '35
1982
- Twyla Tharp '63
1983
- Mirra Komarovsky '26
1984
- Annette Kar Baxter '47 (posthumous)
- Joseph G. Brennan[16]
- Anna Hill Johnstone '34
1985
- Elizabeth Man Sarcka '17[17]
1986
- Frances Lehman Loeb[18]
- Helen M. Ranney '41[4]
1987
- Judith Kaye '58
- Sally Falk Moore '43
1988
- Augusta Souza Kappner '66
- Ntozake Shange '70
1989
- Bernice Segal (posthumous)[19]
1990
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- Jacqueline Barton '74
- Jean Blackwell Hutson '35
- Julie V. Marsteller '69[20]
1991
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '50
- Tisa Chang '63
- Mamphele Ramphele, delivered the 2002 Commencement address
1992
- Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen '40[21]
1993
- Arthur Ashe (posthumous)
- Elizabeth B. Davis '41
- Helene Lois Kaplan '53
1994
- Ellen V. Futter '71
- Barbara Stoler Miller '62 (posthumous)[22]
1995
- Rosemary Park Anastos
1996
1997
1998
1999
- William T. Golden
2000
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, delivered the 2000 Commencement address
- Kathie L. Olson
2001
- Susan Hendrickson
- Maxine Greene '38
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, delivered the 2001 Commencement address
- Barbara Novak '50[23]
2003
- Judith Miller '69, delivered the Commencement address
2004
2005
2006
- Francine du Plessix Gray '52
2007
- Muriel Petioni[24]
2008
- Thelma C. Davidson Adair
- Michael Bloomberg, delivered the 2008 Commencement address
2009
- Hillary Clinton, delivered the 2009 Commencement address[25]
- Kay Murray[26]
- Irene J. Winter '60
2010
- Meryl Streep, delivered the 2010 Commencement address
2011
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, delivered the 2011 Commencement address
2012
- Barack Obama, President of the United States, delivered the 2012 Commencement address
- Sally Chapman, Barnard Professor of Chemistry
- Helene D. Gayle '76, President and CEO of CARE, USA
- Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry
2013
- Leymah Gbowee, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, delivered the 2013 Commencement address
- Jimmie Briggs, founder of the Man Up campaign
- Elizabeth Diller, architect and designer of the High Line
- Lena Dunham, creator, director, writer and star of the HBO series Girls
2014[27]
- Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation
- Mahzarin Banaji, social psychologist and professor of social ethics at Harvard University
- Ursula Burns, chair and chief executive officer of Xerox
- Patti Smith, musician, poet, and artist
2015[28]
- Samantha Power, academic and journalist
- Simi Linton, expert on disability and the arts[29]
- Nadia Lopez, principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy
- Diana Nyad, long-distance swimmer and author
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