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Bard College Faculty M. Gessen and Alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 Win Pulitzer Prizes

This year’s Pulitzer Prize recipients will constitute the 109th class of Pulitzer Prize winners.

Bard College Faculty M. Gessen and Alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 Win Pulitzer Prizes

L–R: M. Gessen, distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, and Bard alumna Juliana Spahr ’88.

M. Gessen, distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, and Bard alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer committee awarded Gessen a prize in Opinion Writing for their “illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile.” Spahr was awarded a prize in Poetry for Ars Poeticas, a poetry collection examining her relationship to her art form, community, and politics. This year’s Pulitzer Prize recipients will constitute the 109th class of Pulitzer Prize winners.

The Pulitzer Prize in Opinion Writing is awarded for distinguished editorials, columns or other written commentary containing well-reasoned and compelling arguments on topics of public interest, whether originally researched and reported or informed by personal experience. Gessen’s series of New York Times Opinion articles, including “This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well,” “How to be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things,” and “The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump,” demonstrate clarity, moral purpose, sound logic, engaging prose, and power to influence public opinion.

The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, conferred for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, recognizes Spahr’s collection of lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populism. “In both her poetry and her academic work, Spahr takes as her central concern the relationship between literature and the state,” writes the New York Times about Ars Poeticas. “Accordingly, in this book, her sixth collection of poems, she writes about everything from climate change to the rise of the alt-right.”

M. Gessen is a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College and an Opinion columnist for the New York Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024, and are the author of 11 non-fiction books, including most recently Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, June 2020); The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, a 2015 award-winning account of the Boston Marathon bombers; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, a 2012 portrait of the Russian leader that Foreign Affairs said, “shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin’s story.” They are the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship, the John Chancellor Award, the Hitchens Prize, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. After more than twenty years as a journalist and editor in Moscow, Gessen has been living in New York since 2013.

Juliana Spahr ’88 is a poet and scholar whose interests revolve around questions of transformation, language, and ecology. Spahr’s work crosses a variety of American landscapes, from the disappearing beaches of Hawaii to the small town of her Appalachian childhood. Her poems have focused on reading as a “communal, democratic, and open processm,” and her many books of poetry include That Winter the Wolf Came (2015); Well Then There Now (2011); The Transformation (2007); This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005); Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (2003); and Response (1996), which won a National Poetry Series Award. Spahr has also edited several volumes of essays and poetry, including Writing from the New Coast: Technique (1993); A Poetics of Criticism (1994); American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002), with Claudia Rankine; and Poetry and Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (2006). Spahr won the 2009 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. The prize, presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library, is given to US poets “whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.” Spahr has taught at Siena College and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is currently an associate professor of English at Mills College.

Chang Chavkin Center Awarded $218,750 Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Grant

The three-year grant will support a partnership between the Chang Chavkin Center and the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University.

Chang Chavkin Center Awarded $218,750 Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Grant

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L–R: Max Botstein, Roosevelt Montás, and Jessica Lee. Photo by Rachel Crittenden

The Chang Chavkin Center for Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College has been awarded a grant from the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation. The three-year grant, in the amount of $218,750, will support a partnership between the Chang Chavkin Center and the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University. The Chang Chavkin Center, founded in 2026, brings together faculty and programs committed to a shared vision of liberal education and works to promote this vision at institutions across the country. Freedom and Citizenship introduces dedicated low-income and first-generation high school seniors to college-level work in the humanities and prepares them for lives of active, informed citizenship.

“Our programs invite students into sustained conversations about freedom, justice, and equality by engaging directly with the powerful ideas and enduring questions that shape civic life. We cannot allow this kind of education to be restricted only to those who can afford it,” said Jessica Lee, associate director of the Chang Chavkin Center. “This grant ensures that motivated students can participate regardless of their financial circumstances.”

Founded in 2009 by Columbia’s Center for American Studies, Freedom and Citizenship is the original and flagship program of Knowledge for Freedom (KFF), a network of campus programs dedicated to introducing high school students to the personally transformative power of liberal education. Through rigorous study of transformative texts, community-based civic projects, and sustained college mentorship, KFF programs prepare students for a free and reflective life. The Chang Chavkin Center at Bard College now serves as the institutional home of Knowledge for Freedom, supporting the growth and long-term sustainability of more than 30 programs nationwide.

The grant will provide stipends to low-income students in Freedom and Citizenship, removing the economic barriers that might otherwise prevent them from participating in the program’s residential summer seminar and year-round civic leadership and college access curriculum. By ensuring that financial need is not an obstacle to participation, the grant extends the program's reach to the students who stand to benefit the most.

The award also reflects a deepening relationship between the Chang Chavkin Center and Freedom and Citizenship, as they prepare to launch a formal Columbia-Bard partnership program. The partnership will secure leadership continuity, broaden student experiences by drawing on the distinct strengths of both campuses, and stabilize the program through coordinated fundraising. The partnership will also offer students the combination of both a horizon-broadening residential experience at a small liberal arts college, and accessible year-round programming at a major urban research university. By exposing students to contrasting academic settings, the goal of this partnership is to enrich students’ understanding of college life. These changes aim to ensure that Freedom and Citizenship not only endures, but is able to offer ever more robust support for the next generation of participants.

Since its inception in 1929, the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation has championed and supported nonprofit organizations dedicated to the holistic development of underserved children and youth. The foundation engages in grant partnerships in the NYC-Metro area that seek to transform systems and pathways of opportunity so that young people most impacted by social, racial, and economic injustice can live choice-filled lives.

Post Date: 05-06-2026

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Bard Athletics and Hannah Arendt Center Held Annual Spring Cleanup

Bard Athletics and Hannah Arendt Center Held Annual Spring Cleanup

This April, Bard Athletics partnered with the Hannah Arendt Center for their annual spring cleanup, an initiative now in its second year that brought together more than 70 student athletes, coaches, and staff, marking a record-breaking day of service and reinforcing a shared commitment to caring for the campus community. “Seeing the turnout and dedication our student athletes showed in this shared mission reflected how much we care about the community and our commitment to improving the quality for incoming students,” said Mahlia Slaiby ’27, women’s soccer student athlete and president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee at Bard.

Pearllan Cipriano, Bard sports information director, wrote in an article for Clean Earth Challenge that over a span of two hours, volunteers spread across campus, collecting litter and working side-by-side in a unified effort to enhance Bard’s natural beauty. “In just the second year of this student-driven campus cleanup, I’m inspired by the genuine enthusiasm of our students, staff, and faculty,” said head men’s soccer coach and one of the spearhead leaders of the initiative, TJ Kostecky. “Their shared commitment reflects a deep pride in our community and a collective responsibility to care for a truly special place. When people come together with purpose, even small actions create lasting impact.”

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Post Date: 05-06-2026
Bard Faculty and CCS Alumnae Featuring in the Venice Biennale

Bard Faculty and CCS Alumnae Featuring in the Venice Biennale

L–R: . Walid Raad, professor of photography, and Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art.

The 2026 Venice Biennale, the renowned international cultural exhibition, will feature works by Bard faculty members and Center for Curatorial Studies alumnae. Walid Raad, professor of photography at Bard, is featured in the main exhibition, In Minor Keys, and will also participate in two mixed media installations in the Arsenale and in the Giardini, Postscript to the Arabic Edition and Far from quieting. Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard, and Ruba Katrib CCS ’07 are cocurators of the show Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people) in the National Pavilion of Qatar in the Giardini. Additionally, Josefina Barcia CCS ’24 is curating the Argentine Pavilion, Do Tuong Linh CCS ’25 is curating the Vietnamese Pavilion, and Dermis León CCS ’01 is cocurating the Chilean Pavilion.

The Venice Biennale is an international arts and cultural exhibition which has been hosted every two years in Venice, Italy, since 1895. Its 61st International Art Exhibition, Biennale Arte 2026, runs from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

Post Date: 05-05-2026
Bard NYC Students Visit Behind the Scenes at The View and The Daily Show

Bard NYC Students Visit Behind the Scenes at The View and The Daily Show

Students at Bard NYC recently attended live tapings of both The Daily Show and The View. Each semester, Steven Couras and Alec Qualitza of the Bard NYC Student Life Office organize a wide range of programs that build community within the residence hall and connect students to the local area. The office plans opportunities for students to attend live tapings of major television programs across New York City, as well as other trips which are designed to help students take full advantage of the city’s rich media landscape, spanning television, film, fashion, music, and the arts, while they study, intern, and live in NYC.

“Attending the live taping of The View was an incredible experience,” said Gabrielle Erawoc, who is attending the Bard NYC program for the spring semester. “As a media minor, I loved watching the stage managers coordinate the whole show. From the lighting to the camera operators, it was a joy watching the coordination and synchronization of the media production. Aside from the exceptional production, it was a breath of fresh air to hear the panel of amazing, diverse women educate the audience on current politics. Overall, it was a fulfilling morning, and it was special to share it with my Bard NYC peers.”

These opportunities allow students to experience being part of a live studio audience and to gain an understanding of what goes into producing major shows. From camera work to stage management, to security and audience coordination, participating Bard NYC students witness firsthand how these productions come to life behind the scenes.

Bard NYC offers unique academic programs for students eager to gain practical work experience in their field of interest in New York City. Students get a head start on their transition from college to career through a transformative semester, year-long, or summer experience, which combines interdisciplinary coursework, a professional internship, and career exploration in one of the most exciting, diverse, and innovative places on Earth.

Post Date: 05-05-2026
2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty Members

2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty Members

L–R: Jacqueline Goss and and Joseph Luzzi.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College faculty members Jacqueline Goss, professor of film and electronic arts, and Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, Goss and Luzzi were awarded in recognition of their career achievement and exceptional promise. Guggenheim fellowships were also awarded to James Hoff, Steve Reinke, and Kenneth Tam, who will teach this upcoming summer at Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the Guggenheim Foundation. “As the Foundation enters its second century and looks to the future, I feel confident that this new class of 223 individuals will do bold and inspiring work, undaunted by the challenges ahead. We are honored to support their visionary contributions.”

Goss’s fellowship will support the development of an experimental narrative film project that engages with larger questions of artistic life, visibility, and the uneven recognition of artists and artistic forms, explored within the social and cultural landscape of New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During Luzzi’s fellowship year, he will work on The Lives of Beatrice: The Muse Who Made Us Modern, a book of narrative nonfiction that traces the remarkable afterlife of Dante's great muse, Beatrice Portinari, across seven centuries of art, literature, and culture. Beginning with a biography of Beatrice as a historical woman in late thirteenth-century Florence, the book follows her transformation into one of the most frequently reimagined figures in the Western imagination, from Petrarch and Cervantes to the Pre-Raphaelites and into contemporary pop culture. Ultimately, Luzzi’s project asks what each era's reinvention of Beatrice reveals, not only about the woman herself, but about the cultures that have continually returned to her.

Goss, Luzzi, Hoff, Reinke, and Tam are among 223 distinguished individuals working across 55 disciplines appointed to the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.” Since its inception, the foundation has granted nearly $450 million in Fellowships to over 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.

Jacqueline Goss is an experimental filmmaker whose work examines the human impulse to quantify and control even the most ineffable experiences and environments. Using diverse methods and tools, her work explores the ways vanity, fear, loneliness and desire seep into scientific experimentation, language, mapping, and political systems. Her projects include an animated documentary on the effects of biometric surveillance on migrants’ senses of self (Stranger Comes To Town), a film enacting the quotidian gestures of a weather observer on the windiest mountain in the world (The Observers), and a theoretical musical about Wilhelm Reich (OR119). Over the last 25 years, these works and others have shown at film festivals worldwide including the London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, and Faculdade de Belas Artes. Goss’s moving image work has also screened at art centers, galleries, and museums including MOMA, the Natural History Museum in New York, Eyebeam Atelier, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Center for the Arts, Pacific Film Archive, Kunsthall Aarhus, UnionDocs, Microscope Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Arsenal, Piano Nobile, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Her films, videos, and animations have been covered in various journals and newspapers including The Brooklyn Rail, the New York Times, Chicago Reader, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Four Columns, Film Comment, BOMB, Art Forum, Cinemascope, Sage Journals, and Millenium Film Journal.

Joseph Luzzi received his PhD from Yale University. He is the author of nine books, including his recent The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood (Norton, 2025), one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025. His other books include Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance (Norton, 2022), a New Yorker Best Books of 2022 selection and shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award; A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), a finalist for the international prize “The Bridge Book” Award; and My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, amongst others. Luzzi’s essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, TLS, Bookforum, and American Scholar, among others, and his scholarly writing has appeared in PMLA, Modern Language Notes, Modern Language Quarterly, Raritan, Italica, and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.

Post Date: 04-28-2026
Bard College Awarded $1.35 Million Grant in Support of Humanities Curricular Innovation Project

Bard College Awarded $1.35 Million Grant in Support of Humanities Curricular Innovation Project

Clockwise from top left: Miles V. Rodríguez, Nabanjan Maitra, Robert Cioffi, and Valentina A. Grasso.

Bard College is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1.35 Million from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative, which supports newly developed curricula that instruct students in methods of humanities practice and demonstrate those methods’ relevance to broader social justice pursuits. The grant will fund Bard’s project, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” which responds to the rise of unreliable digital, social, and other media, heightened by the proliferation of AI-generated content, which not only threatens our ability to discern fact from fiction but confounds our claims to a shared humanity. Bard was previously a recipient of a Humanities for All Times grant in 2021, the year the initiative was launched, for the “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck” project led by Christian Ayne Crouch, dean of graduate studies and professor of history and American and Indigenous Studies. Participation in the competition is by invitation only and winning institutions are not invited to a subsequent round, which means Bard has won awards for both of the periods in which it was eligible.

“The Uses and Abuses of History” aims to offer students the tools to exercise judgement, to act, and to guard against the erasure of history in a world that is filled with conflicting and often false narratives. The project has three central curricular goals: first, to provide an institutional structure to unite students, staff, and scholars engaged in humanistic inquiry from across Bard College; second, to strengthen students’ habits of attention and abilities to read and think critically and contextually; and third, to make use of the College’s growing collection of archives to make archival research and praxis central to its curriculum. To accomplish these goals and enhance humanities education at Bard, the project will deploy curricular development, a workshop series, and a regranting program including summer research opportunities. The final year of the grant will culminate in an exhibition featuring a broad range of artifacts underscoring the crucial role played by material culture in the shaping of historical narratives.

The principal investigator team for “The Uses and Abuses of History” includes four Bard faculty members: the principal investigator, Associate Professor of History and Latin American and Iberian Studies Miles V. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Nabanjan Maitra, Associate Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi, and Assistant Professor of Medieval History Valentina A. Grasso. A wider advisory council of faculty and administrators will help guide the project.

“The project team and I are honored to take part in the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times Initiative at Bard College,” said Rodríguez. “We are thrilled to contribute to Bard’s historical commitment to curricular and pedagogical creativity and innovation. While we recognize that the spread of false information is nothing new under the sun, we consider ourselves fortunate to respond to its present permutations with a robust collaborative project in service to our students and intellectual community.”

The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative was established in 2021 to support the development of new humanities-based curricular and community projects at liberal arts colleges across the United States.

Post Date: 04-23-2026
M. Gessen Produces New Podcast Series, The Idiot, with Serial Team

M. Gessen Produces New Podcast Series, The Idiot, with Serial Team

M. Gessen.

M. Gessen, distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, is known for many things: their incisive writing, their work on Kronika and other projects championing free speech, and now, for The Idiot, a five-part audio series produced with Serial Productions. Focusing on their “least favorite” cousin Allen, The Idiot turns Gessen’s focus to the familial, tracing Allen’s marriage, life, and how he came to unwittingly speak to the FBI. Lit Hub praises the series, which “appeals on the strength of its vulnerability,” with The Times calling the story “worthy of a Jonathan Franzen novel.”

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Post Date: 04-22-2026

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Luwei Wang, Visiting Lecturer of Chinese Literature, Language, and Culture
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Luwei Wang is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, visual studies, and media studies. She specializes in contemporary Chinese visual culture, with particular attention to the intersections of digital media, documentary and art practices, and theorizations of visuality. She is currently working on her book project titled Compound Eyes: Critical Modes of Seeing in Twenty-first Century Chinese Independent Documentary and Art, which explores how practitioners of independent documentary and experimental art in China use digital media to critically reimagine modes of seeing by appropriating machinic vision to confront fractured realities, challenge dominant epistemologies, and open new possibilities for ethical engagement. Her articles are forthcoming in Camera Obscura and the edited volume of Speculative Fiction from the Sinophone.

BA, Dalian University of Foreign Languages; MA, Washington University in St. Louis; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin Madison.

Sophia Ying Wang, Faculty in Chinese Language & Literature
Department(s): Simon's Rock at Bard College
Office: Massena East Wing, 383
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Rupali Warke, Visiting Assistant Professor for the Bard Prison Initiative, BPI
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Professor Warke’s research and teaching interests in South Asian history include colonialism, gender, political economy, contemporary politics, modern vernacular and print culture, cinema, and popular culture. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin addressed “Secluded Capital: Baizabai Shinde and the Transnational Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century South Asia.” Academic presentations and guest talks at various conferences and symposia covered subjects such as “Pilgrimage as a Mode of Political Diplomacy”; “Indian-American Immigrants Post 1965: Moteliers and IT Professionals”: and the significance of Tarabai Shinde in Gender History. Works in progress include “Royal Power and a Piece of Bread: Sufi Discipleship and Dargah Worship in the Maratha Empire,” an article for South Asian Studies; and “Baizabai (1784–1863): Queen-Regent and the Transnational Opium Trade.” Teaching assistantships at the University of Texas included the courses An Introduction to Asian American History; The United States 1492–1865; and The United States since 1865.

BA, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai; MA, MPhil, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; PhD, University of Texas at Austin. At Bard: 2021–23.

Robert Warner, Visiting Artist in Residence
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Hilton M. Weiss, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; David and Rosalie Rose Research Professor
Office: Hegeman Science Hall
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Phone: 845-876-5135
Website: https://chemistry.bard.edu
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ScB, Brown University; MS, University of Vermont; PhD, Rutgers University. At Bard: 1961–2008.

Julia Weist, Visiting Artist in Residence, Studio Arts
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Julia Weist is a visual artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jewish Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (acquisition in progress) among others. Her work explores how the process of record-keeping reveals social truths around shared systems of knowledge and power. Recent exhibitions include Governing Body, Rachel Uffner Gallery, which focused on the relationship between artists and government; ARCA, in collaboration with Cuban artist Nestor Siré, at galleries in Havana and New York; and Parbunkells, 83 Pitt Street, New York. Public artworks include Campaign (Times Square) and Public Record, both in New York City; and View-Through, Miami. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at venues throughout the United States and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Madrid, Taiwan, St. Louis, Antwerp, and Chicago. Commissions, grants, and residencies from Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Ox-Bow; City of New York Department of Records and Information Services; New York State Council on the Arts/Wave Farm; Jerome Foundation Fellowship at the Queens Museum; and many others. Weist’s writing has appeared in publications such as Triple Canopy, Frieze, Rhizome, Art in America, BOMB, and the artist book Sexy Librarian: A Novel, Critical Edition. She and her work have been the subject of articles in, among others, Artnet (“Artist Julia Weist Is Protesting the R Rating of Her New Film by Advertising the Project on a Times Square Billboard”); Document Journal (“Julia Weist’s Governing Body Questions What We Deem Indecent in the Scope of Mainstream Cinema”); Hyperallergic (“Julia Weist’s Public Record Probes the Impact of Artists on Cities”); Art in America (“Julia Weist Transforms New York City’s Archival Records into Artworks That Live in Digital Public Space”); and the New York Times (“Artists as ‘Creative Problem-Solvers’ at City Agencies”). She previously taught at Pratt Institute, and has served as MFA studio adviser at the Maine College of Art & Design. Weist also served as board member of Shandaken Projects from 2012 to 2021.

BFA, Cooper Union School of Art; MLIS, Pratt Institute. At Bard: Spring 2023.

Donna Welton, Diplomat in Residence

Robert Weston, Continuing Associate Professor of Humanities; Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Office: Albee, 202
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Robert Weston’s research interests include the European Enlightenment, the history of education, social mediation, visual criticism, animality, and posthumanism; his teaching interests range from women’s, lesbian, gay, and trans rights, Queer Theory, and histories of sexuality, to philosophical anthropology, gift theory, and post-structuralism. Recipient of DAAD Research Fellowship (2000–01); Günther-Findel Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek (2004–05); Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University (2005); and Ottaway International Fellowship, Al-Quds Bard, Palestine (2009-2012). At Al-Quds, he served as director of faculty and curricular development (2009–10); assistant dean (2010–11); and associate academic dean (2011–12). At Bard, Professor Weston has served as codirector of First-Year Seminar (2013–16) and coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2008–09; 2012– ). He was coeditor of Convolution: Journal of Experimental Criticism (2010–11) and has published in Semiotext(e), Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, and n/or. His work has been shown at New York’s Guggenheim Museum (2009) and Baxter Street Gallery (2015).

BA, University of Florida; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2005.

Emily White, Field Station Associate Director and Research Associate
Department(s): Ecology Field Station
Office: Bard College Field Station, Field Station, Room 211
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Emily White is an environmental chemist with expertise in aquatic biogeochemistry, water quality analysis, and environmental monitoring. She previously taught at Sewanee: The University of the South and Colby College and served as a postdoctoral scientist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. White has extensive fieldwork experience, including an oceanographic research cruise in Antarctica. Her work has been published in Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, Aquatic Science, Marine Chemistry, and other scholarly journals.

At Bard, White has taught Citizen Science and courses on drinking water treatment, methods of environmental analysis, environmental monitoring, climate change, and introductory chemistry. She is involved in efforts to monitor water quality in the Saw Kill and is working with the Office of Sustainability on the Annandale Dam Micro-Hydropower Project.

BS, Tufts University; MS, The Ohio State University; PhD, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. At Bard since 2019.

Thomas Wild, Professor of German; Program Director, German Studies; Research Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities
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M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich. Also studied at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, Vanderbilt University, and Oberlin College, and recently served as Alexander von Humboldt / Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century German literature and film; the political dimensions of culture, art, and thought; Hannah Arendt; and contemporary developments in German media and society after 1989. Among his publications are a monograph on Arendtï¿½s relationships with key postwar German writers; an intellectual biography of Arendt; and a edition of poetry by Thomas Brasch. He coedited Arendtï¿½s conversations and correspondence with the eminent German historian and political essayist Joachim Fest. He is also a literary critic and cultural correspondent for the German dailies Sï¿½ddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel. At Bard since 2012.

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