EUS Faculty

Education
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., Temple University

Teaching Fields
Ecological Economics, Geoclassical Economics, Urban Economics, Micro- and Macroeconomic Theory, Mathematical Economics, History of Economic Thought

Research Interests
Environmental and natural resource economics, ecological economocs, geoclassical economic, economics of food and agriculture, economic thought, distribution and economic justice, economic anthropology, economic theory of property, public sector economics, economics of taxes and subsidies, public choice.

Selected Papers and Publications

• “Clark: Apostle of Two-factor Economics,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Supplement, Vol. 62, no. 5 (November 2003), pp. 353–93
• “Henry George on Property Rights: Reply to John Pullen,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 60, no. 2 (April 2001), pp. 565–79

Susan Fox Rogers is the author of My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell University Press). In this work she explores the Hudson River from the perspective of her kayak, and weaves in the natural and built history of this region, as well as the story of her family. This book grew out of the EUS course she teaches “Reading and Writing the Hudson.” All of her writing has to do with place, and the natural world. She is the editor of twelve book anthologies including Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Seal Press), Going Alone: Women’s Adventures in the Wild (Seal Press), and Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel (Sasquatch Books). She compiled Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Traveler’s Tales) while on a National Science Foundation grant for writers in Antarctica. She has taught at Bard College since 2001, teaching First Year Seminar, a range of creative nonfiction workshops, and a nature writing class.

Education:
B. A., Oberlin College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center
Honors and Awards:
Library Research Grant, Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities (2000), John Rewald Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (1997-99)
Publications:
Articles in journals Springerin (Vienna), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architecture + Ideas, Trans., Art Nexus (Bogotà, Colombia), Arconoticias (Madrid)
Professional:
Has taught at Columbia University, Pratt Institute of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, Hunter College

Felicia Keesing is a biologist who studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Much of her recent work focuses on how species diversity influences the probability that humans and other animals will be exposed to infectious diseases. In addition, she has worked in Kenya for 15 years studying how the disappearance of elephants, giraffes, zebras, and other large mammals influences the way African savannas function. Keesing has published over 50 research articles and book chapters, and has received grant support from the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. In 2000, she received a United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Clinton. She serves on the national steering committee for the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bruce Robertson is a conservation ecologist. His research focuses on questions that address important conservation issues, but that also provide fundamental insights into ecological theory. Broadly speaking, he investigates the direct and indirect impacts of human activities on biodiversity, species persistence and species interactions with special emphasis on how rapidly changing environments may disrupt evolved relationships and trigger maladaptation. He is especially interested in cases in which novel environments trigger animals to actually prefer to make inappropriate, detrimental and often dangerous decisions. These scenarios are known as evolutionary traps. Traps are an emerging conservation problem that can contribute population declines in species of concern. He collaborates extensively on a variety of projects including a study of the impact of new forms of pollution (polarized light pollution) on aquatic insects, and research investigating how to grow next generation bioenergy crops that facilitate the conservation of biodiversity. Trained as an ornithologist, Bruce increasingly uses arthropods, mammals and plants as study organisms.

B.A., Haifa University, Israel; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Specializes in oceanography, climatology, geophysics. Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Science and Argonne National Laboratory (2002–07); principal investigator, Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago (2001–03); assistant scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1998–99). Assistant professor, University of Chicago (1999–07). Author, Geophysical Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2008). Faculty, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College. At Bard since 2008.

Research Interests: climate dynamics; climate variability; climate change; agricultural environmental science; simple population models

Teaching Interests: data analysis; global/regional/local climate change; agricultural environmental efficiency and metrics thereof

Recent publications

New book

Eshel, G., 2011: Spatiotemporal Data Analysis, Princeton University Press, 338 pp., Dec. 2011,ISBN: 9781400840632, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9637.html

Recently published or in review

Eshel, G., A. Shepon, T. Israeli and R. Milo, 2012: Partitioning United States Feed production. Environmental Costs among Livestock Categories, Environmental Science & Technology, submitted.

Collins, K. and Eshel, G., 2012: Greenhouse gas inventory of Hudson Valley organic tomato production, J. Sust. Ag., submitted.

Shepon A., G. Eshel, T. Israeli and R. Milo, 2012: EcoTime - An intuitive quantitative sustainability indicator utilizing a time metric, Ecological Indicators, 24, 240-245, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.06.018, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X1200249X.

Eshel, G., 2010: A Geophysical Foundation for Alternative Farm Policy, Environmental Science & Technology, 44(10), 3651-3655 (the issue’s Cover Feature Article, highlighted in a perspective piece by Chief Editor Gentleman’s commentary entitled Verdant Models).

Eshel, G., P. A. Martin and E. E. Bowen, 2010: Land Use and Reactive Nitrogen Discharge: Effects of Dietary Choices, Earth Interactions, 14, paper 21, 1-15.

Eshel, G. and P. A. Martin, 2009: Geophysics and nutritional science: Toward a novel, unified, paradigm. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89, 1710S-1716S.

Mark H. Lytle, Bard College, Lyford and Helen Grey Edwards Professor of Historical Studies and Chair: Program in Environmental and Urban Studies.

Mark Lytle is currently among those historians seeking to develop the field of “Environmental Diplomacy.” The author of The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, he began his career as a student of American relations with Iran and the role of oil in postwar foreign policy. Since then in his books America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon and The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement, he has focused on the history of the 1960s and environmentalism. His current projects include a history of American consumerism since World War II and a geological history, currently titled Earth: A Love Story. His interest in history education inspired the writing with James West Davidson of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection now in its sixth edition. In addition to his long tenure at Bard, he has taught at Yale, Vassar, and as the Mary Ball Washington Professor at University College Dublin.

Books of potential interest:

America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (Oxford)

The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement

With James West Davidson: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (McGraw-Hill)  

A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Awarded fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies (1997–98); Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2002); Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2004); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2007). Has lectured at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Harvard University, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania. Articles published in The Yivo Encyclopedia of the Jews in Eastern Europe; S. Ansky at the Turn of the Century; The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies; Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now. Visiting assistant professor of Jewish history/Jewish studies, Georgetown University (2000– ). At Bard since 2003.

B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University. Awards include Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Grant (1998–99); Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Research Grant (1998–99). Author, Drifting Rhinos and Fluid Properties: The Turn to Wildlife Production in Zimbabwe (Journal of Agrarian Change); coeditor, Zimbabwe: The Politics of Crisis and the Crisis of Politics. Teaching experience at Georgetown University (2001–02), Yale University, Quinnipiac University. At Bard since 2003.

AB, Hamilton College, with year abroad at University of Paris; MA, University of Cincinnati; PhD, Albany University

Archaeological projects at Bard, with students as technicians, average once a year as cultural resource investigations, a part of the College’s environmental impact assessment in advance of its major ground disturbances for buildings, pavings, etc. Lindner designs exhibits about this work, such as the ‘Gardener’s Lodge’ panel on Blithewood Avenue, ‘Bardaeology’ in the upstairs Hegeman hallway, and rotating displays at the Library. The Bard Lands have become the most archaeologically known terrain in this region of New York. They figure prominently in a 2011 chapter by Lindner in The Environmental History of the Hudson Valley, a book published by State University of New York press. A result of his long-term study for the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation is the panel Archaeology of Fishing along the Estuary on the Greenway Trail at the edge of Tivoli South Bay. It is also curated as an online exhibit on the website: inside.bard.edu/archaeology. Its poster, developed in conjunction with the Mohican studies group of the Native American Institute affiliated with the New York State Museum, is used in the local schools, with curricula Lindner designed with teachers to foster stewardship of archaeological sites. Lindner’s fall lab science course ‘Field Methods in Environmental Archaeology’ provides Bard students experience in Cultural Resource Management [CRM], the field in which most current practitioners work. His spring humanities course ‘Historical Archaeology’ has its focus on adaptations in the Bard area over the last three centuries, particularly in regard to the first substantial German American settlement on this continent. Its results are the present center frame of the website above. A collaborative project with the Germantown history department and library has stimulated community awareness, with the result of local grant-funded summer field schools in historical archaeology and multiple exhibits to display discoveries. A similar project with the Black History Committee of the Dutchess County Historical Society has explored Guineatown in Hyde Park, an African American community around 200 years ago. A summary of its findings will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming book Race in the Northeast: Archaeological Studies of Racialization, Identity, and Memory to be published by the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lindner served as president of the New York Archaeological Council, the state’s professional organization that mediates the practice of CRM within the NYS Environmental Quality Review Act. He led the local site preservation NGO, Hudson River Heritage, in its long-term effort to protect against inappropriate development near the waterfront for 16 miles with Bard at its center. He has worked as consultant for local citizen groups; municipalities, such as the towns of Rhinebeck and Pine Plains; and the National Park Service at the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park.