Beatrice Stern Birch
English Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo. Has taught at Cayey University College, University of Puerto Rico; Fordham University College at Lincoln Center; Iona College, Cornell University; and Solomon Schechter, Horace Greeley, and Ardsley High Schools, all in New York. Memberships include National Council of Teachers of English, Modern Language Association, and New York State English Council, which named her its 1996 Educator of Excellence.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5061

Jane Budimir
Mathematics and Science Faculty, BHSEC
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University; M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Chemical Physics, Columbia University; M.A., Mathematics Education, New York University. Areas of research involved many-body effects in condensed phases using techniques of statistical physics. Spent many years in the financial industry working in mathematical modeling and computer systems development. Teaching experience includes undergraduate Chemistry at Columbia University, 8th grade mathematics at East Side Community High School.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4131

Tim Casey
Art Faculty, BHSEC
B.F.A., M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design. Painter; has had solo exhibitions at Pratt Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts; Thompson Park Gallery, Lincroft, New Jersey; and Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, The Clocktower, and Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City. Work included in group shows at Artists' Space, New York City; Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Miami; Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn. Reviews in Arts Magazine, Art in America, New York Times. Has taught at Tufts University, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Middlebury College.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x2011

Kyung Cho
English Faculty, BHSEC
B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A. University of Iowa. Has taught literature and creative writing at University of Iowa, Borough of Manhattan Community College and School of Visual Arts.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5061

David Clark
Language Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Brown University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Interests include Latin literature of the late Roman republic and early Roman empire; ancient philosophy; New Testament. Has taught at Columbia University and Oberlin College.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5081

Judith A Cohen
Science Faculty, DaVinci Program Director, BHSEC
B.S., Queens College; M.S., Brooklyn College. Has taught at Montessori Academy of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Technical High School. Director of education, Girls Club of New York (1981–82); executive director, Women's Survival Space, Brooklyn (1984–86). Coordinator of Gateway to Higher Education at Brooklyn Tech, a program designed to meet the needs of African American and Latino/a students who excel in science and math
Phone: 212-995-8479

Jennifer Cordi
Assistant Professor of Biology, BHSEC
B.A., University of Rochester; Ph.D., Binghamton University-SUNY. Research focus: morphological and anatomical investigations of Middle Devonian fossil plants; network theory applications to understanding patterns and processes of vascular plant evolution. Member: Botanical Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution, New York Academy of Sciences.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x3010

Elizabeth Dunn
Faculty, Health
Phone: 212-995-8479

Fang Fu
Language Faculty, BHSEC
A.A., Fuzhou Teachers College, China; B.A., M.A., M.Ed., Columbia University. Ed.D. candidate, Columbia University. Teaching associate, Chinese Language Program, Columbia University. Adjunct Lecturer, City College and Baruch College, CUNY. Specializes in bilingual/bicultural education and international educational development. Areas of interest include modern Chinese literature and language.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5081

Denice Gamper
Science Faculty, BHSEC
B.S., St. Joseph's College; M.S., St. John's University. Instructor of science, Bishop Kearney High School, Brooklyn (1980–2001). Awards include research fellowship for high school science teachers in medicinal chemistry, St. John's University (1998–99); research fellowship for high school science teachers in neurobiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (1992–93).
Phone: 212-995-8479 x3081

Lee D. Johnson
Professor, English Department, BHSEC
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Doctoral Candidate, Yale University. Specializes in Slavic languages and literature. Program supervisor, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia (2003); visiting assistant professor, Bard College (2002–03); teaching assistant, Yale (1995, 1998, 2000–01).
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5061

Mossbah M. Kolkas
Science Faculty, BHSEC
B.S., Alexandria University; M.A., Brooklyn College; Ph.D., The Graduate School of the City University of New York. Research fellow, Rennselaer Center of Applied Geology, Northeastern Science Foundation Inc., Troy, New York. Awards and scholarships include Outstanding Service Award, Department of Geology, Brooklyn College (1995); Certificate of Recognition, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1997); W. A. Tarr Award, Epsilon Upsilon Chapter, Sigma Gamma Epsilon (1997). Has taught at College of Staten Island, Hunter College, Brooklyn College.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x3081

Michael Lerner
Associate Dean of Studies, Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University. Has taught at Barnard College, NYU, New School University, and Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Awards include Best Dissertation in Urban History, Urban History Association (2000). Publications include Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City (2007). Teaching and research interests include 20th-century United States society and politics; American reform movements; popular culture; U.S.–Pacific relations.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4072

Rene S. Marion
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Assistant professor, Ball State University; visiting professor, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Guyancourt, France (1999), Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (1998); assistant professor, University of South Dakota. Research interests include social and cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, food culture, popular politics.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4081

Thomas Martin
Art History Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Formerly Associate Professor, Art Department, University of Tulsa, where he won the Outstanding Teacher Award for 1999-2000. The author of "Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice" (Oxford, 1998), he has also published in the "Burlington Magazine," the "Revue du Louvre," and other periodicals. He has been awarded fellowships by the Metropolitan Museum, the Delmas Foundation, and in 1997-98 was the Rush Kress Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x2042

Bruce Matthews
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., University of Virginia; M.R.A., Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., New School University. Visiting assistant professor, philosophy and religion, New Jersey City University; adjunct assistant professor of philosophy, Hunter College and Parson's School of Design. Hans Jonas Memorial Award, New School (1999).
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4131

Steven V. Mazie
Assistant Professor of Political Science, BHSEC
Ph.D., University of Michigan (Political Science); postgraduate work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; A.B. (magna cum laude), Harvard College. Previous teaching at Bard College (2005), New York University (2002) and the University of Michigan (1997-99). Honors include American Political Science Association Best Paper Award in Religion and Politics (2003), Charlotte C. Newcombe Fellowship (2000-2001), National Science Foundation research grant (2000), Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship (1993-94) and three awards for teaching excellence. Author of Israel’s Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2006). Recent articles published in Polity, Perspectives on Politics, Field Methods, and Review of Faith and International Affairs, as well as the New York Times. Areas of specialization: political theory, public law. Current research projects: egalitarianism and gifted education; rationality, voting and democracy.
E-mail: smazie@gmail.com
E-mail: smazie@bard.edu
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4082

Jerold Nashban
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Yale University; M.A., New School for Social Research; Graduate of the psychoanalytic training program of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Has taught mathematics at Sarah J. Hale HS (1980-1994); Brooklyn College (1995); College of Mount St. Vincent (1996); Coalition School for Social Change, New York (1994-1999); Humanities Prep Academy, New York (1999-2003 ). State licensed psychoanalyst.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4131

Ray Peterson
Principal, BHSEC
B.A., Southwestern College; M.A., University of Iowa; doctoral studies at New York University. Director, Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, 1998–2001. Has taught at Central Missouri State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, California. Professional honors include Coe Foundation Fellowship in American Studies (1967); Bay Area Writing Project Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1979); Carnegie-Mellon Writing Research Fellowship (1980). Has contributed articles to Before and After (Random House, 1985) and Writing in Australia (Oxford, 1986), among others.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x2285

Elizabeth Poreba
English Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Wellesley College; M.S.W., M.A., New York University. Has taught at New Explorations into Science, Technology, and Mathematics, New York; Sacred Heart School, New York; Berkshire Farm and Services for Youth; Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities grant (1992, 1995).
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5061

Zangwill (Sam) Rosenbaum
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC
B.S., M.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Areas of research interest include discrete mathematics, mathematical modeling in the social sciences, and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). Publications have appeared in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Social Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Education, and Aequationes Mathematicae.
E-mail: sam.rosenbaum@att.net
Phone: 212-995-8479

Gabriel Rosenberg
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Rice University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Served as NSF/Gibbs Instructor at Yale University. Has also given invited talks at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Brown, Rutgers, and Harvard as well as the Albany Group Theory Conference. Research has focused on the subject of group actions on trees.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x4131

Martha Rowen
Language Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., City University of New York. Adjunct assistant professor, Foreign Language Department, New York University (1989– ); also has taught at CUNY Graduate Center; Brooklyn College; Fontbonne Hall Academy, Brooklyn; High School of Environmental Studies, New York; Washington Irving High School, New York; Teaneck High School, New Jersey.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5081

Scott Ellison Smith
Art Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Morehouse College; certificate, International Center of Photography. Freelance photographer; has pursued photographic work in Asia, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States. Cofounder, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn. Has taught at Acorn Community High School, Brooklyn, and Ballard High School, Seattle.
Phone: 212-955-8479

Rick Vartorella
English Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., CUNY Empire State College. M.F.A., Ohio State University. Faculty, Bard High School Early College (2001-). Faculty, Young Writers Workshop at Simon’s Rock College (2004-). Faculty, Bard College Workshop in Language and Thinking (1999-2004). Faculty, CUNY New York City Technical College (1997-2001).
Phone: 212-995-8479 x5061

Edward Vernoff
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., New York University; M.I.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., NYU. Has taught at LaGuardia High School and Seward Park High School, New York; Shanghai Teachers College, China; New York City Technical College. Editor, Through Chinese Eyes and other books; coauthor, The Penguin International Dictionary of Contemporary Biography and The International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography.
Phone: 212-995-8479

Lori Ween
English Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Has taught literature, composition, and comparative literature at Penn State and Spanish at Northwestern. Interests include minority literature and Latin American culture.
Phone: 212-995-8479

Wynne Wu
Music Faculty, BHSEC
B.A., Oberlin College; B.Mus., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.A., New York University. Has taught in New York City public school system and at Oberlin Conservatory. Areas of specialization include Mandarin Chinese and piano performance.
Phone: 212-995-8479

Drew Youngren
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC
B.S., Columbia University; M.A., Stony Brook University; Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.A.(Mathematics Education), New York University. Research has focused on microlocal analysis and linear partial differential equations. Areas of interest include differential geometry and mathematical physics. Was awarded a Newton Fellowship by the Math for America program.
Phone: 212-885-8479 x3101