Bard College Catalogue

Bard College Catalogue 2012-13

Faculty

For complete biographies see www.bard.edu/academics/faculty

arts  Division of the Arts
lang/lit  Division of Languages and Literature
sci  Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing
soc  Division of Social Studies
fys  First-Year Seminar

Leon Botstein President of the College
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History. Music ­director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ); conductor laureate, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broad­casting Authority (2003– ).  Coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990– ). Editor, The Musical Quarterly (1992–) and The Compleat Brahms (Norton, 1999); writer and editor of essays and chapters in numerous books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997). Honors include membership in American Philosophical Society, the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, National Arts Club Gold Medal, Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, Leonard Bernstein Award, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago. Presented the 2010–11 Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The History of Listening,” forthcoming from Oxford University Press. (1975– ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Executive Vice President of the College, President of The Levy Economics Institute, Executive Director of The Bard Center
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Graduate Faculty of the New School University, Department of Economics. Visiting Distin­guished Scholar, Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2002). Vice chairman, Trade Deficit Review Com­mission, U.S. Congress (1999–2001). Witness to U.S. Senate and House Committee Hearings on Banking, Finance, and Small Business. Articles in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, The Milken Institute Review, Analyst, Journal of Applied Business Research, Routledge Encyclo­pedia of International Political Economy, and many other journals, books, and newspapers. Frequent commentator on National Public Radio.  (1977– ) Jerome Levy Professor of Economics.

Michèle D. Dominy
Vice President, Dean of the College 
A.B. (honors), Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Field research in New Zealand and Australia. Author, Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand’s High Country (2001) and articles and reviews in Signs, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and other journals. Served on the editorial board of American Anthropologist and on the board of the American Conference of Academic Deans. Past editor, Pacific Monograph Series, University of Pennsylvania Press. Honorary life member of the American Anthropological Association; fellow of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Royal Anthropological Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Society for Applied Anthropology.  (1981– ) Professor of Anthropology.

Robert Martin
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director of The Bard College Conservatory of Music
B.A., Haverford College; B.Music, Curtis Institute of Music; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Cellist, Sequoia String Quartet (1975–85); president, Chamber Music America (1999–2005); coartistic director, Bard Music Festival. Publications include The Beethoven Quartet Companion, Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, The Paradox of the Liar (editor and contributor). (1994– ) Professor of Philosophy and Music.

Jonathan Becker
Vice President and Dean for International Affairs and Civic Engagement
B.A., McGill University; D. Phil., St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Taught at Central European University, University of Kiev Mohyla Academy, Wesleyan University, Yale University. Author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999; new edition, 2002). Director, Center for Civic Engagement; Director, Global and International Studies Program.
(2001– ) Associate Professor of Political Studies.

Susan Aberth arts
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Faculty, Language and Thinking Program, Bard College. (2000– ) Associate Professor of Art History.

Peggy Ahwesh arts
B.F.A., Antioch College. (1990– ) Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Jules Albertini sci
B.S., SUNY Cortland; M.A., SUNY Binghamton. (1986– ) Visiting Professor of Mathematics.

Richard Aldous soc
B.A., M.A., University of London; Ph.D., Cambridge University. (2009– ) Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature.

Diana Al-Hadid arts
B.A., B.F.A., Kent State University; M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University. Also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. (2012– )Visiting Artist in Studio Arts.

Charles William Anderson soc
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, New York University. (2012– )Visiting Instructor in History.

Craig Anderson sci
B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., Université de Montréal. (2001– ) Professor of Chemistry.

Sven Anderson sci
B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington. (2002– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Rania Antonopoulos soc 
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., New School University. (2001– ) Senior       Scholar, The Levy Economics Institute; Visiting Associate Professor of Economics.

Myra Young Armstead soc
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1985– ) Professor of History.

James Bagwell arts
B.M.E., Birmingham-Southern College; M.M.E., M.M.M., Florida State University; D.M., Indiana University.  Director of Orchestral and Choral Music, Bard College. (2000– ) Professor of Music.

Thurman Barker arts
B.A., Empire State College; additional study at Roosevelt University and American Conservatory of Music. Jazz musician. (1993– )  Associate Professor of Music.

Thomas Bartscherer
Assistant Professor of Humanities; Director, Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. See Language and Thinking Program faculty listing.

Sanjib Baruah soc
B.A., Cotton College, Gauhati, India; M.A., University of Delhi, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
(1983– ) Professor of Political Studies.

Norton Batkin soc
Vice President, Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History. See beginning of this section.

Laura Battle arts
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art. (1986– ) Professor of Studio Arts.

Florian Becker lang/lit
B.A., Magdalen College, Oxford University; Ph.D., Princeton University. (2005– ) Associate Professor of German; Program Director for ECLA Bard.

James M. Belk sci
B.S., M.A., Binghamton University; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. (2008– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Maria Belk sci
B.A., Carleton College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell Uni­versity. (2009– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Director of Quantitative Literacy.

Alex Benson lang/lit
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature.

Roger Berkowitz soc
B.A., Amherst College; J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., UC Berkeley. (2005– )  Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities; Associate Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights.

Daniel Berthold soc
B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. (1984– ) Professor of Philosophy.

Mario J. A. Bick soc
B.A., Columbia College; Ph.D., Columbia University. (1970– ) Professor of Anthropology.

Robert Bielecki arts
Sound designer, specializes in the creative use of technology in the electronic arts. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1997– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Celia Bland lang/lit
B.A., Sarah Lawrence; M.A., New York University.
(2000– ) Writer in Residence.

Ethan D. Bloch sci
B.A., Reed College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. (1986– ) Professor of Mathematics.

Alexander Bonus arts
B.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

Leon Botstein arts, lang/lit
President of the College, Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. See beginning of this section.

Christian Bracher sci
M.S., Ph.D., Technische Universität München, Germany.
(2008– )  Assistant Professor of Physics.

Jonathan Brent soc
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2004– ) Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature.

Diana De G. Brown soc
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., Columbia University. (1988– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

Teresa Buchholz arts
B.M., University of Northern Iowa; M.M., Indiana University; Artist Diploma, Vocal Performance, Yale University. Mezzo-soprano. (2012– ) Artist in Residence.

Ken Buhler arts
B.F.A., University of Iowa; M.F.A., Indiana University, Bloomington. Painter.  (2000– ) Artist in Residence.

Ian Buruma soc
Studied at Leyden University and Nihon University, Tokyo; honorary Ph.D. in theology, University of Groningen. Writer; journalist. (2003– ) Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism.

David Bush  arts
B.A., Bard College; M.F.A., Yale University. (2010– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography.

Kerry Bystrom
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Princeton University. (2006–07; 2012– ) Faculty Representative to ECLA Bard.

Paul Cadden-Zimanskysci
B.A., St. John’s College, Santa Fe; M.S., London School of Economics; M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Physics.

Anna Cafaro lang/lit 
Laurea, University of Messina, Italy; Diploma in Piano, Conservatorio of Music, Italy; M.A., Winthrop University; Ph.D. candidate, Boston College. (2009– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Spanish.

Mary Caponegro lang/lit
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Brown University. Writer. (2002– ) Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing.

Nicole Caso lang/lit
A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.  Faculty, Language and Thinking Program, Bard College. (2004– ) Associate Professor of Spanish.

Maria Sachiko Cecire lang/lit
B.A., University of Chicago; M.St., Ph.D., Oxford University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Bruce Chilton soc
B.A., Bard College; M.Div., General Theological Seminary, ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood; Ph.D., Cambridge University. Executive Director, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College. (1987– ) Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Chaplain of the College.

Odile S. Chilton lang
Licence ès Lettres, Mâitrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. (1987– ) Visiting Associate Professor of French.

Alex Chung soc
B.A., M.A. (business administration), Chinese Culture University; M.A. (finance), Drexel University; M.A. (economics), Ph.D., City University of New York. (2010– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance.

Betsy L. Chunko arts
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History.

Jean Churchill arts
Dancer, choreographer. Former member, Boston Ballet Company. (1980– ) Professor of Dance.

James O. Clark arts
B.S., Kutztown State College. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.

Teju Cole  lang/lit
B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.A., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. (2011– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Ben Coonley arts
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas  arts
B.A., Georgetown University; M.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Brown University.
(2011– ) Playwright in Residence.

Leah Cox arts
B.A., Texas Christian University. Dancer, choreographer; member, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, in residence at Bard College. (2009– ) Teaching Artist, New York Live Arts.

Jonathan L. Cristol soc
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Bristol University. Director, Globalization and International Affairs Program, Bard College. (2005– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Christian Ayne Crouch soc
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University. (2006– ) Assistant Professor of History.

John Cullinan sci
B.A., Bates College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (2006– )  Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Robert J. Culp soc
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University.
(1999– ) Associate Professor of History.

Laurie Dahlberg arts
B.S., M.A., Illinois State University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
(1996– ) Associate Professor of Art History and Photography.

Deirdre d’Albertis lang/lit
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. (1991– ) Professor of English.

Jennie D’Ambroise sci
B.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. (2011– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Mark Danner soc
B.A., cum laude, Harvard College. Journalist; staff writer, The New Yorker (1990–2001). (2003– ) James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities.

Richard H. Davis soc
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Chicago. (1997– ) Professor of Religion.

Tim Davis arts
B.A., Bard College; M.F.A., Yale University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Photography.

Matthew Deady sci
B.S., M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (1987– ) Professor of Physics.

Diana H. DePardo-Minsky arts
B.A., Yale University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History.

Sanjaya DeSilva soc
B.A., Macalester College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. (2000– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

Carolyn Dewald soc
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.  (2003– ) Professor of Classical and Historical Studies.

Terence F. Dewsnap lang/lit
B.A., M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. (1963– ) Professor of English.

Michèle D. Dominy soc
Vice President and Dean of the College, Professor of Anthropology. See beginning of this section.

Michael Donnelly soc
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Birkbeck College, University of London. (1999– ) Professor of Sociology.

Daniella Dooling arts
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art. Artist, videographer. (2003– ) Artist in Residence.

Annie Dorsen arts
M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. Writer, director. (2012– ) Visiting Artist in Theater and Performance.

Mercedes Dujunco
B.M., University of the Philippines; Ph.D., University of Washington; also postgraduate studies at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ethnomusicologist. (2005– ) Research Associate.

Sarah Dunphy-Lelii soc
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Yuval Elmelech soc
B.A., M.A., Tel Aviv University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Research Associate, The Levy Economics Institute. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Sociology.

Omar G. Encarnación soc
B.A., Bridgewater College; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Princeton University. (1998– ) Professor of Political Studies.

Mike Endo lang/lit
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
(2011–) Assistant Professor of Japanese.

Helen Epstein  soc
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.Sc., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Ph.D., Cambridge University. (2010– ) Visiting Professor of Social Studies.

Gidon Eshel sci
B.A., Haifa University, Israel; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Faculty, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. (2008–12) Bard Center Fellow. (2012– ) Research Professor.

John Esposito arts
Studied with John Cage, Elliott Carter, Frederic Rzewski. Musician, composer. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Barbara Ess arts
B.A., University of Michigan. Visual artist. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Photography.

Tabetha Ewing soc
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Dean of Studies, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan. (1998– ) Associate Professor of History.

Abou Farman soc
B.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Kris Feder soc
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Temple University. (1991– ) Associate Professor of Economics.

Miriam Felton-Dansky arts
B.A., Barnard College; M.F.A., D.F.A. candidate, Yale University School of Drama. (2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Theater and Performance.

John B. Ferguson sci
Sc.B., Brown University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. (1977– ) Professor of Biology.

Jack Ferver arts
Actor, writer, and choreographer. Trained at Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance; Prague Center for Continuing Education, Czech Republic. (2013– ) Visiting Artist in Theater and Performance.

Larry Fink arts
Photographer; solo exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, others. (1988– ) Professor of Photography.

Ester Flaim
B.A., University of Trieste, Italy; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing in The Learning Commons.

Peggy Florin arts
B.F.A. Program, The Juilliard School; B.A., Empire State College, SUNY; M.F.A., Bennington College. (1998– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Dance.

Marjorie Folkman arts
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. Faculty, Language and Thinking Program. (2010– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance.

Elizabeth Frank lang/lit
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (1982– ) Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature.

Kenji Fujita arts
B.A., Bennington College; M.F.A., Queens College. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1995– ) Artist in Residence.

Kyle Gann arts
B.Mus., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.Mus., D.Mus., Northwestern University. Composer, critic. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Music.

Benj Gerdes arts
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Hunter College, City University of New York. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Arthur Gibbons arts
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University; B.F.A, M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania. Director, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1988– ) Professor of Sculpture; S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence.

Christopher H. Gibbs arts
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (2003– ). (2002– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music.

Helena Sedlácková Gibbs fys
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University; Certificate in Education, University of Brasilia. (2003– ) Visiting Assistant Professor in First-Year Seminar.

Jeffrey Gibson art
B.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago; M.A., Royal College of Art, London. (2012– ) Artist in Residence.

Olivier G. Giovannoni soc
B.S., Ph.D., University of Nice. (2011– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

Jacqueline Susan Goss arts
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Stephen Graham
B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.F.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. (2006– ) Bard Center Fellow.

William James Griffith soc
A.B., cum laude, Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. (1968– ) Professor of Philosophy.

Donna Ford Grover lang/lit
B.A., Bard College; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (1999– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Literature.

Marka Gustavsson arts
B.M., Indiana University; M.M., Mannes College of Music; D.M.A., City University of New York. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Lianne Habinek lang/lit
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.Phil., University of Cambridge; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of English.

Garry L. Hagberg soc
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon. (1990– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy.

Tomie Hahn arts
M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. (2009–10; 2012­– ) Artist in Residence.

Kenneth Haig soc
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Mark D. Halsey sci
B.A., Hobart College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1989– ) Associate Dean of the College; Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Ed Halter arts
B.A., Yale University; M.A., New York University. Film critic, curator. (2005– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Yen-Chen Hao lang/lit
B.A., National Taiwan University; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University. (2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Chinese.

Lynn Hawley arts
B.A., Middlebury College; M.F.A., New York University; certificate of training, Moscow Art Theater.
(2000– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz lang/lit
B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. (2004– ) Associate Professor of Literature.

Elizabeth M. Holt lang
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.
(2008– ) Assistant Professor of Arabic.

Samuel K. Hsiao sci
B.S., Haverford College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. (2006– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Grace Hunt
B.A., B.Ed., York University, Toronto; M.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D. candidate, New School for Social Research. Faculty, Language and Thinking Program, Bard College. (2012– ) Junior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Peter Hutton arts
B.F.A., M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute. Filmmaker. Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art (2008). (1984– ) Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts.

Michael Ives lang/lit
B.A., University of Rochester. (2003– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of the Humanities.

Swapan Jain sci
B.S., Kennesaw State University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral faculty fellow, Boston University. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

William J. Joel sci
B.S., St. John’s University; M.S., Polytechnic Institute of New York; Ph.D., Syracuse University. (2012– ) Visiting Professor of Computer Science.

Philip Johns sci
B.A., Carleton College; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.

Bill T. Jones arts
B.A., SUNY Binghamton. (2010– ) Distinguished Artist; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts, in residence.

Brooke Jude sci
B.A., Colby College; Ph.D., Dartmouth College. (2010–12) Director, Citizen Science. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.

Patricia Karetzky arts
B.A., New York University; M.A., Hunter College; Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
(1988– ) Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History.

Daniel Karpowitz soc
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., University of Chicago Law School. (2003–09) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies. (2010– ) Lecturer in Law and the Humanities.

Thomas Keenan lang/lit
B.A., Amherst College; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. (1999– ) Director, Human Rights Project; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature.

Felicia Keesing sci
B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (2000– ) Professor of Biology.

Robert Kelly lang/lit
B.A., City College of New York; graduate work, Columbia University; Litt.D. (honorary), SUNY Oneonta. Poet, fiction writer. Founding Director, Writing Program, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (1980–93). (1961– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature.

Franz R. Kempf lang/lit
M.A. in German, M.A. in Russian, University of Utah; Ph.D., Harvard University. (1985– ) Professor of German.

Tanay Kesharwani sci
B.S., M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India; Ph.D., Iowa State University. (2011– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

David Kettler soc
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. (1991– ) Research Professor in Social Studies.

Erica Kiesewetter arts
Violinist. Graduate, The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. Faculty, Bard College Conservatory of Music. (2010– ) Director of Orchestral Studies; Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

So Yong Kim arts
B.S., California State University; B.F.A., M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Filmmaker. (2012– ) Artist in Residence.

Verlyn Klinkenborg lang/lit
B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Princeton University. Writer; member, New York Times editorial board (1997– ). (2004– ) Visiting Professor of Literature.

Marina Kostalevsky lang/lit
M.A., Leningrad State Conservatory; Ph.D., Yale University. (1996– ) Associate Professor of Russian.

Stephanie Kufner lang/lit
Teaching Diploma, Certification for English Language and Business Administration, University of Munich; Diplom-Handelslehrer, University of Munich; M.A. and Ph.D. in German, SUNY Albany. Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures, Bard College (1995– ). (1990– ) Visiting Associate Professor of German.

Laura Kuhn arts
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Director and cofounder, John Cage Trust. (2007– ) John Cage Professor of Performance Art.

Laura Kunreuther soc
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.
(2001– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Cecile E. Kuznitz soc
A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Jewish History.

Benjamin La Farge lang/lit
B.A., Harvard College; graduate study, Balliol College, Oxford University. (1968– ) Professor of English.

Paul La Farge lang/lit
B.A., Yale College. (2010– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing.

Christopher N. LaFratta sci
B.S., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., University of Maryland. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann soc
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University. (2007– ) Bard Center Fellow. (2010– ) Levy Institute Research Professor.

Peter Laki arts
Diploma in Musicology, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. (2007– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Gregory Landweber sci
B.A., Princeton University; M.Sc., Oxford University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics with Distinction, Cambridge University. (2007– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Kristin Lane soc
B.A., University of Virginia; M.S., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Lenore Latimer arts
B.S., The Juilliard School. Dancer, choreographer. (1979– ) Visiting Professor of Dance.

Ann Lauterbach lang/lit
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Columbia University. Poet. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1997– ) David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature.

An-My Lê arts
B.S. (biology), Stanford University; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art. (1998– ) Professor of Photography.

Amii LeGendre arts
B.A., Connecticut College; M.F.A. candidate, University of Wisconsin. (2010–) Instructor in Dance; Health Educator.

John Louis LeJeune
B.A., Boston University; M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, San Diego. Also studied at National Taiwan Normal University. (2012–) Junior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Nancy S. Leonard lang/lit
A.B., Smith College; Ph.D., Indiana University. Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking (1982– ). (1977– ) Professor of English.

Gideon Lester arts
B.A., University of Oxford; dipl. in dramaturgy, Harvard University. (2012– ) Professor of Theater and Performance; Director of Theater Programs.

Marisa Libbon lang/lit
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., University of Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Christopher R. Lindner soc
B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., SUNY Albany. (1988– ) Director, Bard Archaeology Field School; Archaeologist in Residence.

Erica Lindsay arts
B.A., New York University. Jazz musician; composer. (2001– ) Artist in Residence.

Ilka LoMonaco arts
Vocalist, vocal teacher. (2008– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Nicola Lopez arts
B.A., M.F.A, Columbia University. Artist. (2007– ) Artist in Residence.

Kristin Lucas arts
B.F.A., The Cooper Union; M.F.A., Stanford University. Multimedia artist. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.

Barbara Luka soc
B.A., Lawrence University; Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Joseph Luzzi lang/lit
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., New York University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Codirector, First-Year Seminar (2009– ). (2002– ) Associate Professor of Italian.

Mark Lytle soc
B.A., Cornell University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. (1974– ) Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies.

Medrie MacPhee arts
B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. (1997– ) Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence.

Norman Manea lang/lit
M.S., Institute of Construction, Bucharest, Romania. Author of novels, short fiction, memoirs, and essays. (1989– ) Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture; Writer in Residence.

William T. Maple sci
B.A., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University. (1973– ) Director, Bard College Field Station; Professor of Biology.

Juliette Mapp arts
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Dancer and choreographer. (2012– ) Teaching Artist, New York Live Arts.

Tanya Marcuse fys
A.A., Bard College at Simon’s Rock; B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., photography, Yale University School of Art. (2012– ) Visiting Associate Professor of First-Year Seminar.

Rene S. Marion
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. (2013– ) Bard High School Early College Faculty Exchange Fellow.

Robert Martin arts, soc
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, The Bard College Conservatory of Music; Professor of Philosophy and Music. See beginning of this section.

Wyatt Mason
Studied literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and University of Paris. (2010– ) Senior Hannah Arendt Center Fellow.

Paul Matteson arts
B.A., Middlebury College; M.F.A., Bennington College. (2011– ) Teaching Artist, New York Live Arts.

Robert W. McGrail sci
B.A., Saint Joseph’s College of Maine; M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. Director, Laboratory for Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, Bard College. (1999– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics.

Christopher McIntosh soc
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2010– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Allison McKim soc
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Emily Colleen McLaughlin sci
B.S., Ohio Northern University; Ph.D., University of Pennyslvania. (2008– ) Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

Blair McMillen arts
B.A., B.M., Oberlin College; M.M., The Juilliard School; Ph.D. candidate, Manhattan School of Music. Pianist. (2006– ) Artist in Residence.

Walter Russell Mead soc
B.A., Yale University. (2005–08; 2010– ) VJames Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities.

Edie Meidav lang/lit
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., Mills College. Novelist. (2006– ) Writer in Residence.

Daniel Mendelsohn
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Writer and journalist. (2006– ) Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities.

Susan Merriam arts
B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Harvard University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Art History.

Oleg Minin lang/lit
B.A., University of Victoria; M.A., University of Waterloo; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
(2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian.

Aniruddha Mitra soc
M.A., Delhi School of Economics; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2012– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

Chiori Miyagawa arts
M.F.A., CUNY Brooklyn College. (1999– ) Playwright in Residence.

Bradford Morrow lang/lit
B.A., University of Colorado; graduate studies, Danforth Fellow, Yale University. Novelist, poet; founding editor, Conjunctions (1981– ). (1990– ) Professor of Literature; Bard Center Fellow.

Gregory B. Moynahan soc
B.A., Wesleyan University; graduate studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; M.A., D.Phil., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (2001– ) Associate Professor of History.

William Mullen lang/lit
B.A., Harvard College; Ph.D., University of Texas. (1985– ) Professor of Classics.

Rufus Müller arts
B.A., M.A., Oxford University. Tenor; performs internationally in operas, oratorios, and recitals. (2006– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

Michelle Murray soc
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Matthew Mutter lang/lit
B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

David Nelson soc
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.H.L., Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion; Ph.D., New York University. (2008– ) Rabbi, Bard College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion.

Jacob Neusner soc
A.B., Harvard College; graduate studies, Oxford University, Hebrew University; Master of Hebrew Letters, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Ph.D., Columbia University. Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College. (1994– ) Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism; Bard Center Fellow.

Melanie Nicholson lang/lit
B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. (1995– ) Associate Professor of Spanish.

David O’Connell soc
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Keith O’Hara sci
B.A., Rowan College; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

Sakiko Ohashi arts
B.M., M.M., Juilliard School. Pianist. Director of Preparatory Division, Bard College Conservatory of Music. (2011– ) Visiting Instructor in Music.

Joseph O’Neill  lang/lit
Law degree, Girton College, Cambridge. (2011– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Lothar Osterburg arts
Diploma with excellence, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany. Master printer in etching and photogravure. (1999– ) Artist in Residence.

Neni Panourgiá soc
B.A., The American College of Greece; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University. Additional graduate studies at the University of Utah Medical School. (2012– ). Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou soc
Executive Vice President of the College, President of The Levy Economics Institute, Executive Director of The Bard Center, Jerome Levy Professor of Economics. See beginning of this section.

Philip Pardi
B.A., Tufts University; M.F.A., Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas. Poet and translator. (2005– ) Director of College Writing; Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing.

Gilles Peress arts, soc
Studies at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1966–68) and Université de Vincennes, France (1968–71). Photographer. (2008– ) Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Photography.

Joel Perlmann soc
B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Ph.D., Harvard University. Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute (1994– ). (1994– ) Levy Institute Research Professor.

Judy Pfaff arts
B.F.A., Washington University, St. Louis; M.F.A., Yale School of Art. Artist. Milton Avery Distin-guished Professor of Art, Bard College (1989, 1991). (1994– ) Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts.

John Pilson arts
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A., Yale School of Art. (2000– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography.

Francine Prose lang/lit
B.A., Radcliffe College. Author of 12 novels. (2005– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

John Pruitt arts
A.B., Dartmouth College; M.A., New York University. (1981– ) Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Dina Ramadan lang/lit
B.A., American University in Cairo; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Arabic.

Kelly Reichardt arts
B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. Filmmaker, screenwriter. (2006– ) Artist in Residence.

Joan Retallack lang/lit
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana; M.A., Georgetown University. Poet, critic. (2000– ) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities.

Bruce Robertson sci
B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Montana. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.

Miles Rodríguez soc
B.A., Rice University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

David Rodríguez-Solás lang/lit
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., M.A., University of Granada, Spain; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish.

Susan Fox Rogers lang/lit
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Columbia University; M.F.A., University of Arizona. Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking (1993– ). (2001– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Writing.

James Romm lang/lit
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University. (1990–96, 2000–02) Associate Professor of Classics; (2002– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics.

Lauren Lynn Rose sci
B.A., Tufts University; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Julia Rosenbaum arts
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. (2001–06, 2008– ) Assistant Professor of Art History.

Jonathan Rosenberg arts
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., New York University. (2005– ) Artist in Residence.

Peter Rosenblum soc
A.B., Columbia College; J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University Law School; LL.M., Columbia Law School; D.E.A. (Diplôme d’études approfondies), University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). (2012– ) Professor of International Law and Human Rights.

Marina Rosenfeld arts
B.A., Harvard College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts. Composer, artist. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (2006– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

John Ryle soc
B.A., M.A., Oxford University. Writer, filmmaker, anthropologist. Chair, Rift Valley Institute, a research and training association serving the African Rift Valley region. (2005– ) Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology.

Lisa Sanditz arts
B.A., Macalester College; M.F.A., Pratt Institute. Painter. (2009– ) Artist in Residence.

Luc Sante lang/lit; arts
Author, translator, essayist, critic. (1999– ) Visiting Professor of Writing and Photography.

Joseph Santore arts
B.F.A., Philadelphia College of Art; M.F.A., Yale University. Painter.
(2001– ) Artist in Residence.

Simeen Sattar sci
B.A., Rosemont College; Ph.D., Yale University. (1984– ) Professor of Chemical Physics.

Frank M. Scalzo soc
B.S., St. Bonaventure University; M.A., Ph.D., Binghamton University.
(1999– ) Associate Professor of Psychology.

Kristin Scheible soc
B.A., Colby College; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Religion.

Ann Seaton lang/lit
B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Harvard University. (2009– ) Director of Media and Difference; Director of Multicultural Affairs; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities.

David Shein soc
B.A., SUNY Oswego; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2008– ) Dean of Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Vivek Sheth soc
Graduate Diploma Program in Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. (2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Environmental and Urban Studies.

Gennady L. Shkliarevsky soc
B.A., M.A., Kiev State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia. (1985– ) Professor of History.

Nathan Shockey lang/lit
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Waseda University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. (2012– ) Professor of History.

Stephen Shore arts
Photographer; exhibits internationally at major venues. (1982– ) Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.

Lisa Sigal arts
B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art. (2010–) Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.

Maria Q. Simpson arts
B.F.A., University of Massachusetts; M.F.A., University of Washington. Choreographer and dancer.
(2004– ) Professor of Dance.

Mona Simpson lang/lit
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Columbia University. Writer of novels, short stories. (1988–2001, 2005– ) Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature.

Stuart Singer arts
B.F.A., SUNY–Purchase College. (20118– ) Teaching Artist, New York Live Arts.

Peter D. Skiff sci
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Houston; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. (1966– ) Professor of Physics.

Matthew Slaats soc
B.A., University of Evansville; M.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Environmental and Urban Studies.

Elizabeth Smith arts
Voice and speech consultant for film, television, theater. Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. (2000– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Theater.

Jane Smith
B.S., M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia; Ph.D. candidate, University of North Carolina. (2007– ) Visiting Instructor in Writing; Assistant Director, The Learning Commons.

Nicole Marie Smith arts
B.F.A., Montclair State University. Dancer and choreographer. (2012– ) Teaching Artist, New York Live Arts.

Michael Specter soc
New Yorker staff writer covering science, technology, and public health. (2012– ) Visiting Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies.

Patricia Spencer arts
B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music. (1997– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Benjamin Stevens lang/lit
B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2004– ) Assistant Professor of Classics.

Branden Stone sci
B.S., College of the Ozarks; M.S., Missouri State University; Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence.
(2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Mathematics.

Ian Storey
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2012– ) Junior Teaching Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Stuart Stritzler-Levine soc
B.A., New York University; M.A., New School University; Ph.D., SUNY Albany. Dean of the College (1980–2001); Dean of Studies, Bard High School Early College (2003–09). (1964– ) Professor of Psychology.

Alice Stroup soc
B.A., City College of New York; Diploma in the history and philosophy of science (with distinction) and D.Phil., Oxford University. (1980– ) Professor of History.

Richard Suchenski arts
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Film historian. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Karen Sullivan lang/lit
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (1993– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature.

Alan Sussman soc
B.A., M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., L.L.M., New York University School of Law. (1999– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy.

Yuka Suzuki soc
B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Julianne Swartz arts
B.A., University of Arizona; M.F.A., Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. Artist.
(2006– ) Artist in Residence.

Erika Switzer arts
B.M., M.M., solo piano, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; M.M., song interpretation, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Germany; D.M., collaborative piano, The Juilliard School. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Mairaj Syed soc
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Religion.

Pavlina R. Tcherneva soc
B.A., Gettysburg College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City. Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute. (2007– ) (2006–2008; 2012– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

Richard Teitelbaum arts
B.A., Haverford College; M.M., School of Music, Yale University. Composer, performer. (1988– ) Professor of Music.

Mickalene Thomas arts
B.F.A., Pratt Institute; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art. Also studied at Southern Cross University, Australia. (2013– ) Artist in Residence.

S. Rebecca Thomas sci
S.B., electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., computer science, Stanford University. (2000– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Naomi Thornton arts
B.A., Bryn Mawr College. Actor, director. (1981– ) Visiting Professor of Theater.

Michael Tibbetts sci
B.S., Southeastern Massachusetts University; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. (1992– ) Associate Professor of Biology.

Hap Tivey arts
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School. (1995– ) Artist in Residence.

Joan Tower arts
B.A., Bennington College; M.A., D.M.A., Columbia University. Composer. Faculty, The Bard College Conservatory of Music. (1972– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts.

Eric Trudel lang/lit
B.A., Concordia University, Montreal; M.A., French literature, McGill University; Ph.D. in Romance languages, Princeton University. (2002– ) Associate Professor of French.

George Tsontakis arts
Composer. Studied composition with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and conducting with Jorge Mester. (2003– ) Distinguished Composer in Residence.

Robert Tynes soc
B.F.A., New York University; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., SUNY Albany. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics.

Dawn Upshaw arts
B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University; M.A., Manhattan School of Music; honorary doctorate, Yale University. Soprano. Artistic Director, Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College. (2004– ) Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts and Humanities.

Marina van Zuylen lang/lit
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. (1997– ) Professor of French and Comparative Literature.

Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron fys
B.A., University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany; M.A., Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Ph.D., University of Saarland. Curatorial Researcher, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
(1999–2008). (2009– ) Visiting Assistant Professor in First-Year Seminar.

Olga Voronina lang/lit
B.A., M.A., Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Russian.

Jean Ruth Wagner arts
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Smith College. (2000– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater.

Binyavanga Wainaina
M.A., University of East Anglia, UK. Writer of fiction, memoirs, essays.
(2008– ) Bard Center Fellow; Director, Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists.

Sara Pankenier Weld lang/lit
B.A., M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Stanford University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Russian.

Gwen Welliver arts
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.F.A., Bennington College.(2012– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Robert Weston lang/lit
B.A., University of Florida; M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University. Assistant Dean,Al-Quds–Bard Program; Assistant Dean of International Studies. (2010–12). (2005– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities.

Thomas Wild lang/lit
M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich. Also studied at University of Rome, La Sapienza. (2012– ) Research Associate, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities; Assistant Professor of Literature.

Tom Wolf arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Art historian, painter, curator. (1971– ) Professor of Art History.

Kim Yaffe lang/lit
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York. (2012– ) Visiting Instructor in Hebrew.

Kritika Yegnashankaran  soc
M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Harvard University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Li-Hua Ying lang/lit
B.A., Yunnan Normal University, China; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. (1998– ) Associate Professor of Chinese.

Ruth Zisman soc
B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, New York University. (2011– ) Visiting Instructor in Humanities.