Bard College Catalogue

The Bard College Catalogue contains detailed descriptions of the College's undergraduate programs and courses, curriculum, admission and financial aid procedures, student activities and services, history, campus facilities, affiliated institutions including graduate programs, and faculty and administration.

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Bard College Catalogue 2012-13

Bard College Catalogue 2012-13

Faculty of Bard High School Early College (BHSEC)

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


BHSEC Manhattan

Michael Aloysius Lerner, Principal
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University.

Tabetha Ewing, Dean of Studies
Associate Professor of History, Bard College. See undergraduate faculty listing.

Martha J. Olson, Dean of Administration; Dean of Education Initiatives, Bard College
B.A., University of Illinois; J.D., New York University School of Law; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University.

Camille Sawick, Assistant Principal
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.S., Queens College; Sixth-Year Certificate in administration and supervision, College of Staten Island.

Sara Haberman, Assistant Principal for Guidance
B.A., Gettysburg College; M.A., L.C.S.W., New York University; M.S.Ed., Pace University. Former counselor, Stuyvesant and Chelsea High Schools, New York City.

Siska Brutsaert, Associate Dean of Studies
B.A., Cornell University; M.S., Kyoto University; Ph.D., Columbia University.

Ayse Aydemir
B.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University.

Beatrice Stern Birch
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo.

Bond Caldaro
B.A., Skidmore College; Ph.D. candidate, University of Minnesota.

Leo Casey
B.A., Antioch College and University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto. 

Tim Casey
Faculty, Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. See Language and Thinking Program listing.

Kyung Cho
B.A., Vassar College; M.F.A., University of Iowa. 

David Clark
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Brown University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Clarissa Coffey
B.M., Miami University; M.A., Brooklyn College.

Judith A. Cohen
B.S., Queens College; M.S., S.A.S., Brooklyn College.

Jennifer Cordi
B.A., University of Rochester; Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton.

Paul DuCett
Hunter College, City University of New York; M.A., Universidad de Salamanca; Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Daniel Freund
B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., Columbia University.

Fang Fu
A.A., Fuzhou Teachers College, China; B.A., M.A., M.Ed.; Columbia University; Ed.D. candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Christopher Gagstetter
B.S., SUNY Cortland.

Denice A. Gamper
B.S., St. Joseph’s College; M.S., St. John’s University.

Julia Guerra
B.A., M.A., American University.

Arturo Hale
B.S., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. 

Patricio Hernandez
A.A., Suffolk County Community College; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stony Brook University.

Courteney Johnson
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.S., Hunter College, City University of New York.

Lee D. Johnson
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. candidate, Yale University.

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

Thomas Martin
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Bruce Matthews
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A.R., Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., New School University. Bard High School Early College Faculty Exchange Fellow, Bard College (2011–12).

Steven V. Mazie
B.A., Harvard College; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Bard High School Early College Exchange Fellow, Bard College (2011–12).

Benjamin Mikesh
B.A., Brown University; M.S., University of Washington; J.D., Harvard Law School.

Maryah Nardone
B.S., CUNY York College.

Jerold Nashban
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

Elizabeth Poreba
B.A., Wellesley College; M.S.W., M.A., New York University.

Petra Riviere
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., New York University.

Zangwill (Sam) Rosenbaum
B.S., M.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Gabriel Rosenberg
B.A., Rice University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Martha Rowen
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., City University of New York.

Ben Rubenstein
B.A., M.A.T., Bard College. 

Paul Schubert
B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Jenny Tibbels-Jordan
B.A., Eastern University; M.F.A., Columbia University. 

Rick Vartorella
B.A., SUNY Empire State College; M.F.A., Ohio State University. Faculty, Young Writers Workshop, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College (2004– ); Language and Thinking Program at Bard College (1999–2004).

Meghann Walk
B.A., C.A.S. candidate, University of Illinois; M.S.L.I.S., Simmons College.


BHSEC Queens

Valeri J. Thomson, Principal
B.A., Bard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College (2000– ); Director, Immediate Science Research Opportunity Program, Bard College (1998–2007); Adjunct Professor, Bard College Prison Initiative (2007) and Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program (2006).

Patricia Sharpe, Dean of Studies
B.A., Barnard College; Ph.D., University of Texas.  Elizabeth Blodgett Hall Chair in Literature, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College

Sue Leung Eichler, Assistant Principal, Administration
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York; M.A., New York University. 

Jenna Feltey Alden
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University.

Haroula Argiros
B.S., University of Vermont; M.A., Ph.D., New Mexico State University.

Ian Bickford
A.A., Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center.

Kevin J. Bisceglia
B.S., M.E., Manhattan College; Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University.

Leslie Boyce
Dancer, choregrapher, director.

Holly Kashin Brown
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center.

Matthew Carlberg
B.S., Columbia University; M.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.A.T., Bard College; 2010 Math for America Fellow.

Michael Cetrangol
B.M., University of Dayton; M.M., Conservatory of Music, SUNY Purchase.

Matthew Leonard Cohen
B.A., Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas.

David Copenhafer
B.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 

Anales Debhaumik
B.Sc., M.Sc., Calcutta University; Ph.D., University of Florida.

Aris Efting
Ph.D., University of Nebraska.

D. Kent Freeman
B.S., University of Cincinnati; S.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University; M.A., New York University.

Jess deCourcy Hinds
A.A., Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; B.A., Smith College; M.F.A., Brooklyn College; M.S.L.I.S, Pratt Institute.

William H. Hinrichs
See BHSEC Manhattan faculty listing.

Laura A. Hymson
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Simmons College; Ph.D., University of Michigan.

June Morrison Jones
B.S., M.A., Brooklyn College.

Stephanie Kadison
B.S., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan; Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Jennifer Kaplan
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., New York University.

Katharina F. Kempf
B.A., Simon’s Rock at Bard College: The Early College.

Toi Yuk (Irene) Lam
B.A., Hunter College; M.S., City College; M.S., East China Normal University, Shanghai.

Danielle M. LaSusa
B.A., Millikin University; Ph.D., Temple University.

Catherine Lee
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

John Leizman
B.A., St. John’s College, Annapolis; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Union Graduate School.

Shannon Leslie
B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., University of Cincinnati.

Sara Machleder
B.A., Goucher College; Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Michael W. Magee
B.A., Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Theresa M. Mawn
B.S., Manhattan College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; 2009 Math for America Fellow.

Peter Mazur
B.A., Catholic University of America; M.Phil., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Yale University.

Kristy McMorris
B.A., Howard University; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, New York University.

Jennifer Renee Caden Merdjan
B.A., M.S., Queens College.

Isaac Miller
B.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 

Sean Mills
B.A., Knox College; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College.

Hayes Moore
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Arup Mukherjee
B.A., M.A., Hunter College. 

Scott Neagle
B.A., Bennington College; M.S., Pace University.

Ezra Nielsen
A.A., Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Zachariah Pickard
B.A., University of King’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto. 

Julia M. Robinson-Surry
B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Laura Saltman
B.S., University of Rochester; M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Valerie Sarris
B.A., Smith College; M.Ph., Ph.D., Yale University; M.A., Hunter College. 

Jonathan Schwartz
B.A., St. Lawrence University;  Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Jordan Shapiro
B.A., Columbia College; M.P.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Michigan. 

Daisy Sharaf
B.A., St. John’s College; M.S., University of Chicago.

Natalia Solorzano
B.S., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; M.S., Ph.D., National Institute for Space Research, Brazil.

Meng-Ping Tu
B.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Anne Turyn
B.F.A., Antioch College; M.F.A., SUNY Buffalo; M.A., Graduate Center, CUNY.

Stefan Weisman
B.A., Bard College; M.M., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University.

Marina Woronzoff
B.A., Washington University; M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts.

Pirronne Yousefzadeh
B.A., Washington University; M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts.


BHSEC Newark Founding Faculty

John B. Weinstein, Principal
B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Lori Ween,, Dean of Studies; Faculty in Biology
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Dumaine Williams,, Dean of Studies; Faculty in Biology
B.A., Bard College; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook.

Kate Beridze
M.S., Tblisi State University; Ph.D., Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tblisi, Georgia.

David Dowling
B.S., Ithaca College; M.A., Adelphi University.

Claudia Fernandes
B.A., Villanova University; M.A., New York University; Ed.D. candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Seth Halvorson
B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Stanford University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Ena A. Harris
B.A., Eugene Lang College, New School University; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo.

Seth Ruggles Hiler
B.A., Syracuse University; M.F.A., New York Academy of Art.

Oluyinka O. Irukera
M.S., B.S., University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria; Ph.D., Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

William Kriegsman
B.A., Albright College; M.L.I.S. candidate, Rutgers University.

Shilpi Nagarsheth
B.S., University of Houston; M.A., Ed.D. candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lance D. Silverman
B.S., New York University; Ph.D., NYU-Polytechnic; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University.

Carla R. Stephens
B.A., Ph.D., Temple University.

Andrea Valenzuela
B.A., M.A., University College London; Ph.D., Princeton University.