Affiliated Faculty

Daniel Berthold

Professor of Philosophy, Bard College

B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Teaches environmental ethics and technological applications of the Human Genome Project, including a focus on the ecological consequences of genetically modified agricultural crops. Areas of specialization include 19th-century Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and environmental ethics. Author of two books on the German idealist philosopher Hegel, essays in the Dictionary of Existentialism, and numerous articles and reviews. Scholarship on environmental ethics and the philosophy of ecology includes articles on Marxist ecology, 19th-century ecological thought, Aldo Leopold, and bioregionalism. Environmentally related public lectures include talks on the animal rights movement, bioregional politics, ecofeminism, and social ecology.

Sanjaya DeSilva

Assistant Professor of Economics, Bard College

B.A., Macalester College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Honors and awards include Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Ford Foundation research grants, and Yale University fellowships. Postdoctoral research, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2000-01). Publications include Yale University Economic Growth Center discussion papers "Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms" and "Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines." Specialization in economics of development, applied microeconomics, and international economics.

Gidon Eshel

Bard Center Fellow in Environmental Studies

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 (2008– ). (2008– ) Bard Center Fellow.

Stuart E. G. Findlay

Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

B.A., University of Virginia; M.S., University of South Carolina; Ph. D., University of Georgia. Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. Articles in scientific journals including Ecological Applications, Estuaries, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, and Limnology and Oceanography. Served on advisory panels and committees, including Hudson River Estuary Management Advisory Committee, New Jersey Sea Grant Science Advisory Committee and Proposal Review Panel, Estuarine Research Federation, Hudson River Museum, and Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the USEPA. Current research focuses on microbial ecology of subsurface stream sediments, functional assessment of wetlands, and the Hudson River ecosystem. Research interests include land-use effects on water quality; contribution of dissolved organic carbon to aquatic microbial food webs; the relationship between community structure and gradients of microbial function; the effects of human-induced changes in tidal marsh vegetation on nutrient retention and other wetland functions; and the contribution of submersed aquatic vegetation to organic matter and oxygen budgets of the Hudson River.

Naomi Roslyn Galtz

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan; J.D., Pace Law School, Environmental Law. Sociological research interests include: the social logics of consuming less; the commodification of simplicity in contemporary U.S. culture; and consumption, social class, and dachas (summer homes) in Russia from the late Imperial period to the present. Roz has authored or co-authored chapters in the Annual Review of Sociology and the edited collection, Living Through Soviet Russia, as well as book reviews and research reports.

Caroline Ramaley

Academic Support Associate, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

B.A., summa cum laude, Middlebury College; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Teaches graduate students to write clearly, persuasively, and reflectively for academic and lay readers. Taught basic and advanced composition, Shakespeare, and 18th- and 19th-century British literature at University of Virginia. Former assistant to the director of the UVA Science and Engineering Libraries. Currently also affiliated with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

Elizabeth Smith

Visiting associate professor of theater, Bard College

Voice and speech consultant for film, television, regional theater, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions, including As You Like It, Road to Moscow, Henry IV, Engaged, Sight Unseen, and, at Glimmerglass Opera Company, Death in Venice, Patience, and Mines of Sulphur. Trains students in the art of public speaking and the development of an effective, cogent public speaking persona. Has taught at Yale School of Drama, Vassar College, Juilliard School, Fordham University, National Theater Institute, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin, Ireland), Moscow Art Theatre School, and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Recipient, John Houseman Award (1996).

Susan Winchell-Sweeney

Course Tutor, Tools For Analysis - Geographic Information Systems (provides instructional support for professor Mark G. Becker and BCEP students)

An archaeologist by education and training, Winchell-Sweeney's area of expertise is the application of geospatial technologies in archaeological research and cartography. She has over a decade of experience providing GIS analysis, GPS and cartographic services for archaeological projects and has worked for private individuals, non-profit organizations, New York State and the federal government.

Winchell-Sweeney is currently a technician in the Department of Anthropology at the New York State Museum.