Profiles
Civic Engagement News
-
Model United Nations Team Finishes Season with Top 50 National Ranking
-
From Baghdad to Bard: Iraqi Refugee Finds Home in Science Research
-
Zeitgeist Films and Arendt Center Present Official U.S. Opening of Hannah Arendt Biopic
-
Alumna Spotlight: Valerie Doescher '11 at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court
-
An Evening at the Intersection of Democracy and Climate Change
Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. Professor Buruma is an award-winning journalist and writer.
He was educated in Holland and Japan, where he studied Chinese literature and Japanese cinema. In the 1980s, he worked as a journalist, and spent much of his early writing career traveling and reporting from all over Asia. Buruma now writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, most frequently for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Corriere della Sera, and NRC Handelsblad. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The China Lover (2008) and Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents (2010). He is the 2008 recipient of Holland's prestigious Erasmus Prize, as well as the 2008 winner of Stanford University's Shorenstein Journalism Award. Professor Buruma has been at Bard since 2003.For more information: http://www.ianburuma.com/home.htm
Photo by Pete Mauney
Phone: 800-BARDCOL | 845-758-6822
Admission Phone: 845-758-7472
Admission E-mail: admission@bard.edu
©2012 Bard College
