Bard Faculty

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Bard’s extraordinary faculty are dedicated to the philosophy of teaching. Today and throughout Bard’s history, members of the faculty have effected change in medicine, the arts and letters, international affairs, journalism, scientific research, and education, among other endeavors. These distinguished scholars are advisers as well as instructors: Bard has no graduate teaching assistants. And the average class size of 17 allows for intimate discussions and one-on-one interaction.

Bard Faculty

Faculty In the Press

A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s Odyssey Together appeared in New York Times on 09-18-2017
Professor Helen Epstein Unpacks Kenya's Troubled Presidential Election appeared in New York Review of Books on 09-12-2017
Violence and Creativity: Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason on Pierre Michon appeared in New York Review of Books on 09-10-2017
Bardians Remember Professor Emeritus John Ashbery appeared in Bomb Magazine on 09-07-2017

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Recent News and Notes

Bard College Religion Professor Richard H. Davis Awarded $91,328 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

08-07-2017: The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Richard H. Davis, professor of religion at Bard College, a $91,328 grant to conduct a summer seminar, “The Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Poem, Modern Readers,” for college and university professors next July. The three-week seminar will bring together teachers in many humanities disciplines to explore the interpretation and pedagogy of this ancient text, focusing both on the work in its original historical context and on how it has continued to live for modern readers. Seminar participants will consider also how best to integrate this Indian work into general humanities courses in modern American colleges and universities.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2918

Bard Professor Justus Rosenberg Honored with French Legion of Honor Medal

03-28-2017: Justus Rosenberg will receive the Legion of Honor medal at the French consulate in New York City on Thursday, March 30. Professor Rosenberg, Bard professor emeritus of languages and literature and visiting professor of literature, is the last surviving member of the Varian Fry group, which helped rescue hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. He later joined the Forces Francaises de I'Interieur and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation organization. The medal recognizes his "selfless sacrifice" throughout the war and subsequent "outstanding academic career ... where you left a profound mark and remain a highly influential role model for thousands of young men and women beginning their adult lives. It comes in recognition of the high esteem in which you are held by French authorities, and serves as an example to all those who have French-American friendship at heart."

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Bard College President Leon Botstein, Faculty, and Alumna Speak in April 1 Series of Nonpartisan Political Panels in New York City

03-25-2017: Bard College President Leon Botstein; faculty Elmira Bayrasli, Jim Ketterer, and Walter Russell Mead; as well as alumna Sana Mustafa joined many other leading thinkers for a series of conversations on global security, immigration, and our divided nation at the New York Public Library on April 1. The event, "Shades of Red and Blue: Uniting Our Divided Nation," was cosponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.
http://shadesofredandblue.com/

MoMA Announces the First U.S. Exhibition to Encompass Photographer, Bard Professor Stephen Shore's Entire Career

01-29-2017: The Museum of Modern Art announces Stephen Shore, the first U.S. survey to encompass the entirety of Stephen Shore’s career in photography, from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current work with digital platforms. On view from November 19, 2017, until spring 2018, the exhibition tracks the artist from his wunderkind beginnings—works made when he was just 14 years old were acquired by Edward Steichen, the director of the Department of Photography at MoMA; he had a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was 24 years old—through his continual, restless interrogation of image making. Stephen Shore is Susan Weber Professor in the Arts and director of the Photography Program at Bard. He has taught at the College since 1982.
http://press.moma.org/2017/01/stephen-shore/

Bard Alumnae and Faculty to Appear in 2017 Whitney Biennial

11-18-2016: Work by several Bard alumnae and faculty members will be featured in the Whitney Biennial this spring. Bard alumnae include Celeste Dupuy Spencer (Studio Arts), Dani Leventhal MFA '10 (Film/Video), Carrie Moyer MFA '02 (Painting), and Leila Weinraub (MFA). Faculty artists include Susan Cianciolo (MFA visiting artist in Painting), Kevin Everson (MFA Film/Video faculty), An-My Lê (Photography), Ulrike Müller (MFA Painting cochair), and Cauleen Smith (MFA Film/Video faculty).

World Fantasy Award–Winning Author John Crowley to Give Reading at Bard College on November 14

11-09-2016: John Crowley, the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Little, Big and the Ægypt series, will read from his fiction at Bard College on Monday, November 14. The New York Times Book Review writes, “John Crowley is an abundantly gifted writer, a scholar whose passion for history is matched by his ability to write a graceful sentence.”
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2853

Economist Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Executive Vice President of Bard College, Appointed Greece’s Minister of Economy and Development

11-04-2016: Economist Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College, has been appointed as Greece’s minister of economy and development. As an economist, Papadimitriou has focused on financial structure reform, fiscal and monetary policy, community development banking, employment policy, and the distribution of income, wealth, and well-being. He heads the Levy Institute's macroeconomic modeling team studying and simulating the U.S. and world economies, including extensive research and modeling of the Greek economy. Papadimitriou has been president of the Levy Institute since 1986 and executive vice president, provost, and economics professor at Bard since 1977.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2852

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Faculty Profiles

Bruce Chilton '71

Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion, executive director of the Institute of Advanced Theology, coordinator of Theology, and senior pastor of the College, is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, and the author of the first critical translation of the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum, 1987).