Scholarship Opportunities
Scholarships and fellowships available include The Carroll and Milton Petrie Fellowships for New York City Teachers, Math for America Fellowship, and others.
Meet Our Mentors
Celia Hetterich, a mentor teacher in the MAT Program at Bard since its inception, has taught 8th-grade English at Chatham Middle School in Chatham, New York, for four years.
Bard, A Place to Think - Master of Arts in Teaching
Adjunct Faculty
Ethan Bloch
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7266 * E-mail: bloch@bard.edu
B.A., Reed College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Instructor, University of Utah (1983). Author, A First Course in Geometric Topology and Differential Geometry (1996), Proofs and Fundamentals: A First Course in Abstract Mathematics (2000). Articles in Topology, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Topology and Its Applications, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Fundamenta Mathematicae, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Beitrage zur Algebra und Geometrie, and Geometriae Dedicata. Recipient, National Science Foundation grant (1985). Member, American Mathematical Society. Specialization: geometric topology. Adjunct Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1986-) Professor of Mathematics.
Deirdre d'Albertis
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7242 * E-mail: dalberti@bard.edu
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (Palgrave, 1997), and volume editor, Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming). Articles and reviews in Victorian Studies; Studies in English Literature, 1500 1900; Victorians Institute Journal; Journal of the History of Sexuality; and Review. Grants and awards: National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (1995) and American Association of University Women American Fellowship (1996). Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, and narrative theory. Codirector, First-Year Seminar (2003-). Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1991-) Associate Professor of English.
Matthew Deady
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7216 * E-mail: deady@bard.edu
B.S., M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant professor of physics, Mount Holyoke College. Research experience: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bates Linear Accelerator Center; Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, NIKHEF, University of Illinois. Articles in journals including Physical Review, Technology Review, and American Journal of Physics. Current research includes nuclear physics, mathematical physics, and musical acoustics. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1987-) Professor of Physics, Bard College
Mark D. Halsey
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7267 * E-mail: halsey@bard.edu
B.A., Hobart College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Assistant professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1984-89). Member, American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America; full fellow, Institute for Combinatorics and Its Applications. Articles in Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, and Journal of Combinatorial Theory. National Science Foundation grants for pure and applied discrete mathematics research experience for undergraduates (1988-89) and advanced computing environment for the sciences (1991-93). Faculty, Workshop in Language and Thinking. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1989-) Associate Professor of Mathematics, Bard College.
Felicia Keesing
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7837 * E-mail: keesing@bard.edu
B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Grants: National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health. Awards and fellowships include Patricia Robert Harris Fellowship, Anna M. Jackson Award, United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000). Articles include contributions to Ecology, BioScience, Oecologia, Conservation Biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Canadian Journal of Zoology, among others. (2000-) Associate Professor of Biology, Bard College.
Mary Krembs
Professor of Mathematics
Phone: 845-758-7265 * E-mail: krembs@bard.edu
B.A., Marist College, M.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research interests include computational geometry (Voronoi Nets), computer graphics, software development methodology, human computer interaction and mathematical methods to compose and represent music. Member, American Mathematical Society, ACM, SIGGRAPH, Association for Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America. Extensive software research and development
experience at IBM , MapInfo and Harte-Hanks Interactive. Holds patent #5566292 Method to Detect the Closest Existing Point on a Spline or Polyline.
Nancy S. Leonard
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7211 * E-mail: leonard@bard.edu
A.B., Smith College; Ph.D., Indiana University. Assistant professor of English, University of Pennsylvania (1972-77). Member, Modern Language Association. Numerous articles and reviews on Shakespeare, poetry, and aesthetics in edited books and journals including Renaissance Drama, English Literary Renaissance, Huntington Library Quarterly. Program member, Literature, Film and Electronic Arts, Integrated Arts, and Theology Programs. Associate, Institute of Writing and Thinking (1982-). (1977-) Professor of English, Bard College.
Mark H. Lytle
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Phone: 845-758-7238 * E-mail: lytle@bard.edu
B.A., Cornell University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Fulbright Scholar (2001). Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, University College, Dublin. Recipient of Horace Kidger Distinguished Scholar Award of the New England Social Studies Council (1989) and grants from the Council on International Relations, Kellogg Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities. Editorial board, diplomatic history, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Contributor to American Historical Review, Middle East Journal, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, Hudson Valley Review. Member, scholars panel for the Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Institute. Director, Bard College/New Summer Institute, "The Age of the Roosevelts." Author, The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941 1953 (1987) and Shang: A Biography of Charles Wheeler (1984). Coauthor, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (5th ed., 2000); Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (5th ed., 2001); The United States: A History of the Republic (5th ed., 1989); and American Journey (1991). Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1974-) Professor of History, Bard College.
Caroline Ramaley
Academic Support Associate
Phone: 845-758-7348 * E-mail: ramaley@bard.edu
B.A., Middlebury College (summa cum laude); Ph.D. in 18th Century British Literature, University of Virginia. Taught basic and advanced composition, Shakespeare, and 18th and 19th-century British literature at UVA. Former Assistant to the Director of the UVA Science and Engineering Libraries. Currently also affiliated with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching Program as an Academic Support Associate.