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
Faculty
Myra Young Armstead
Professor of History; Director, Historical Studies Program; History Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching
Phone: 845-758-7235 * E-mail: armstead@bard.edu
Professor of History, Bard College. B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Specialization: U.S. social history, with emphasis on urban and African American history. Recipient, Danforth-Compton, Josephine de Karman, University of Chicago Trustees, and New York State African-American Research Institute fellowships; Frederick Douglass Award, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (Sullivan County, New York, chapter). Speaker in the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities (2003-present). Author of "Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August": African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs (1999) and Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley (2003).