Bard Urban Studies in New Orleans Program
June 1 – July 31, 2012
The New Orleans Initiative offers a unique and highly-selective 8-week program in New Orleans. The program's 20 students will investigate notions of urbanism, ecology, and social policy, both in seminar style-classes and in demanding internships. Students will be expected to take two courses and intern up to 40 hours per week.
Faculty & Guests have included:
Ed Blakely
Director of New Orleans Office of Recovery Management, Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney, Former Dean of the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy
Richard Campanella
Program Faculty
Richard Campanella is the associate director and research professor at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. A geographer and mapping scientist by training, Campanella is the author of three critically acclaimed books on the historical geography of New Orleans, including Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (2006), winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities "Book of the Year" Award, and Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day (2002), the Gulf South Booksellers Association "Book of the Year." His geographical research has been published in the "Journal of American History," "Journal of Architectural Education," "Technology in Society," and "Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing."
LaToya Cantrell
President, Broadmoor Improvement Association, Manager, Greater New Orleans Education Foundation
Robert Collins
Program Faculty
Dr. Robert Collins is Director of the Urban Studies program at Dillard University and the Dean of Social Sciences. He has taught previously in the Urban Planning Department at Harvard University as well as in the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
He was active as a planner and consultant for the city of New Orleans after the storms of 2005 and is currently publishing a book on post-disaster urban planning.
Tonya Foster
Visiting Professor, Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College
Norman Francis
President, Xavier University, Former Chair, Louisiana Recovery Authority
Farrah Gafford
Dr. Farrah D. Gafford is a professor in the Sociology department at Xavier University of Louisiana. Dr. Gafford's research examines how residents in Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans’ first black middle-class subdivision, used institutions and organizations to create and maintain community solidarity in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Within Sociology she specializes in urban sociology, qualitative research methods, sociology of the family and race and ethnicity.
Patricia Jones
Director, Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association
Martha Ward
University Research Professor, University of New Orleans, Anthropology and Urban Studies
Dr. Martha Ward is a professor in anthropology and urban studies at the University of New Orleans. Her research interests include medical anthropology, women's studies, Voodoo, Micronesia, and racial identity in the Gulf South.
Discussion at Bard New Orleans Initiative workshop on community survey methodology. Photo: Pat Semansky