Bard College

Bard College has named Miriam Felton-Dansky director of its undergraduate Theater and Performance Program. A longtime faculty member in the program as well as in Bard’s Experimental Humanities concentration, Felton-Dansky will take her position as director in spring 2021. Gideon Lester, who has served as director of the program since 2012, will become senior curator of the newly formed Center for Human Rights and the Arts, alongside his work as artistic director of the Fisher Center at Bard. More >

The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program announces the appointment of journalist and award-winning author Suzy Hansen to its faculty. Hansen is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs. She will teach writing on international affairs starting in the spring 2021 semester. More >