Faculty News
Alma Guillermoprieto Joins Bard Faculty in the Division of Languages and Literature
Bard College is pleased to announce the appointment of Alma Guillermoprieto as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Division of Languages and Literature for the fall 2023 semester. Guillermoprieto, a Mexican reporter and writer, began her English-language career in journalism in 1978, and broke the story of the 1981 El Mozote massacre by the army in El Salvador. She has written extensively about Latin America, including for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and National Geographic Magazine, and her writings have been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world. More >
What Is Money?: Bard Economist L. Randall Wray Discusses How Money Works on the Podcast Something You Should Know
L. Randall Wray, professor of economics at Bard and senior scholar at the Levy Institute, speaks with Mike Carruthers on Something You Should Know about the definition of money and how it actually works. “We need to get away from this notion that money is something we can get our hands on,” Wray explains. “If you go back in time, most market activity as far back as we go took place on the basis of credit and debit. And really that is how we should look at money. Money is credit in your hands and it’s somebody’s debt.” More >
Recent News
- Bard Professor Craig Anderson Named Chemistry Division Outstanding Mentor for 2023 by Council on Undergraduate Research
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- Bard Graduate Center’s Threads of Power Receives Award of Excellence from Association of Art Museum Curators
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