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Bard’s extraordinary faculty are dedicated to the philosophy of teaching. Today and throughout Bard’s history, members of the faculty have effected change in medicine, the arts and letters, international affairs, journalism, scientific research, and education, among other endeavors. These distinguished scholars are advisers as well as instructors: Bard has no graduate teaching assistants. And the average class size of 16 in the Lower College and 12 in the Upper College allows for intimate discussions and one-on-one interaction.
“What brought me to Bard, in a word, was the faculty.”
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“What brought me to Bard, in a word, was the faculty.”

“To work with Joan Tower, George Tsontakis, and James Bagwell was an opportunity I couldn’t miss. I had long followed and admired their work, and then I found out that each of them taught here. It’s easy for musicians to focus only on music, whereas I wanted to have a broader education that would prepare me for a world that requires a more well-rounded base of knowledge and experience.”
—David Bloom ’13 MM ’15

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Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship

Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship

Xie’s fellowship in the category of Poetry is one of 14 fellowships awarded by the foundation this year.

Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship

Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Jenny Xie, assistant professor of written arts.
Jenny Xie, assistant professor of written arts at Bard College, has been announced as a recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship for 2026-27. Xie’s fellowship in the category of Poetry, conferred by the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, is one of 14 fellowships awarded by the foundation this year, which support independent creative and scholarly work on major projects by early mid-career individuals who have demonstrated potential to be future leaders in their fields.

During her fellowship, Xie will receive $40,000 in unrestricted funds to devote her time to researching, developing, and writing her third poetry collection, Dead Time, which delves into forms of directionless time, or time untroubled by plot and by imperatives of action. Xie is the author of two other collections of poetry. Eye Level (2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. The Rupture Tense (2022) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Xie has also been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

The Howard Foundation is an independent agency administered at Brown University. Established in 1954, it awards annual, unrestricted fellowships to promising individuals in selected artistic and academic fields. Past fellows have authored bestsellers, directed Oscar nominated feature-length films, and earned some of the world’s most prestigious honors including Pulitzer Prizes, the Rome Prize, and the Whiting Award. For more information, visit howard-foundation.brown.edu.


Post Date: 06-04-2026
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Bard Musician Franz Nicolay Testifies in Congress

The case concerned the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster which has resulted in a monopoly on event ticket sales in the United States.

Bard Musician Franz Nicolay Testifies in Congress

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Franz Nicolay, visiting instructor of music.
Franz Nicolay, visiting instructor of music at Bard College, spoke at a Congressional hearing about a Live Nation/Ticketmaster antitrust case, reported Chronogram. The case concerned the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster which has resulted in a monopoly on event ticket sales in the United States. “Live music hasn’t been a healthy competitive market,” said Nicolay during the hearing. “Instead, a vertically integrated corporation that controls venues and tour promotion and ticketing and artist management, to the almost total control of many music markets, is, to a comical degree, the epitome of the kind of monopolistic power that antitrust law was created to address.”

“We, as artists, simply don’t have the range of city-to-city, venue-to-venue choices that would constitute a healthy ecosystem,” Nicolay continued. “It’s a problem of affordability, in an economic climate which, through drastically increasing gas prices, airfare, postage and international shipping fees for merchandise, and hardening borders, is making the touring on which our livings depend increasingly unaffordable for musicians. And that increased overhead… has a corresponding effect on affordability and access for fans.”

The Music Program, one of the largest programs on Bard’s campus, provides a wide range of musical concentrations, from classical composition and performance to jazz, electronic music, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. 

Read more in Chronogram

Further Reading in Rural Intelligence
 
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Post Date: 06-02-2026

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  • President Botstein Awarded Honorary Degree and Bard Medal

    President Botstein Awarded Honorary Degree and Bard Medal

    President Leon Botstein at Bard College’s 166th Commencement. Photo by Samuel Stuart Hollenshead
    At Bard College’s 166th Commencement, President Leon Botstein, who became the College’s 14th president in 1975, was awarded an honorary degree and Bard Medal. Botstein received an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in recognition of his 51 years of transformative leadership. Botstein was also presented with the Bard Medal, which honors individuals whose efforts on behalf of Bard and whose achievements have significantly advanced the welfare of the College. 

    The numerous Bard College initiatives designed and founded under his leadership encompass a wide range of educational work ranging from local community programs to international efforts with global impact. Bard High School Early Colleges have enlarged the opportunities available to talented high school students in under-resourced communities across the country. The Bard Prison Initiative has made a liberal arts education available to incarcerated learners hungry for meaning and hope in their lives. Bard’s renowned music programs, its internationally recognized Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and its Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture offer unparalleled interdisciplinary education in the arts. Bard College Berlin, Al-Quds Bard College, and Bard’s other international programs offer an education across the world to students from places where access to a liberal arts education is otherwise unavailable or suppressed.

    “Starting decades ago, with limited resources, President Botstein led Bard toward all these achievements,” states the citation for Botstein’s Doctor of Civil Law honorary degree. “Recently, aided by a generous match from the Open Society Foundations, he completed a boldly ambitious endowment campaign that goes a long way toward securing Bard’s future.” The citation for Botstein’s Bard College Award stated: “Over fifty-one years as president, Botstein has transformed Bard College into the extraordinary institution that it is today, and his work and leadership have defined Bard’s distinct and important mission.”

    Post Date: 06-02-2026
  • Hal Haggard's Research on Black Holes Featured on PBS Space Time

    Hal Haggard's Research on Black Holes Featured on PBS Space Time

    Hal Haggard, associate professor of physics.
    Research by Associate Professor of Physics Hal Haggard was featured on Matt O’Dowd’s PBS Space Time, an informational show that introduces viewers to concepts in astrophysics. The episode focused on an idea Haggard helped pioneer about black holes: that instead of becoming singularities at the end of their lifetime, as was previously thought, they may instead lead into cores of energy, also known as “white holes.” Haggard’s research on these structures, also known as Planck stars, and black-to-white hole tunneling was discussed in the context of physicists’ anxieties around black holes and how the perception of them has changed in previous decades. The Planck star’s existence is “one of our final hopes,” O’Dowd says. “Let’s hope they’re real, for physics’ sake.”

    Haggard teaches in Bard’s Physics Program, which is dedicated to helping students at all levels gain a better understanding of the universe and how it works.
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    Post Date: 06-01-2026
  • Bard Artist in Residence Jonathan VanDyke MFA ’05 Awarded a Grant from the Gottlieb Foundation

    Bard Artist in Residence Jonathan VanDyke MFA ’05 Awarded a Grant from the Gottlieb Foundation

    Jonathan VanDyke MFA ’05, artist in residence. Photo by Shawn Poynter
    Jonathan VanDyke MFA ’05, artist in residence at Bard College, was awarded a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, a competitive arts grant for artists who have worked in their field for at least 20 years. The grant, which aims to “recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist,” gives individuals $25,000 to fund their creative projects. VanDyke’s portfolio began in 2005, while he was pursuing an MFA at Bard focusing on painting and sculpture. He has presented major projects at The Museum of Art of Ravenna, The Columbus Museum, The Power Plant, The AKG Buffalo Art Museum, and many other institutions worldwide. “This award is especially meaningful for me in relation to Bard: to apply for this award you must submit 20 years of studio work, and so the first images in my portfolio came from my Bard MFA thesis exhibition, while the last images documented work I’ve made since joining the Bard faculty a few years ago,” VanDyke said.

    VanDyke teaches in the Studio Arts Program at Bard, which provides a breadth of expanded offerings while retaining a strong core of courses that provide a firm grounding in basic techniques and principles, in an era when much contemporary art cannot be contained within the traditional categories and technology is transforming the production

    Post Date: 06-01-2026
  • Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli Profiled in the New York Times

    Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli Profiled in the New York Times

    Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli.
    Bard Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli was profiled in a New York Times article about the Luna Composition Lab, the mentorship program she founded with fellow composer Ellen Reid. They founded the lab after they realized they’d never experienced female mentorship in composing. “We took a good hard look at what we wished we had had,” said Mazzoli, and the two asked themselves, “What can we do to make this more diverse, more vital, more alive, more fun?” The Lab, which turns 10 this year, matches young and experienced composers who are female, nonbinary or gender nonconforming, and mentees receive eight months of mentorship and attend a music festival in New York. Now, Mazzoli and Reid are organizing musical events for LunaLab@10, an anniversary celebration of the program and its expanded reach. “We want the field to expand,” said Mazzoli, “and so bringing in gender diversity, racial diversity, economic income diversity, geographic diversity helps [the] field survive and thrive.”

    Mazzoli is a Grammy-nominated composer and musician who has written operas including Lincoln in the Bardo and Proving Up that are based on contemporary literature. She teaches in the Bard College Conservatory of Music, which provides the best possible preparation for a person dedicated to a life immersed in the creation and performance of music.
    Read the Article

    Post Date: 05-28-2026
  • Visiting Artist in Residence Beto O'Byrne Awarded Franklin Research Grant 

    Visiting Artist in Residence Beto O'Byrne Awarded Franklin Research Grant 

    Beto O'Byrne. Photo by Thomas Dunn
    Beto O'Byrne, visiting artist in residence in theater and performance at Bard College, has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society. O'Byrne’s grant will support archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in collaboration with Radical Evolution Performance Collective, toward the development of Forget the Alamo. This research-driven theatrical work reexamines the mythology surrounding the Alamo and the Texas Revolt, restoring Tejano, Black, and Indigenous perspectives long marginalized from state-sanctioned narratives, and grounding the performance in culturally specific aesthetics rooted in Tejano, Mexican American, and carpa traditions. 

    Established in 1933, the Franklin Research Grant program supports noncommercial research in all areas of knowledge. Awards are designed to help meet various related costs, such as for travel to libraries and archives, the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials, fieldwork, and laboratory research expenses.

    Bard’s Theater and Performance Program offers an interdisciplinary, liberal arts-based approach to the making and study of theater and performance, and embraces a wide range of performance practices, from live art and interactive installation to classical theater from around the globe.

    Post Date: 05-28-2026
  • Bard Scholar Tania El Khoury Honored With Two Residencies

    Bard Scholar Tania El Khoury Honored With Two Residencies

    Tania El Khoury.
    Tania El Khoury, distinguished artist in residence, associate professor in theater and performance, and director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, has been honored by two residencies, one with the École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC, a research school that supports experimental practices, and one with Théâtre Chaillot, a program within the French National Theater of Dance. In April, El Khoury was appointed as one of three leading international scholars invited annually by ArTeC whose work involves a transdisciplinary approach. During this residency in Paris, she delivered a public lecture in French, led a public workshop, provided feedback to MA students, and participated in a creative research event with Performing Knowledge, where she is an associate artist. 

    El Khoury’s residency through Fabrique Chaillot, a selective program at Théâtre Chaillot within the French National Theater of Dance, provided her with three weeks to develop her new work, Choreography of State. The project deconstructs the embodied gestures of law enforcement and border patrol to reveal the dramaturgy of state violence. This multimedia installation performance approaches choreography as a forensic practice, inviting women choreographers from diverse practices around the world to create dance notations as evidence of power structures: scores of resistance to be activated by performers and embodied by the audience in a celebration of self-defense. Choreography of State is coproduced by the Théâtre Chaillot in Paris and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, as part of Evidence, an international festival by the Fisher Center LAB. The work will premiere at Théâtre Chaillot in Paris from October 8–10, 2026, with its US premiere at Evidence, Fisher Center LAB, at Bard College from December 4–6, 2026.
     

    Post Date: 05-28-2026

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    Danielle Dobkin, Visiting Instructor in Music
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    Danielle Dobkin is a sound artist and composer who works with installation, modular synthesis, handmade circuits, live electronic improvisation, and on interdisciplinary projects with dancers, poets, visual artists, and musicians. Her work has been performed at venues in Philadelphia and New York, including Mom’s Gallery, Qspace, and Transducer Fest. She has served as a teaching assistant and guest lecturer/instructor at Columbia University, Bard College, and the Hartt School, with coursework covering production and reproduction, acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound design, contemporary electronics, and music software. After graduating from Bard, where she studied under Bob Bielecki, Marina Rosenfeld, and Richard Teitelbaum, Dobkin completed an MFA degree in sound arts at Columbia University, where she is pursuing a doctorate in musical arts. At Bard since 2020.

     



    Michèle D. Dominy, Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Anthropology
    Website: https://anthropology.bard.edu/faculty/
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    A.B. (honors), Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Awards and fellowships: Cornell University and Center for International Studies; National Science Foundation; United States/New Zealand Council; Wenner-Gren Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; Cultural Heritage Conservation Research Centre at the University of Canberra; Bard Research Fund. Field research in New Zealand and Australia. Author, Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand’s High Country (2001); and articles and reviews in Signs, New Zealand Women’s Studies Journal, Pacific Studies, Anthropology Today, Gender and Society, Pacific Affairs, Landfall: A New Zealand Quarterly, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Forest and Conservation History, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Forum, Cultural Anthropology, Man, Landscape Review, Current Anthropology, Journal of Political Ecology, Ecumene, The Contemporary Pacific, and edited volumes and proceedings. Guest coeditor of special issues of Anthropological Forum on “Critical Ethnography in the Pacific” (2005) and Moral Horizons of Land and Place (2018). Served on the editorial board of American Anthropologist and on the boards of the American Conference of Academic Deans and the Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities. Past editor, Pacific Monograph Series, University of Pennsylvania Press. Honorary life member of the American Anthropological Association; Fellow of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Royal Anthropological Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Society for Applied Anthropology. Evaluator, Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Dean of the College (2001–2015) and Vice President (2006–2015). At Bard since 1981.



    Daniella Dooling, Professor of Studio Arts
    Office: Fisher Annex, Room 116
    Phone: 845-758-7679
    Website: https://www.danielladooling.com
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    Daniella Dooling’s work resists genre definition. Her recent projects are activated through sculpture, collage, archival practice, and installation. Solo exhibitions include the Esther Massry Gallery, Albany, New York; Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, New York, New York; Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, New York; and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York. Her work has also been shown in numerous group exhibition venues, including Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner, New York, New York; Magenta Plains, New York, New York; Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York; Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, California; Re Institute, Millerton, New York; PAN/Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy; American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chelsea Art Museum, Kerry Schuss Gallery, and Exit Art, all in New York.

    BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Yale University. At Bard since 2003.



    Ellen Driscoll, Professor Emeritus of Studio Arts
    Office: Fisher Annex, 117
    Phone: 845-758-7876
    Website: https://www.ellendriscoll.net
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    B.A., Wesleyan University; M.F.A., sculpture, Columbia University. Previously taught at Rhode Island School of Design, where she served as department head of sculpture. Has also been affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Princeton University, and Parsons the New School for Design. Teaching and research interests include public art, sculpture and installation, drawing, enviromental justice, and civil rights. Her work has been exhibited in nearly one hundred solo and group shows throughout the country and internationally, including Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Thread Waxing Space, New-York Historical Society, Grand Central Terminal, and Damon Brandt Gallery in Manhattan; SmackMellon and Long Island University, Brooklyn; West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland; Nippon Ginko Bank, Hiroshima, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Boston Center for the Arts; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and others. She is represented in many public and private collections, including the Boston Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Awards and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Bunting Institute at Harvard University, and New York Foundation for the Arts; residencies at Sirius Art Centre (Cork, Ireland), MacDowell Colony, and Banff Centre for the Arts; and grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts and LEF Foundation, among others. Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Art New England, Sculpture Magazine, and Interior Design. At Bard since 2013.



    M. Elias Dueker, Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies
    Phone: 347-652-2916
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    B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University; postdoctoral research at Queens College, City University of New York, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Additional studies at Center for Microbial Oceanography and Columbia University’s Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology postbaccalaureate program. Recipient of grants and awards from Hudson River Foundation, Janet Holden Adams Fund, others. Work published in Environmental Science & Technology, Biogeosciences, Science of the Total Environment, and Final Reports of the Hudson River Foundation Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship Program. Former executive director of Project Underground, an international environmental and human rights organization. At Bard since 2014.



    Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Associate Professor of Psychology
    Office: Preston, Room 102
    Phone: 845-758-7621
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    B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research targets the ways that young children think about the minds of others, how they reason about unseeable behaviors such as thoughts, beliefs, and desires, and how they learn to distinguish self from other (in terms of perspective-taking, memory, and imitation). Teaches courses in typical child development, as well as autism and non-human primate cognition. At Bard since 2007.



    Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance; Director, Center for Human Rights and the Arts
    Office: Center for Civic Engagement - Barringer House, Hegeman 301
    Website: https://taniaelkhoury.com
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    Tania El Khoury is an artist who creates interactive installations and performances that reflect on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work is activated by tactile, auditory, and visual materials collected and curated by the artist and her collaborators, which are ultimately transformed through audience interaction. El Khoury’s work engages questions of displacement, border systems, privatization, and the politics of space, exploring how they are shaped through nation-building projects and colonial legacies. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 33 countries across six continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award (2023); Soros Art Fellowship (2019); Bessie Award for Outstanding Production (2019); International Live Art Prize (2017); GOOD 100, GOOD magazine’s list of people from around the globe who are improving the world; Total Theatre Innovation Award (2011), and Arches Brick Award (2011). She is also the recipient of grants from, among others, the British Council, Arts Council England, and Arab Fund for Arts and Culture; and residencies at Campbelltown Arts Centre in Australia, Spielart Festival in Munich, Fierce Festival in Birmingham, Long Island’s Watermill Center, and BankART Gallery in Yokohama. El Khoury is associated with Forest Fringe, a collective of artists in the United Kingdom, and is cofounder of Dictaphone Group in Lebanon, a live art and urban research collective. She cocurated Tashweesh, a festival on feminist practices in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Europe, taking place across the three cities of Tunis, Brussels, and Vienna in 2022.

    She also cocurated the 2023 edition of Live Arts Bard at the Fisher Center, Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food, and the 2019 edition, Where No Wall Remains: An International Festival about Borders. Recent artworks include Memory of Birds (2023); Cultural Exchange Rate (2019); The Search for Power (2018); As Far As My Fingertips Take Me (2016); Gardens Speak (2014), and others.

    Her publications include The Search for Power (2020) and Gardens Speak (2016), both published by Tadween Publishing; “Camp Pause: Stories from Rashidieh Camp and the Sea,” in Jadaliyya; “Performing the Arab,” in Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research; “The Contested Scenography of The Revolution,” “Two Live Artists in the Theatre,” and “Swimming in Sewage, Political Performances in the Mediterranean,” in Performance Research; and “We Are All Witnesses: The Arab Spring in Photos and Electronic Wars” and “Spaces and Bodies in Arab Revolutionary Art” in Journal of Palestine Studies.

    BA, Institute of Fine Arts, Lebanese University; postgraduate certificate, School of Physical Theatre, London; MA, Goldsmiths, University of London; PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London. At Bard: 2019; 2020– .



    Jay Elliott, Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Office: Aspinwall, 101
    Phone: 203-988-5761
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    B.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University. Has previously taught at Yale, The New School for Social Research, and Iona College. His first book, Character, was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2017. His articles and reviews have been published in many leading journals, including Ancient Philosophy, Augustinian Studies, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Film and Philosophy, and Philosophy and Literature. He is coeditor, with James Conant, of the Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy, After Kant: The Analytic Tradition. He is also a consulting editor of Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. At Bard since 2013.



    Yuval Elmelech, Associate Professor of Sociology; Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute
    Office: Seymour, 304
    Phone: 845-758-7547
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    Yuval Elmelech’s research interests include social stratification, race, ethnicity and immigration, poverty, and housing inequality. His recent book Wealth (Polity Press, 2021) illuminates the various, often elusive, ways in which personal wealth is accumulated and unevenly distributed. Blending theoretical approaches with empirical evidence, the book describes how wealth trajectories over the life course, and across generations, are shaped by powerful macro- and meso-level forces that include multiple markets, changing demographic landscapes, and persistent inter-group wealth disparities. Publications also include Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the American Family (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), book chapters, and journal articles in Social Forces, Social Science Research, Sociological Inquiry, and Housing Studies, among others. He teaches courses on social inequality, the sociology of the family, Israeli society, quantitative research methods, and contemporary social problems.

    BA, MA, Tel Aviv University; PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2001.



    Omar G. Encarnación, Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics in the Division of Social Studies
    Office: Aspinwall, 211
    Phone: 845-758-7230
    Website: https://politics.bard.edu/faculty
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    Omar G. Encarnación’s teaching and research interests include South American and Southern European politics, especially democratization, social movements, and LGBTQ politics. He is the author of Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship (Polity Press, 2008); Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014); Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2017);The Case for Gay Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2021); and Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars (Oxford University Press, 2025). His academic writing appears in Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, West European Politics, Southern European Politics and Society, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Human Rights Quarterly, Ethics & International Affairs, and Latin American Research Review. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Time, World Policy Journal, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Times Literary Supplement, History Today, and The New York Review of Books.

    Professor Encarnación received his PhD in politics from Princeton University, where he was the recipient of the Presidential Fellowship.  His research has been supported by the Council for European Studies, Fulbright-Hays Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Ford Foundation, and National Research Council. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute in Madrid, Center for Latin American Studies of Georgetown University, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Association.  He currently chairs APSA’s Ethics Committee and sits on the editorial board of Perspectives on Politics.

    At Bard since 1998.



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Bard has a long history of creating inclusive environments for all races, creeds, ethnicities, and genders. We will continue to monitor and adhere to all Federal and New York State laws and guidance.
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