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Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses Budget Deficit and Government Financing

Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva recently spoke on WAMC’s Roundtable and Marketplace.

Pocketbook Issues Such as Raising Minimum Wages, Paid Leave, and Protecting Public Education Could Sway the American Electorate, New Levy Economics Institute Report Says

"Americans are far more progressive than either party gives them credit for. Whatever path forward Democrats choose, winning back the working class would be a long process without a big and bold vision,” says coauthor Pavlina R. Tcherneva.

Pocketbook Issues Such as Raising Minimum Wages, Paid Leave, and Protecting Public Education Could Sway the American Electorate, New Levy Economics Institute Report Says

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Long-Term Voting Trends Show Democrats Losing Working Class Support Due to Absence of Clear Vision for Popular Progressive Economic Policies

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College has published a policy brief outlining economic policies that improve the lives of working-class families and could sway the American electorate. That “Vision Thing”: Formulating a Winning Policy Agenda, Levy Public Policy Brief No. 158, coauthored by Levy Economics Institute President Pavlina R. Tcherneva and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray, analyzes the shifting allegiances of American voters over the decades as the Democratic Party lost the support of its traditional base—blue-collar and rural counties—and came to be seen as the party of the educated elite, socially liberal, and relatively economically secure.

“Trump was the beneficiary of a long-term retreat of working-class voters from the Democratic Party. But becoming the party of the economically secure in a world of runaway inequality, rising precarity, and widespread frustration with many aspects of the economy does not and will not win elections. Still, as we show in this report, Americans are far more progressive than either party gives them credit for. Whatever path forward Democrats choose, winning back the working class would be a long process without a big and bold vision,” says Tcherneva.

For the first time since 1960, Democrats earned a greater margin of support among the richest third of American voters in 2024 than they did among the poorest or middle third. Meanwhile, Trump gained more vote share in counties rated as distressed—and gained less in prosperous counties—despite those counties benefiting significantly and performing better economically under President Biden’s policies that boosted government assistance. In spite of the Democratic focus on inequality, the party fails to reach the financially disadvantaged (who are the true swing voters) with their message, the report asserts.

“Democrats had neither delivered on nor even highlighted the changes that many voters wanted: policies that would provide economic benefits. They were tired of inflation that reduced purchasing power, wages that remained too low (even in supposedly good labor markets) to support their families, and many other issues related to economic precarity, including the costs of healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare and—for a significant portion—college,” write Tcherneva and Wray.

Assessing ballot measures and polling data, the Levy report identifies worker-friendly policies that would improve the wellbeing of the American working class and win elections. “Americans seem to apply two litmus tests to any proposed policy: (1) how will it impact American jobs and (2) how will it impact American paychecks,” they find. “If tariffs are expected to protect jobs, voters are behind them. If they hurt their paychecks, even conservative-leaning voters are strongly against them.”

Ballot measures indicate voters are more progressive than either party recognizes. Winning policies include: raising minimum wages, lowering taxes on earned income and social security (or eliminating them altogether for tips), making healthcare and education more affordable, protecting funding for public schools, increasing Pell grants, reducing the costs of higher education, and implementing paid sick and family leaves. Importantly, whenever asked, Americans strongly support federal programs of direct employment and on-the-job training—in the form of a federal job guarantee or national service for youths in jobs that support the community and the environment. They also care about rebuilding public infrastructure and investing in arts and culture.

Moreover, voters want policies that protect them from price increases, corporate greed, predatory interest rates, and hidden fees. They support more progressivity in the tax system and fewer tax loopholes for billionaires. They are tired of the dominance of billionaires in lobbying by special interests and campaign finance.

“Employment security, economic mobility, community rehabilitation, and environmental sustainability are winning messages. But they are especially powerful when anchored in concrete policies that directly deliver what they promise—good jobs, good pay, decent benefits, affordable health, education, food, and a peace of mind that Americans can care for loved ones without the threat of unemployment or price shocks or the loss of essential benefits,” the report concludes.

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Post Date: 03-10-2025

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Pavlina Tcherneva Joins WAMC’s Roundtable Panel on the State of the US Economy and How it Impacts Voters

Pavlina Tcherneva Joins WAMC’s Roundtable Panel on the State of the US Economy and How it Impacts Voters
Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva joined a panel of economists on WAMC’s Roundtable to discuss the economic issues that matter to voters and how each of the two presidential candidates’ policy proposals address them. “If you compare the two proposals, it’s very clear where they are directed. Trump’s proposals tend to favor corporations, high income earners, and they deal with a lot of dismantling of public institutions. ‘Defund, deport, deregulate, destroy.’ His message plays on economic fears and anxieties,” said Tcherneva. “In terms of the direction of her policies, Kamala Harris looks like she is trying to address housing issues, food prices, and drug prices but we don’t have concrete details yet.” Tcherneva also points to how deficit rhetoric is weaponized during election cycles as a tactic to scare people.

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Post Date: 09-26-2024
Business Insider Interviews Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva about the Job Guarantee

Business Insider Interviews Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva about the Job Guarantee

Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva.

Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva spoke to Business Insider about Universal Basic Employment (UBE), which is a job guarantee policy. Many countries around the globe have tested out UBE programs, but support for the policy has yet to catch on in America. “A job guarantee is really a public option for jobs. It’s a basic job that is provided irrespective of what the state of the economy is,” said Tcherneva, who is the author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020). “We can implement it now when the economy is in a relatively calm state and then be ready when business conditions slow down and people are laid off.” Although logistically more complicated to implement than universal basic income programs, UBE has long-lasting economic benefits, argues Tcherneva. UBE would fight inflation by establishing a minimum livable wage without increasing prices elsewhere, prevent labor shortages by supplying a willing and ready workforce, and mitigate sudden financial hardship. She believes UBE is on par with Social Security as a means to shore up economic stability and that pilot programs are unnecessary. “We didn't really pilot public education to figure out whether we wanted it,” Tcherneva said. The first American UBE pilot program will launch in Cleveland in 2026. Advocates see the potential to win more bipartisan support for UBE over simply giving people checks through universal basic income.

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Post Date: 08-20-2024
Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses the Recent Stock Market Sell-Off on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses the Recent Stock Market Sell-Off on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photo by Scott Beale CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva spoke with journalist Ian Masters about Monday’s panic on Wall Street and fears that it may presage a recession. “I’m not exactly sure if it’s a panic, or an opportunity to liquidate some positions,” said Tcherneva. “The real question for us is, would that then ripple through the rest of the economy? At this moment, I’m not detecting unsustainable processes in financial markets to cause the kind of effects on the real economy as we saw in 2008.” Tcherneva, who watches the data on labor markets and public investments very closely, believes that the US labor market still has significant room to grow, pointing out that we have yet to recover our employment-to-population ratio or labor force participation rate to pre-COVID levels. She believes the government needs to keep investing in the economy to sustain the recovery. “We set the economy on a really strong growth path in the last four years . . . If we pull out too quickly, if we allow an administration to impose drastic cuts to these public programs, this is where I think we can be certain that a recession will come.”

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Post Date: 08-06-2024
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President

Pavlina R. Tcherneva, president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College has appointed Pavlina R. Tcherneva as its next president, succeeding Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, who has held the role since its founding in 1986.

“After 38 years as president of the Levy Institute, the time has come to pass the baton to the new generation,” Papadimitriou announced. “I can think of no one better than Pavlina to lead the Levy Institute into its next phase of development in exploring solutions to the economic challenges that lie ahead.” Papadimitriou will remain at the Institute as president emeritus and senior scholar.

Tcherneva, who first joined the Levy Institute in 1997 as a forecasting fellow, has been a scholar at the Institute since 2007, specializing in modern money and public policy. She is a professor of economics at Bard College and founding director of the Bard-OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative. Her book The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020), one of the Financial Times economics books of 2020 and published in nine languages, is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today.

“I am honored and energized to take this new role and am grateful to Dimitri Papadimitriou for building a world-class institution that has influenced economic policy in the US and abroad. I am especially excited to support the work of my colleagues whose research has placed the Levy Institute among the most-cited non-profits in the world,” stated Tcherneva. “My mission is clear: to continue to curate cutting-edge research, grow our graduate programs, and amplify the Institute's impact on policy. We have produced some of the most influential work on financial instability, money, inequality, gender, and employment policy and we will continue to make these impacts and expand the Institute's reach.”

She added, “Our work matters. Financial markets crash. Mainstream theories fail. At the Levy Economics Institute, we will continue to do what we do best: make sense of the senseless, find patterns in the chaos of global economics, and produce actionable policies for a safe, sustainable, and stable economy.”

Since 1986, the Levy Institute and its scholars have reinvigorated heterodox economics, with contributions to macroeconomic theory, modeling, and policy targeting financial and economic stability for the US economy and the rest of the world. The Levy Institute has also developed a distinct research program on the distribution of income and wealth featuring two measures of economic well-being (LIMEW) and time and income poverty (LIMTIP) that will help shift official measures of living standards in the years ahead; is one of few institutions with a focus on gender equality and the economy; and has graduated scholars from its MA and MS degree programs in Economic Theory and Policy, who go on to play significant roles in economic think tanks, international organizations, governments, and the world of finance.

Post Date: 07-09-2024
Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva’s Work on the Job Guarantee Becomes Focus of US National High School Debate Topic

Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva’s Work on the Job Guarantee Becomes Focus of US National High School Debate Topic

Bard Professor of Economics and Research Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva.

Thousands of high school students across the United States have been studying the work of Bard Professor of Economics and Research Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva in preparation for their national debate tournaments. The official resolution for the 2023–24 High School Policy Debate Topic reads: “The United States federal government should substantially increase fiscal redistribution in the United States by adopting a federal jobs guarantee, expanding Social Security, and/or providing a basic income.” Tcherneva’s book The Case for a Job Guarantee was included in the compilation of research, which the Library of Congress prepares each year, pertinent to the annually selected national debate topic. As this year’s debate season progressed, the federal jobs guarantee policy has emerged as the overwhelming favorite policy for student debate teams on the affirmative. As a result, there are at least a few thousand students across the United States who have gotten very well acquainted with Tcherneva’s work over the past three months.

According to Chris Gentry, program manager of the Policy Debate League for Chicago Public Schools, “Almost every affirmative team across the country is running a jobs guarantee case, and to do so they are pulling heavily on Tcherneva’s publications.” During one weekend tournament, Gentry realized that essentially every debate relied on Tcherneva’s work. In just one round that he was judging, 10 different articles or books that she wrote had been quoted. “At least twice this last weekend, I heard ‘well that’s not what Tcherneva is trying to get at here,’” he added. Another high school debate coach in Los Angeles confirmed that Tcherneva has likely been the most cited author in high school debate this year, and as a result the student debaters are quite familiar with her work.

“Personally, I can’t think of a greater impact of my work than seeing young people engage with it, study it, and defend its principles,” says Tcherneva. After meeting with a group of high school student debaters this month, she adds, "The questions the students asked about the job guarantee were probing, well-informed, thoughtful, and inspired—with a keen focus on social justice. I hope that some of them will become policy makers.”

Inspired by this nationwide student engagement, Tcherneva has also opened up spots in her summer workshop “Public Finance and Economic Policy” to select high-school debate students interested in going deeper into Modern Monetary Theory and the job guarantee. Organized and hosted by Bard College and the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI), this five-day workshop taking place online June 17–21 is for undergraduate students interested in public policy to tackle economic instability and insecurity, and in understanding the financing capacity and policy space available to governments to pursue these aims. Applications from high school debate students will be reviewed in April and early May. Students can apply here.

Tcherneva also recently developed a resource tool jobguarantee.org, created and maintained by Bard College students and alumni, with the support of OSUN, for anyone interested in learning more about the job guarantee policy innovation.

Centered on the well-being of some of the most vulnerable parts of the US population, the 2023–24 national debate topic of “Economic Inequality” prevailed over “Climate Change” and represents a pressing issue at the forefront of our collective societal consciousness.

Post Date: 04-03-2024
Psychologist Sarah Dunphy-Lelii Considers the Politics of Sudden Power Transfer Among Chimpanzees

Psychologist Sarah Dunphy-Lelii Considers the Politics of Sudden Power Transfer Among Chimpanzees

Sarah Dunphy-Lelii.

In “The Chimpanzee Wars,” a recent post to Wild Cousins, her Psychology Today UK blog, Associate Professor of Psychology Sarah Dunphy-Lelii engages in a thought experiment about how the state of knowing and of understanding of who knows and who doesn’t know could potentially impact the politics of power transfer within dominance hierarchies of chimpanzees.

Among more than 200 Ngogo chimpanzees living in Kibale National Park, Uganda, one undisputed alpha named Jackson ruled for years until internal conflicts split the largest known chimpanzee community into two warring factions—Westerners and Centrallers. After Jackson is killed from injuries sustained in a battle, no younger alpha males step up to seize leadership of the Centrallers. A likely explanation, according to researchers, is that they didn’t know Jackson was dead. Only one Centraller, a potential alpha named Peterson, witnessed his death, and none found his body. Theoretically, Peterson could have used this position to his advantage. “Chimpanzees are socially sophisticated. Their dominance hierarchies are not based solely on physical strength. What we might call politics—the accumulation of social capital through strategic alliances over time—play a significant role in the rise to leadership. Under conditions like this one, between the Westerners and the Centrallers, insight into others’ states of knowledge could be decisive,” writes Dunphy-Lelii. She notes, however, that evidence to date suggests chimps, like Peterson, are not using this information the way humans would.

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Post Date: 05-02-2023

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M. Elias Dueker, Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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Helen Epstein, Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health
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B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Cambridge University; M.Sc., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Epstein is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports, 2017) and The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007; published in paperback as The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa, Picador, 2008). She has contributed articles to newspapers and journals including New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Lancet, among others. She has also served as an adviser to numerous international organizations on HIV prevention and as a consultant on public health in developing countries to UNICEF, World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and other organizations. At Bard since 2010.

Gidon Eshel, Research Professor
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B.A., Haifa University, Israel; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Professor Eshel specializes in oceanography, climatology, and geophysics. He is the author of Spatiotemporal Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2011) and the forthcoming Agrophelia and Food Math: From Stellar Nucleosynthesis to Your Plate. Recent publications include an article on sustainable beef production for Nature, Ecology, and Evolution and an analysis on the climate impact of intensive vs. pastoral beef that was highlighted in Nature’s Research Highlights. His work has also appeared in Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Earth Interactions, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, among other publications. Selected talks and outreach activities include the keynote address at the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences' 45th annual meeting (July 2017); an invited contribution to the website of and appearance in Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2016 Before the Flood; appearances on WAMC Public Radio’s Earth Wise, coproduced by the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, and NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook (2015); and presentations at MIT Water Summit, University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment; Harvard University; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Culinary Institute of America, among many others.

Recent honors include a Radcliffe Fellowship (2016–17) and PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellowship (2010–12). Eshel also serves as a senior research scientist for NorthWest Research Associates and as an independent consultant to environmentalCalculations.com, with his primary client the Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition. Previous positions include: Bard Center Fellow (2007–12); Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Science, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory (2002–07); principal investigator, Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago (2001–03); and associate scientist of physical oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1998–99). Eshel was assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago (1999–2007) before joining the Bard faculty in 2008.

John Esposito, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Office: Avery Center for the Arts, N206
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Website: https://sunjumprecords.com
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Musician, composer. Studied with Robert Ashley, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Frederick Rzewski. Has performed and/or recorded with Rashied Ali, Nick Brignola, Dave Douglas, Beaver Harris, Dave Holland, Carter Jefferson, Franklin Kiermyer, J. R. Montrose, Arthur Rhames, Sam Rivers, Roswell Rudd, Pharaoh Sanders, Bill Saxton, Woody Shaw, John Stubblefield, others. Recent recordings include The Blue People with the John Esposito Quintet (SunJump, 2006); Down Blue Marlin Road with the John Esposito Trio (SunJump, 2006); Extra Pressure with Eric Person and Meta-Four (Distinction Records, 1999). At Bard since 2001.

Jeannette Estruth, Assistant Professor of History
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Jeannette Alden Estruth is assistant professor of historical studies at Bard College, where she teaches American history. She also holds an affiliation with the Harvard Law School Berkman–Klein Center for Internet and Society. She received her doctorate in history, with honors, from New York University in 2018. From 2018 to 2019, Estruth was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2019, her book project was a finalist for the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. Estruth’s work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, University of Virginia Miller Center, Hagley Library, Huntington Library, NYU Henry MacCracken Fellowship, and Fulbright Program, among others. She was formerly the associate editor of the Radical History Review, and an editorial assistant at Harvard University Press.

Estruth is currently working on her book manuscript, The New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, which explores the history of social movements, the technology industry, and economic culture in the United States.

BA, Vassar College; PhD, New York University. At Bard since 2019.

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