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Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor of film and electronic arts; director, Film and Electronic Arts Program. Photo by Chris Kayden

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David Bloom ’13 MM ’15. Photo by Bruce Kung

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“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

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

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

President Botstein Awarded 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.

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

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Bard Musician Franz Nicolay Testifies in Congress

Bard Musician Franz Nicolay Testifies in Congress

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
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
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
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.

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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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Simon Gilhooley, Associate Professor of Political Studies
Office: Aspinwall, 207
Phone: 845-758-7556
Website: https://www.simongilhooley.com
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Simon Gilhooley specializes in American politics and political thought. His research addresses issues of constitutionality and authority within the American polity. His book The Antebellum Origins of the Modern US Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding explores the development of the idea of the Constitution as representative of a historical spirit and the emergence of this idea within the historical context of antebellum slavery. Professor Gilhooley’s research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Library Company of Philadelphia, and McNeil Center for Early American Studies, among others. He teaches courses on contemporary American politics, American political history, American political thought, and constitutional practice. Before coming to Bard, he taught at Ithaca College.

Recent publications include “Founding Authority: Authority, John Marshall, and the Supreme Court in the American Founding,” British Journal of American Legal Studies 11:2 (2022); and “‘An Affair of History, Law, and Institutions’: William Graham Sumner’s Historical Method and the Responsibility of the Individual,” American Political Thought 10:4 (2021).

MA, University of Edinburgh; MA, University of London, Institute for the Study of the Americas; MA, PhD, Cornell University. At Bard since 2013.

Joshua Glick, Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts
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Professor Glick is a film and media studies scholar focusing on the comparative histories of film, television, and radio; nonfiction media; race and representation; and the civic uses of emerging technology. He is the author of Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History (University of California Press, 2018). His articles and reviews have appeared in Film History, Immerse, Afterimage, World Records, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, The Moving Image, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Professor Glick’s current book project explores how the rising interest in nonfiction on both the left and right of the political spectrum has transformed the relationship between Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Washington D.C. In collaboration with the Center for Advanced Virtuality at MIT, he designed the interactive online curriculum, Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes. Professor Glick also cocurated Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen, an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

BA, Cornell University; MA and joint PhD (film and media studies, American studies), Yale University. At Bard since 2022.

Beka Goedde , Artist in Residence
Phone: 845-758-6822
Website: https://bekagoedde.com
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B.A., Columbia University; M.F.A., Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. Recent solo exhibitions: Fictitious Force, a public installation in partnership with New York City Parks and Recreation; Matters of Fact, GRIDSPACE, Brooklyn; and One Revolution per Week, PS122 Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions at venues including, in New York, Deborah Berke & Partners, International Print Center, SHOW ROOM, Gowanus Studio Space, Bushwick Cooperative, Artgate Gallery, Flux Factory, and Center for Book Arts; and at Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; Helen Day Art Center, Vermont; Joshua Tree Art Gallery, California; and Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna. Recipient of 2015 Brooklyn Arts Council Award and residencies including Yaddo, Joshua Tree Highlands, Millay Colony, PS122, and Women’s Studio Workshop, among others. Contributor to 10-year anniversary edition of Edna, journal of the Millay Colony; Collapse of the Home: NYC; and Triple Canopy (commissioned video essay), among others. Selected press: Time Out New York, New York Times, Dwell, and Artforum. At Bard since 2015.

Eban Goodstein, Director, Center for Environmental Policy; Director and faculty, Bard MBA in Sustainability
Department(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7067
Website: https://www.bard.edu/cep/
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B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Prior to Directing the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Goodstein had a 20-year career as a Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark and Skidmore Colleges. From 2006-2009, Goodstein led the National teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, coordinating educational events at over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2007) now in its fifth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999). His most recent book is Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England: 2007). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record and Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the Steering Committee of Economics for Equity & the Environment, and is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.

Jacqueline Susan Goss, Professor of Film and Electronic Arts
Office: Ottaway Film Center, 324
Phone: 845-758-7366
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B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Recent video and web-based works include Stranger Comes to Town (2007), How to Fix the World (2004), There, There, Square (2002), The 100th Undone (2001). Recent exhibitions and screenings at American Museum of Natural History, Eyebeam Atelier, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Film Festival, London Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives. Recipient, Alpert Award in the Arts (2007), DAAD Fellowship (2005), Creative Capital Award (2005), Jerome Foundation Award (2003), New York State Council on the Arts Award (2002), New York Foundation for the Arts Award (1998). Contributor to gURL, alt-x, and beehive websites. At Bard since 2001.

Stephen Graham, Visiting Professor of Literature
Office: Aspinwall, 203
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B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.F.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include fiction, poetry, and prose of the Victorian period. Adjunct professor, New School for General Studies, New York City. Has taught writing, composition, and British literature at Columbia. At Bard since 2006.

Valentina Grasso, Assistant Professor of History
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Valentina Grasso comes to Bard from Catholic University of America, where she taught in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures. She previously taught at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and was an affiliate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Qur’an as a Source for Late Antiquity” and the Cambridge Silk Road Program. Grasso has participated in archaeological projects in Iraqi Kurdistan, Sicily, Ethiopia, and Jordan; and pursued additional study in Classical Armenian, Coptic language, Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscripts, Moroccan Arabic, and Islamic archaeology, among other subjects. Professor Grasso’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge was published as a monograph, Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults, and Identities during Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2023). A second monograph, Trading Faiths: From the Battle of Edessa to the Sack of Baghdad (260–1258 ce) is in preparation. Publications also include the forthcoming “Indian Ocean Figures that Sailed Away,” proceedings of the ISAW Roundtable Seminar Series; journal articles, book chapters, reviews, and reports in, among others, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Late Antiquity, The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and Journal of Roman Studies.

BA, University of Catania; MA, University of Naples; PhD, University of Cambridge. At Bard since 2023.

Brent Green, Visiting Artist in Residence
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Brent Green is a self-taught artist and filmmaker whose films have screened, often with live musical accompaniment, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Walker Art Center, Hammer Museum, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. His work, which also includes sculptural pieces and large-scale installations, is in the permanent collections of MoMA, Arizona State University, the Hammer Museum, and the Progressive Art Collection. He is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence, Sundance Director’s and Writer’s Labs, San Francisco Film Society (SSFS) Hearst Screenwriting Grant, and Peggy Irving Foundation and Creative Capital grants, among others. His films include Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, Carlin, Hadacol Christmas, and Paulina Hollers. Green is represented by the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York City. At Bard since 2017.

Matthew Greenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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A 2015 graduate of Bard College, Matthew Greenberg returns to Annandale after serving as a postdoctoral research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At Brookhaven, which is dedicated to research in nuclear and particle physics aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of matter, energy, space, and time, Professor Greenberg worked with the computational sciences division to use machine learning to predict reaction conditions for tuning photophysical properties (emission energy, quantum yield emission linewidth) of CsPbX3 nanocrystals from in-line flow reactor measurements, among other projects. He also served as a graduate researcher at Columbia University, where he taught general chemistry and organometallics courses, and completed his PhD thesis, “Formation Mechanism of the Monodisperse Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots: A Study of Nanoscale Nucleation and Growth.” His work has been published in ACS Omega, Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society, among others.

BA, Bard College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2021.

Jacob Grossberg, Professor Emeritus of Sculpture
Phone: 845-758-8224
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B.A., M.F.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University. Instructor, Brooklyn College; Teachers College, Columbia University; Pratt Institute; assistant professor of fine arts, Philadelphia College of Fine Arts. Solo exhibitions: Aegis Gallery, Rose Fried Gallery, Max Hutchinson Gallery; group shows at Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania Academy Annual, Indianapolis Museum of Art; many others. (1969–96) Professor Emeritus of Sculpture.

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