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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

“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

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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Seth Halvorson, Visiting Associate Professor in the Humanities
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Seth Halvorson’s teaching and research interests include the history of ideas, policy analysis, global justice and cosmopolitanism, democracy, multiculturalism, civic and moral education, philosophy of law, and distributive and social justice. He comes to the College from Bard High School Early College Newark, where he is chair of the Department of History and Social Sciences. At BHSEC Newark, he taught high school– and undergraduate-level courses in political science, humanities, civics, ethics, argumentation and advocacy, and history of technology in America, among others. He was named Outstanding Newark Educator in 2014 and 2015, and was finalist for National History Teacher of the Year in 2011. He has also taught in Bard’s Language and Thinking program and led a tutorial, Revitalizing Democracy, at the College’s Annandale campus. Prior to his graduate education, he spent three years at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, where he was assistant coordinator of the Fellows Program. Publications include numerous peer-reviewed pieces for the Columbia Encyclopedia of Contemporary Civilization, ranging in subject from the life and works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton to discourses on inequality and the historical context of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

BA, Macalester College; MA, Stanford University; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard : 2022– .

Taylor Hart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
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Taylor Hart’s research interests include the dynamics and evolution of collective behavior and biological networks; mechanisms of social behavior and communication; evolution, development, organization, and function of neural circuits; olfactory sensory neurobiology; and ant behavior and ecology. Her graduate research in Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Social Evolution and behavior centered on “Transgenic tools in ants and the representation of alarm pheromones in the ant antennal lobe.” Postdoctoral research at Kronauer Laboratory involved studying the neural basis of age-dependent division of labor in ant societies. Honors and awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a $100,000 project grant, Kavli Neural Systems Institute at Rockefeller University. Professor Hart’s work has appeared in Cell, PLOS Biology, Scientific Reports, Nature Protocols, and Bioinformatics, among other publications.

BA, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College; PhD, Rockefeller University. At Bard since 2023.

Sarah Hennies, Assistant Professor of Music
Office: Edith C. Blum Institute, N107
Website: https://www.sarah-hennies.com/
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Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues, including queer and trans identity, love, intimacy, and psychoacoustics. Although primarily a composer of solo and chamber works, she is also active in improvisation, film, performance art, and dance. As a composer, she has received commissions from, among other performers and ensembles, Bearthoven (New York), Cristián Alvear (Santiago), Living Earth Show (San Francisco), Yarn/Wire (New York), and Thin Edge New Music Collective (Toronto). She has presented her work nationally and internationally, as both a composer and percussionist, at Le Guess Who? (Utrecht), Festival Cable (Nantes), O’Art Space (Milan), Café Oto (London), Alice (Copenhagen), Edition Festival (Stockholm), and ISSUE Project Room (New York), where in 2017 she premiered the widely acclaimed Contralto, a film and sound work that features a cast of transgender women accompanied by a live score for string quartet and three percussionists. Contralto has since been performed and screened at venues and festivals including Bent Frequency (Atlanta), La Sobilla (Verona), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), and Time-Based Art Festival (Portland, Oregon). Hennies is the recipient of a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and additional support from New Music USA, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, New York. She is the founder of the Weighter Recordings record label, which releases works by artists at the fringes of contemporary music, and a member of the improvised music trio Meridian, a duo with sound/performance artist Jason Zeh, and the Queer Percussion Research Group. BA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MA, University of California, San Diego. At Bard since 2019.

Frederic C. Hof, Senior Fellow at Bard Center for Civic Engagement
Department(s): Center for Civic Engagement
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Frederic C. Hof has had a distinguished career with the US Army, Department of State, and the international consulting firm AALC, specializing in the Mideast region. He served as ambassador and special adviser for transition in Syria under President Obama and as special coordinator for regional affairs in the US Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, where he conducted a back-channel peace mediation between Israel and Syria. A Vietnam veteran and graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Naval Postgraduate School, Hof also served as president and CEO of AALC (formerly Armitage Associates LC); as a US Army Middle East Foreign Area Officer; as the US Army attaché in Beirut; and as an officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 2001, he directed the Jerusalem field operations of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, headed by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, and was lead drafter of the committee’s report. As an Army officer, he helped draft the Long Commission report investigating the 1983 bombing of the US Marine headquarters at the Beirut airport. Both reports drew international praise for their fairness and integrity. Hof has written extensively on Lebanon, Syria, and Arab-Israeli issues. Publications include Galilee Divided: The Israel-Lebanon Frontier, 1916–1984 (1985); Line of Battle, Border of Peace? The Line of June 4, 1967 (1999); Beyond the Boundary: Lebanon, Israel, and the Challenge of Change (2000); Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace (2022); opinion pieces in Foreign Policy and The Atlantic; and numerous articles on Jordan Valley water issues. Awards and honors include the Purple Heart, Department of State Superior Honor Award, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. He has been teaching at Bard since 2018.

Michelle Hoffman, Deputy Director, Institute for Writing and Thinking; Faculty, Philosophy
Department(s): Institute for Writing and Thinking
Phone: 845-758-7432
Website: https://michelledhoffman.com
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Michelle Hoffman’s area of focus at Bard’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, where she is assistant director, is writing to learn in STEM disciplines. Her research focuses on the history of psychology and education. She has a particular interest in transfer of training, a body of experimental research that examines whether learning skills acquired in one area readily transfer to other domains—a question that strikes at the core of teachers’ work. Hoffman also teaches undergraduate courses in the history and philosophy of science and in the First-Year Seminar program. She previously taught at the American University of Central Asia, Bard’s partner in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as well as Bard’s Language and Thinking Program and Bard Prison Initiative. BSc, Concordia University; MA, PhD, University of Toronto; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, American University of Central Asia (AUCA). At Bard since 2015.

Kwame Holmes, Scholar in Residence, Human Rights
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Kwame Holmes, who has served as a faculty adviser to the Bard Prison Initiative and assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, is currently at work on his manuscript Queer Removal: Liberalism and Displacement in the Nation’s Capital, 1957–1999. He also serves on the board of directors for the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. Holmes’s research engages the intersection of race, sexuality, class identities, and politics within the history of the modern city. Publications include the articles and book chapters “Jessye Norman and the Struggle for Black Pathos,” Black Perspectives (2019); “The End of Queer Urban History?,” Routledge History of Queer America (2018); “Gaydar, Marriage, and Rip-Roaring Homosexuals: Discourses about Homosexuality in Dear Abby and Ann Landers Advice Columns, 1967–1982,” Journal of Homosexuality (2018); “Beyond the Flames: Queering the History of the 1968 D.C. Riot,” in No Tea, No Shade: Black Queer Studies, Vol. 2 (2016); and “What’s the T: Gossip and the Production of Black Gay Social History,” Radical History Review (2015). His review essays have appeared in publications such as TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Washington History, and English Language Notes. He has also authored encyclopedia articles for Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia and Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America. He is the recipient of numerous honors and fellowships, including postdoctoral fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia; Nicholson Graduate Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at Urbana Champaign; and Graduate Fellow, National Science Foundation GK–12 Program.

BA, Florida A&M University; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Bard since 2020.

Elizabeth M. Holt, Associate Professor of Languages and Literature
Office: unlisted
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Professor Holt is the author of Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel and articles, chapters, and reviews in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Culture, Journal of Palestine Studies, Research in African Literatures, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Arabic Literature, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. She was a 2015–16 fellow of the Berlin research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), for research toward a second monograph on Arabic literature in the Cold War, and is working on a third monograph, Solar Readings. Other honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2012); Fulbright scholar (2006–07); and Gerhardt Award of Distinction, American University in Cairo (2006–07). She is a member of the SSRC/University of Chicago Postcolonial Print Cultures Network and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arabic Literature, and serves as Program Committee Chair on the Board of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).

BA, Harvard University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2008.

Yarran Hominh , Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Website: https://www.yarranhominh.com
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Yarran Hominh’s research sits at the intersection of moral psychology and social and political philosophy, drawing on, among other traditions, the global pragmatist tradition in John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar. He is interested in how modern social and political institutions shape human agency, and how human agency can in turn be used to change those institutions. His current book project is entitled The Problem of Unfreedom. It examines the fundamental practical political question: Can those who are unfree free themselves? His other research interests include philosophy of law, ethics, colonialism, early modern European philosophy, Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Confucianism, critical Asian American philosophy, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is associate editor of The APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies. Recent published work can be found in the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Comparative Philosophy, The Philosopher, The Pluralist, and Res Publica.

Prior to joining Bard, Professor Hominh was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Lecturer in Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He has also taught philosophy and law at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. In other lives, he has also been a journalist, martial arts teacher, musician, and lawyer.

BA, LLB, LLM, University of Sydney; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2022.

Hua Hsu, Professor of Literature
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Hua Hsu is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (2016) and Stay True (2022), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hsu publishes Suspended in Time, a zine about music and life, and serves on the governance board of Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics and writers. He previously taught at Vassar College and Harvard University and was formerly a fellow at the New American Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Professor Hsu’s research and teaching interests include Asian American studies, transpacific studies, American and Indigenous Studies, narratives of place and space, popular culture and subculture, and literary nonfiction.

Thomas Hutcheon, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Office: Preston, 104
Phone: 845-758-7380
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Professor Hutcheon’s research focuses on cognitive control, which is defined as the ability to select relevant sources of information in the face of distracting or competing sources of information. As everyone has experienced, the efficiency of cognitive control varies. At times we find it easy to sit down at our computers and work on a paper. At other times we end up checking our email every three minutes. What causes this variability in performance? Professor Hutcheon’s research seeks to understand the mechanisms that support cognitive control, the factors that influence the efficiency of cognitive control, and how these are influenced by healthy aging. To address these issues, Professor Hutcheon uses a variety of behavioral and statistical techniques including computational modeling and response time distribution analyses. His work has been published in Teaching of Psychology; Acta Psychologica; The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; and Psychology and Aging, among others.

BA, Bates College; MS, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. Has taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Agnes Scott College. At Bard since 2014.

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