Skip to main content.
Bard
  • Bard College Logo
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics
    • Programs and Divisions
    • Structure of the Curriculum
    • Courses
    • Requirements
    • Academic Calendar
    • College Catalogue
    • Faculty
    • Bard Abroad
    • Libraries
    • Dual-Degree Programs
    • Bard Conservatory of Music
    • Other Study Opportunities
    • Graduate Programs
    • Early Colleges
  • Admission sub-menuAdmission
    • Applying
    • Financial Aid
    • Tuition + Payment
    • Campus Tours
    • Meet Our Students + Alumni/ae
    • For Families / Familias
    • Join Our Mailing List
    • Contact Us
  • Campus Life sub-menuCampus Life
    Living on Campus:
    • Housing + Dining
    • Campus Services + Resources
    • Campus Activities
    • New Students
    • Visiting + Transportation
    • Athletics + Recreation
    • Montgomery Place Campus
  • Civic Engagement sub-menuCivic Engagement
    Bard CCE
    • Engaged Learning
    • Student Leadership
    • Grow Your Network
    • About CCE
    • Our Partners
    • Get Involved
  • Newsroom sub-menuNews + Events
    • Newsroom
    • Events Calendar
    • Press Releases
    • Office of Communications
    • Commencement Weekend
    • Alumni/ae Reunion
    • Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
    • Fisher Center + SummerScape
    • Athletic Events
  • About Bard sub-menuAbout
      About Bard:
    • Administration
    • Bard History
    • Campus Tours
    • Mission Statement
    • Love of Learning
    • Visiting Bard
    • Employment
    • Support Bard
    • Global Higher Education Alliance
      for the 21st Century
    • Bard Abroad
    • The Bard Network
    • Inclusive Excellence
    • Sustainability
    • Title IX and Nondiscrimination
    • Inside Bard
    • Dean of the College
  • Giving
  • Search
An ad for Commencement and Reunion Weekend.
Information For:
  • Faculty + Staff
  • Alumni/ae
  • Families
  • Students
Giving to Bard
Quick Links
  • Apply to Bard
  • Employment
  • Travel to Bard
  • Bard Campus Map

Join the Conversation
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Instagram
Read about us on Threads
Watch us on You Tube
A man in a navy blue bomber jacket teaches in a seminar-style classroom.
Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor of film and electronic arts; director, Film and Electronic Arts Program. Photo by Chris Kayden

Bard Faculty

Academics Menu
  • Curric sub-menuCurriculum
    • Structure of the First Year
    • Courses
    • Requirements
  • Progs sub-menuPrograms + Divisions
    • Division of the Arts
    • Division of Social Studies
    • Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing
    • Division of Languages + Literature
    • Interdivisional Programs + Concentrations
  • Faculty
  • Resources menuResources
    • Academic Calendar
    • College Catalogue
    • Libraries
    • Dean of the College
  • Additional menuAdditional Study Opportunities
    • Dual-Degree Programs
    • Bard Abroad
    • Graduate Programs
    • Early Colleges
  • Academics Home
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.”
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

Faculty News 

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
President Botstein Awarded Honorary Degree and Bard Medal

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 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

More News

  • 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
     
    Watch the Congressional Hearing

    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.
    Watch the Episode

    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

Faculty Search

Click the link below to browse through an alphabetical list of Bard Faculty
  • Search Again

    Search Results

    Results 241-250 of 375 Previous PageNext Page

    Gregory B. Moynahan, Associate Professor of History; Coordinator, Science, Technology, and Society
    Office: Fairbairn, 106
    Phone: 845-758-7296
    Biography: expand/collapse
    B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Recipient, Bundeskanzler/Humboldt, DAAD, and Foreign Language Area Studies (Czech) fellowships. Specialization in modern European intellectual and cultural history and the history of science and technology. Research interests include history of the social sciences, systems theory, and computing/cybernetics in the two Germanys. Author, Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919 (2013, Anthem Press/London). Articles in Perspectives on Science, Science in Context, Simmel Studies, and Qui Parle. Associate Professor of History; Chair, Social Studies Division; Codirector, Science, Technology, and Society. At Bard since 2001.



    Ivan L. Munuera , Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Ivan L. Munuera is a New York–based critic and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the 2020 Harold W. Dodds Fellowship at Princeton University, where he is pursuing his doctoral dissertation on the architecture of HIV/AIDS. His research has been supported by PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. His work has been published in Log, Perspecta, The Architect’s Newspaper, and El País, among others. He developed the project Your Restroom Is a Battleground and directed the film Unzipped Parties. Open?, for the Venice Architectural Biennial (2021); coauthored the film The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, for The World Around Earlth Day Symposium (2020); and has curated projects at the Fundación Telefónica and ARCO Madrid, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and Istanbul Design Biennial, among other venues. He taught classes at Princeton, the University of Technology Sydney, and the Architectural Association, London, addressing subjects such as Tropical Modern: Architecture and Literature in La Habana; Infection: The Architecture of Pandemics; The Pathological Norm: Sick Architecture; Gender Justice Urbanism; and The Perversions of Modern Architecture: Loosening the Bauhaus.

    BA, MA, art history, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; MA, architecture, Princeton University; PhD, art history, Universidad Complutense; PhD candidate, Princeton University School of Architecture. At Bard: Fall 2021; Spring 2023.



    Michelle Murray, Associate Professor of Political Studies; Chair, Social Studies Division
    Office: Aspinwall, 208
    Phone: 845-758-7693
    Biography: expand/collapse
    B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, University of Chicago (2007–10); Deans Fellow in International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (2014–15). Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2006–07), Smith Richardson Foundation Summer Research Grant (2004/2006). Teaching and research interests include international relations theory; security studies; the politics of recognition among states; international history, especially pre-World War I Europe; and global governance and international organization. Her current research focuses on how the desire for status recognition shapes the military strategies of rising great powers, with a particular focus on American, British, and German naval strategy before the First World War. This work has appeared in the journals Security Studies and Global Discourse, and as chapters in edited volumes. She presents regularly at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and International Studies Association. At Bard since 2010.



    Matthew Mutter, Associate Professor of Literature
    Office: Aspinwall, 304
    Biography: expand/collapse
    B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Has contributed essays and reviews to English Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Wallace Stevens Journal, Insight, and other publications. Recent honors and awards include Paul C. Gignilliat Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08), John F. Enders Fellowship (2008), Beinecke Library Research Fellowship (2006). At Bard since 2010.



    Rufus Müller, Undergraduate Voice, Undergraduate Performance Workshop, Undergraduate Opera Workshop
    Office: Edith C. Blum Institute, 201
    Phone: 845-758-6822 x7352
    Website: https://rufusmuller.com
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Rufus Müller is a sought-after tenor who was acclaimed by the New York Times, following a performance at Carnegie Hall, as “easily the best tenor I have heard in a live Messiah.” He has performed internationally in operas, oratorios, and recitals. He performed the world premiere of Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed production of the St. Matthew Passion, which was broadcast on BBC TV and recorded for the United label; he repeated the role in three revivals of the production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Müller is also a leading recitalist, performing worldwide with pianist Maria João Pires, notably in an extended Schubertiade in London’s Wigmore Hall, and on tour in Spain, Germany, and Japan with Schubert’s Winterreise. Recent performances also include Bach’s Passions and Handel’s Messiah in New York, Princeton, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, D.C., Carmel Bach Festival, Royal Albert Hall, and Canterbury Cathedral; Monteverdi’s Vespers, Schubert’s Winterreise, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Ottavio) in Tokyo; Beethoven’s Choral Symphony in Pennsylvania; the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in St. Petersburg, Russia; and Haydn’s Creation in London, as well as recitals and master classes in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Born in Kent, England, Müller was a choral scholar at New College, Oxford, and studied in New York with the late Thomas LoMonaco. In 1985 he won first prize in the English Song Award in Brighton and, in 1999, was a prize winner in the Oratorio Society of New York Singing Competition. A list of performances and recordings can be found at his website, rufusmuller.com. BA, MA, University of Oxford. At Bard since 2006.



    Aily Nash , Visiting Instructor in Film and Electronic Arts
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Aily Nash is a New York–based curator and educator. As a programmer for the New York Film Festival, she serves on the selection committee for the Currents section of the festival. Her research takes her to international festivals, biennials, and conferences, and involves soliciting and selecting films and videos, liaising with artists, collaborating with marketing and technical teams, and coordinating public screenings and discussions. From 2014 to 2020, she was the curator of the Projections section of the festival, which presents artists’ film and video work exploring new territories of the moving image. She also serves as program advisor, short film section, for the International Film Festival Rotterdam; and has worked as head of programming for the 2018 Images Festival in Toronto; cocurator for the 2017 Whitney Biennial; curator at Basilica Hudson; program manager and editor for Berlinale Talent Press, a film criticism workshop; curator for Kinema Nippon; and film program assistant at the Japan Society in New York. Her independent curatorial work includes projects at international venues and festivals including Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Ghost:2561, Bangkok; and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; among others. Nash previously taught at CalArts and at the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library. Her work has been published in Film Comment, World Records, vdrome, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, and artforum.com, and she has contributed to exhibition catalogues for the Dallas Museum of Art and Whitney Biennial. 

    BA, Bard College; MA, City University of New York Graduate Center. At Bard since 2022.

     



    Serine Ndiaye, Faculty, Bard Prison Initiative (BPI)
    Department(s): Bard Prison Initiative



    Joshua D. Nelson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Joshua Nelson is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing in New York City, whose work has primarily been with adults, young adults, and teenagers who are dealing with depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol use, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder, relationship issues, and identity and life direction concerns. He received his PhD at Fordham University and was awarded a certificate in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy from New York University. He has been a private practitioner since 2006. His clinical and research experience also includes three years as a clinical associate for the New School Psychotherapy Research Program and two years as a research scientist (clinical psychotherapist) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/New York Presbyterian Columbia Medical Center. His work has been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Archives of Suicide Research, Journal of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, and Brain and Cognition. Nelson previously taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (MA Programs in Forensic Psychology), Middlebury College, and Fordham, where he was a distinguished teaching fellow.

    BA, Middlebury College; PhD, clinical psychology, Fordham University; Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, New York University. At Bard: Spring 2023.

     



    Daniel Newsome, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
    Website: https://www.mifami.org
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Daniel Newsome earned his PhD in history, specializing in medieval and early modern natural philosophy and mathematics. He is also well versed in physics, his major at Bard, and has a background in the fine arts and crafts, which he often incorporates into his academic pursuits. For example, a current research project on premodern and early modern heart anatomy involves dissection of pig hearts using period tools (some he forged himself) while following the instructions of Galen (second century), Mondino de Luizzi (14th century), Vasalius (16th), and Harvey (17th). At CUNY, his PhD dissertation, “Quadrivial Pursuits: Case Studies in the Conceptual Foundation of the Mathematical Arts in the Late Middle Ages,” focused on the Boethian formulation of the quadrivium, the four mathematical disciplines of the Middle Ages (number theory, music theory, geometry, and astronomy/astrology). His scholarly publications include “Directed Self-Inquiry: A Scaffold for Teaching Laboratory Report Writing,” in Journal of Chemical Education (2012) and “The Math, Music, Metaphysics, and Mysticism of the Quadrivium: The Four Paths to a Theory of Structure,” in Science, Technology, and the Humanities: A New Synthesis (2011). Newsome has given talks and participated in panel discussions at venues including Bard College, Woodburne Correctional Facility, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock, as well as at conferences including Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, and Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference. Outside of academia, his work has been exhibited at Atlantic Gallery, Sullivan Street Gallery, and Instituto de la Guitarra in New York. Newsome previously taught in Bard’s Citizen Science program and Learning Center, with the Bard Prison Initiative, and at Columbia University, New York University’s Gallatin School, and John Jay College, among others.

    BA, Bard College; PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York; additional studies, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. At Bard since 2019.



    Phuong Ngo, Assistant Professor of Japanese
    Office: Seymour, 105
    Phone: 845-758-6822 x6265
    Biography: expand/collapse
    Phuong Ngo’s primary area of interest is premodern Japanese literature, with a special focus on classical Japanese poetry (waka), the portrayal of the poetic persona, waka as performance, and multiple authorship in classical Japanese literature. Additional research and teaching interests include the development of genres during the period from the 9th century through the 12th, women’s writing, modern poetry, and the adaptation of classical Japanese literature in contemporary popular culture, particularly manga and anime. She is currently revising her dissertation, “Envisioning Lady Use: Poetic Persona, Performance, and Multiple Authorship in Classical Japanese Poetry,” into book format. She is the recipient of a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship as well as numerous fellowships and awards from Columbia and Wellesley, including the Ito Shinso Award for Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies; Shincho Graduate Fellowship for Study in Japan; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Heyman Center for the Humanities; and Columbia University Multiyear Faculty Fellow. Professor Ngo has also served as English-Vietnamese translator and copy editor at Long Minh Cultural and Educational Company in Hanoi and head coach for Vietnam’s 2023 and 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair team.

    BA, Wellesley College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University; also studied at Chuo University, Japan. At Bard since 2022.



    Results 241-250 of 375 Previous PageNext Page

A–Z Faculty List
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Susan Aberth
Ziad Abu-Rish
Kenyon Adams
Ross Exo Adams
Folarin Ajibade
Jasmine Akiyama-Kim
Kathryn Aldous
Richard Aldous
Jaime Osterman Alves
Craig Anderson
Sven Anderson
Victor Apryshchenko
Nathanael Aschenbrenner
Ephraim Asili
Andrew Atwell
Erin Atwell
Jordan Ayala

Academic Resources

  • College Catalogue
  • Academic Calendar
  • Bard Faculty
  • Graduate Studies
  • Bard Early Colleges
  • 3+2, 4+1, and Dual Degrees
Bard College
30 Campus Road, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
Phone: 845-758-6822
Admission Email: [email protected]
Information For
Prospective Students
Current Employees
Alumni/ae 
Families

©2026 Bard College
Quick Links
Employment
Travel to Bard
Search
Support Bard
Bard IT Policies + Security
Bard Privacy Notice
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.
Like us on Facebook
Follow Us on Instagram
Threads
Bluesky
YouTube