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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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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.

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
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
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

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Franco Baldasso, Assistant Professor of Italian; Director, Italian Studies; Director, Study Abroad Program in Italy
Office: Seymour, 206
Phone: 845-758-7377
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Franco Baldasso is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome after receiving the 2019 Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies. His recent publication, Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy, published in 2022 by Fordham University Press, received the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, awarded by the Society of Italian Historical Studies. He also published in Italian: Il cerchio di gesso. Primo Levi narratore e testimone (Pendragon, 2007), and Curzio Malaparte, la letteratura crudele. Kaputt, La pelle e la caduta della civiltà europea (Carocci, 2019). He coauthored L’età di Whitman” e l’esilio. L’America inedita di Paolo Milano (Mimesis, 2022, with Valerio Angeletti), coedited Eredità culturale e memoria dei totalitarismi (Pearson, 2024, with Franca Sinopoli), a special issue of NeMLA-Italian Studies titled Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories (2014, with Simona Wright), and a special issue of Annali d’Italianistica titled 50 Years of La Storia: Elsa Morante Beyond History (2024, with Ursula Fanning, Mara Josi, Stefania Porcelli, Katrin Wheling-Giorgi). His articles have appeared in Modern Language Notes, Romance Notes, the Italianist, Context, Annali d’Italianistica, Allegoria, Comparatismi, Poetiche, and Scritture Migranti.

Franco is the recipient of many awards, including a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, the Remarque Institute Visiting Fellowship, the Center for Italian Modern Art Affiliated Fellowship at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the A. W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. He is on the editorial board of the journals Allegoria, Novecento Transnazionale, Status Quaestionis, and Studi (e testi) italiani. He is a member of the Society of Fellows of the AAR, of the “Collegio del Dottorato in Italianistica” at Sapienza University in Rome, and of the scientific committee of the Archivio della Memoria della Grande Guerra of the Centro Studi sulla Grande Guerra “P. Pieri” in Vittorio Veneto (TV).

His new book project, in which he discusses Italian Fascism’s difficult heritage from monumental architecture to colonialism, is titled The Ruins of Fascism: Reframing Political Nostalgia in the Global Mobility of Ideas.

Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Bologna; MA, PhD, New York University. At Bard since 2015.

Mara Baldwin, Visiting Artist in Residence
Website: https://www.marabaldwin.com
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Mara Baldwin is an artist whose work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between the Hudson Valley and Ithaca, New York, where she teaches drawing at Bard College and Cornell University, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall. Recent solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum at Cornell University; Rosefsky Gallery at Binghamton University; String Room Gallery at Wells College; Davis Gallery at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Concepto Hudson; and Corners Gallery, Ithaca, New York. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Everson Museum of Art in summer 2023. Baldwin and her partner, Sarah Hennies, run a gallery and event space during the summers called Neighbors out of their pole barn garage in Ithaca, New York.

BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, California College of the Arts. At Bard since 2022.

Thurman Barker, Professor Emeritus of Music
Phone: 845-758-7572
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B.A., Empire State College; additional study at Roosevelt University and the American Conservatory of Music. Taught at Creative Music School, Cornish Institute, and American Conservatory of Music and lectured and gave demonstrations in New York City public schools. Grants:

Karen Barkey, Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion
Website: https://www.karenbarkey.com
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Karen Barkey’s research has been engaged in the comparative and historical study of the state, with special focus on its transformation over time. Her work has explored state society relations, peasant movements, banditry, and opposition and dissent organized around the state. Her main empirical site has been the Ottoman Empire, in comparison with France and the Habsburg and Russian Empires. She also pays attention to the Roman and Byzantine worlds as important predecessors of the Ottomans. Her book Empire of Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2008) explores issues such as diversity, the role of religion in politics, Islam and the state as well as the manner in which the Sunni-Shi’a divide operated during the tenure of the Ottoman Empire—topics that remain relevant today. Barkey, who was born in Istanbul, is also coauthor of Choreography of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution (Columbia University Press, 2014), which explores the history of shared religious spaces in the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine/Israel, regions once under Ottoman rule. Recent publications include Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan and Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Shared Sacred Sites: A Contemporary Pilgrimage (City University of New York Publications, 2018). Barkey was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean Studies, IMéRA, Marseille for 2021–2022, and has served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering and Belonging Institute; director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion; and codirector of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion. She also taught at Columbia University, where she was director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.

BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, University of Washington; PhD, University of Chicago. At Bard since 2021.

Diane Barkstrom, Visiting Lecturer
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Diane Barkstrom is an American Sign Language/English Interpreter who holds certificates of interpretation and transliteration from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. In addition to her private practice, Barkstrom has served as adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz, Dutchess Community College, Columbia-Greene Community College, and Erie County Community College. She has served as trainer for educational interpreters at the Rochester Institute of Technology National Technical Institute for the Deaf and as club adviser and ASL instructor at Bard College. She has also taught ASL as a foreign language in the Red Hook Central School District and in the Adult Continuing Education Program at Ulster Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

BA, SUNY Empire State College; MA coursework, SUNY New Paltz. Also studied ASL-English interpreting at Deaf Adult Services in Buffalo, New York, and Northeastern University. At Bard: Spring 2023.

Valerie Barr, Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Office: Reem-Kayden Center, 204
Website: https://vbarr4.github.io/
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Valerie Barr is a groundbreaking computer scientist who has been a national leader in efforts to broaden participation in computing and connect the field to a wide array of liberal arts disciplines. She comes to Bard from Mount Holyoke College, where she was chair of the Computer Science department, and is eager to explore what students, and not just computer science students, “need to know about computing in order to actively critique and challenge the current pace and impact of technological change.”

In addition to teaching, Barr has been involved with curriculum development and computing education. Her research projects have been funded repeatedly over the past two decades by the National Science Foundation. Her research interests also include reanalyzing degree attainment data to better identify and understand long-standing trends in the areas of gender, race, and ethnicity, and in software testing, particularly as applied to artificial intelligence and language processing systems. In addition to Mount Holyoke, she has taught at Union College, Hofstra University, Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University.

BA, Mount Holyoke College; MS, New York University; PhD, Rutgers University. At Bard since 2022.

Photo by Shaunessy Renker ’23

Valérie T. Bart, Visiting Artist in Residence, Theater
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Valérie Thérèse Bart is a costume and scenic designer for the theater and opera, with occasional film, and television experience. Her work reflects her belief that design is an integral aspect of storytelling, with designers approaching a script as a director or actor would, asking the questions who/what/why/when/how. Born in France to Vietnamese refugee parents, the New York–based Bart has served as costume designer for numerous productions, including the world premieres of You Lost Me at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Wives at Playwrights Horizons; Something Clean at the Roundabout Theatre; Vietgone, at Houston’s Alley Theater; Annie Get Your Gun at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor; Much Ado about Nothing at the 2019 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Into the Woods, at The Juilliard School; and Rigoletto, at the Minnesota Opera. She was scenic designer for productions at, among other venues, Wolf Trap Opera, Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and Yale Repertory Theater. She has had film/TV experience as a costume designer, stylist, and assistant/shopper for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

BA, University of California Los Angeles; MFA, Yale School of Drama. At Bard since 2023.

Thomas Bartscherer, Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
Department(s): Language and Thinking Program
Office: Hegeman Science Hall, 303
Phone: 845-758-6822
Website: https://historyoflife.net/thomas-bartscherer
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Thomas Bartscherer works in the humanities and the arts and on the study of liberal education and politics. Current projects include the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind, which he is coediting for the Complete Works series, and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, which he is coediting for Cambridge University Press. With composer Dylan Mattingly, he has created Stranger Love, a six-hour opera commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, premiering at the LA Phil’s Disney Hall in 2023. He also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is coeditor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press. He has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich and was a Senior Fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He was director of Bard’s Language and Thinking Program from 2010 to 2015 and is a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. At Bard since 2008.

Sanjib Baruah, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies
Office: Aspinwall, 105
Phone: 845-758-7204
Website: https://bard.academia.edu/SanjibBaruah
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Professor Baruah’s teaching and research interests include political economy, nations and nationalism, Asian borderlands, and South Asian Politics. His publications include India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999); Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2005); Postfrontier Blues: Towards a New Policy Framework for Northeast India (East-West Center, 2007); and the edited volumes Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010). His opinion pieces appear in the Indian Express and other newspapers. Baruah serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Indian Politics (Sage Publications) and the book series South Asia in Motion from Stanford University Press. He holds a concurrent position as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. A number of his books are available in the Oxford India Paperbacks series. BA, Cotton College, Guwahati, India; MA, University of Delhi; PhD, University of Chicago. At Bard since 1983.

DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance
Office: Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
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DN Bashir is a playwright, theater-maker, and assistant professor of theater and performance at Bard College. Their accolades include the Fisher Center LAB Residency, MacDowell Residencies (2016, 2023), BAU Institute Residency at Camargo, Catwalk Institute Residency, and the 2021 Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting from the New York Community Trust, among others. They are a two-time recipient of the NYSCA Playwright Grant Award.

Bashir’s work has been commissioned, developed, and supported by organizations such as Jack Arts, Soho Rep, WP Theater, the Playwrights’ Center, Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, the Dutchess County Historical Society, and the Fire This Time Festival. Published works include contributions to Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster) and The Immeasurable Want of Light (MacDowell, 3 Hole Press, (Writ)ual MixFest at Atlantic Theater). Notable stage plays include Night of Power, Room Enough (MacDowell, Playwrights’ Center), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (Soho Rep), and Emily Black is a Total Gift (New Georges). Digital Media have screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art-London, England, Women in the Director’s Chair International Film Festival, Chicago and MIX Experimental Film and Video Festival, NYC.

Bashir’s theatrical works critique nonfunctional social systems through a fusion of traditional and experimental forms across stage and digital media. Known for biting humor and incisive narratives, Bashir bridges the chasm between carceral captivity and abolitionist creative praxis, transporting audiences to radically reimagined worlds and offering glimpses of reparative, alternative futures.

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. At Bard since 2021.

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