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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

Bard Musician Franz Nicolay Testifies in Congress

The case concerned the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster which has resulted in a monopoly on event ticket sales in the United States.

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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
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 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
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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Petero Sabune, Faculty Member, BPI
Department(s): Bard Prison Initiative

Michael Sadowski, Associate Dean of the College
Department(s): Dean of the College, Master of Arts in Teaching
Office: Ludlow, 208
Phone: 845-758-7122
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Michael Sadowski is Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. He teaches courses in youth identity development in the MAT program and LGBTQ+ issues in U.S. education in the Human Rights Program. In addition to Bard, Michael has been an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he completed his doctorate, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2016-17.

Michael has published extensively on the issues affecting LGBTQ+ students, immigrant students, and adolescents more broadly. His 2016 book Safe Is Not Enough was featured by NPR and was cited by GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings as “the most important book written on LGBTQ issues in education in my lifetime.” His other books include In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood (Temple University Press, 2013), based on a seven-year longitudinal interview study, Portraits of Promise: Voices of Successful Immigrant Students (Harvard Education Press, 2013), and the edited volume Adolescents at School (Harvard Education Press, 2020), now in its third edition and used in teacher education programs around the country and abroad.

He also is the editor of the Youth Development and Education book series for Harvard Education Press and was editor of the Harvard Education Letter, for which he won a National Press Club Award. Michael is also a creative nonfiction writer. His memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, was shortlisted for the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the 30 Best Gay and Lesbian Books of All Time by Book Authority.

BS, Northwestern University; EdM, EdD, Harvard University.

Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Jomaira Salas Pujols’s research sits at the intersection of race, place, gender, and education. Her current book project, Black Girls Journeying, examines how Black girls draw on their movement through place to identify and challenge educational injustice—a concept she theorizes as journeying. In this manuscript, Professor Salas Pujols argues that Black girls’ emplacements in multiple spaces of learning (such as schools, afterschool programs, and social media) provide them with the insights, language, and tools to challenge policies and practices that harm them. This research has been published in the Youth & Society journal and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation. Professor Salas Pujols’s other research interests include the study of Afro-Latina girlhood, Black girls’ perceptions of school dress codes, and the racialized legacies of punishment in school. She teaches courses on race and ethnicity, the sociology of children and youth, education, and Black girlhood studies. Outside of her scholarly work, Professor Salas Pujols is also an experienced youth worker and community-based workshop facilitator. She is also a founding member of the Black Latinas Know Collective.

AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD candidate, Rutgers University. At Bard since 2022.

Angelica Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Music
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Angelica Sanchez is a pianist, composer, and educator whose music has been recognized in national and international publications, including Jazz Times, DownBeat, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times, which said “in her piano playing as well as her compositions, Angelica Sanchez seeks out the lyrical heartbeat within any avant-garde storm…” She has collaborated with such notable artists as Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, William Parker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rob Mazurek, and Nicole Mitchell. Professor Sanchez’s debut solo CD, A Little House, was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, and her recording with Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon, was selected as one of the best recordings of 2020 in New York City Jazz Record and one of the top 50 best recordings of 2020 in an NPR critics poll. Additional honors include a Civitella Ranieri Music Fellowship, Umbria, Italy; Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Composition Award; Pocantico Artist Grant, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and French-American Jazz Exchange Grant, Chamber Music American. She is a trustee of NewMusic USA and a committee member of the Jersey City Arts Council. She has performed at venues and festivals in the United States and abroad, including, among many others, the Trans-Pecos Festival, Marfa; Tectonics Festival, Glasgow; London Jazz Festival; the Kitchen, New York City; Vancouver Jazz Festival; and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She has served as lecturer and adjunct professor at William Paterson University Summer Camp, Columbia University, Princeton University; and the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.

BM, MM, William Paterson University. At Bard since 2022.

Lisa Sanditz, Artist in Residence
Office: Fisher Annex, 106
Phone: 845-758-7236
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B.A., Macalester College; M.F.A., Pratt Institute. Painter. Solo exhibitions at CRG Gallery and PS 122, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; ACME, Los Angeles; and Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; among others. Work in numerous public collections, including Columbus Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; and Dallas Museum of Art. Recipient, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. At Bard since 2009.

Marcela Santander, Visiting Artist in Residence
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Marcela Santander Corvalán, a Chilean native and Paris-based dancer, choreographer, and curator, is teaching at Bard as part of the Dance Program’s partnership with Villa Albertine / FACE Foundation (French-American Cultural Exchange). The mission of Villa Albertine is to bring together leading French and American thinkers, writers, artists, and activists for a series of dynamic and thought-provoking debates on topics central to today’s society, and to forge new relationships between the United States, France, and the French-speaking world. Santander and frequent collaborator Volmir Cordeiro are leading a dance repertory course based on the work of women artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. Santander studied theater and dance at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan and went on to earn a bachelor of performing arts degree in dance at University of Paris 8. She also studied history at Trento University and earned a National Superior Professional Diploma of Dance at CNDC Angers. At Bard: Fall 2023.

Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies
Office: Reem-Kayden Center, 218
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Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco is an architect, historian, and theorist. Her research explores architecture as an interface between contemporary forms of governance and capital. She is currently at work on an architectural genealogy of property regimes in Mexico. Her publications include: “From the Right to Housing to the Right to Credit: The Drama of Ownership in Mexico”, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City; “Potemkin Infrastructure”, Avery Review; “The Apparatus of Ownership” Scapegoat Architecture and Political Economy Journal, among others. As an architect, she has collaborated with Arup Integrated Urbanism, Foster + Partners, Wiel Arets, and Fernando Romero. As an educator, she has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Iowa State University’s College of Design, University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, and Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. Her work has been exhibited at Think Space in Zagreb, the Venice Biennale, and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, among other venues. She has been the recipient of several grants including a Collection Research Grant from the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal and a PhD fellowship from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts. BArch, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico; MArch, Berlage Institute, Netherlands; PhD, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK. At Bard since 2019.

Luisanna Sardu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
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Luisanna Sardu’s research and teaching interests explore the role of emotions in society; specifically, her research analyzes the use of anger in the texts of Italian and Spanish women writers of the Early Modern period. She comes to Bard from Manhattan College, where she taught Italian and Spanish language courses at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Conference presentations and recent publications, including book reviews, articles, and chapter contributions, address topics such as “Irony, Humor, and Laughter in Italian Literature (NeMLA, Boston); “What Do Epic Poems Teach Us about Emotions? Teaching about Anger in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Guilia Bigolina’s Urania,” Teaching World Epics, 2023; “Scrutinizing History, Translating Experience: Diario di una Maestrina, a Narrative of Action,” International Journal of Childhood and Women’s Studies, 2022. She also taught Spanish and Italian language and culture at Queens College; Bronx Community College; and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

BA, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy; MA, Florida Atlantic University; PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. At Bard since 2024.

Matthew Sargent , Assistant Professor of Music
Phone: 845-758-6822
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B.A., St. Mary’s College of Maryland; M.M. Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo. Previous teaching positions at the University of Hartford (2014–15) and SUNY Buffalo (2011–14), where he also served as technical director at the SUNY Center for 21st Century Music. Sargent's work has been presented in concerts and installations at the 2016 Frequency Festival at Constellation (Chicago), 2016 New York City Electronic Music Festival, Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), River Concert Series of the Chesapeake Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), SEM Ensemble’s “Emerging Composers” series (Brooklyn), SEAMUS National Conference at Lawrence University, June in Buffalo Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yale University Haskins Laboratories, the Machine Project (Los Angeles), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, among others. He is a 2016 composer-in-residence with Ensemble Mise-En (Brooklyn) and the I-Park Foundation. His work was recently anthologized in Experimental Music Since 1970 (Bloomsbury, 2016). At Bard since 2014.

Simeen Sattar, Professor of Chemical Physics
Office: Hegeman Science Hall, 202
Phone: 845-758-7226
Website: https://physics.bard.edu/faculty/
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Simeen Sattar has taught both general and physical chemistry to science majors and laboratory-based courses for nonscience majors that are inspired by her interests, including paints and the examination of paintings, photographic processes, starlight, the science of cooking, and nuclear and chemical weapons. Current research projects include replicating some early experiments in photography and using thin-layer chromatography to identify natural textile dyes. Her publications include articles in J. Chem. Educ., including “Characterizing Color with Reflectance” (cover article, 2019); “Writing with Sunlight: Recreating a Historic Experiment” (2018); “The Chemistry of Photography: Still a Terrific Course for Nonscience Majors” (2017); and “A Unified Kinetics and Equilibrium Experiment: Rate Law, Activation Energy, and Equilibrium Constant for the Decomposition of Ferroin” (2011). BA, Rosemont College; PhD, Yale University. At Bard since 1984.

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