Catalogue

Bard College Faculty

For complete biographies see bard.edu/academics/faculty

Leon Botstein  President of the College; Chancellor, Open Society University Network
BA, University of Chicago; MA, PhD, Harvard University, Department of History. Music director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ); music director, The Orchestra Now; conductor laureate, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broadcasting Authority (2003– ). Guest conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madrid Opera, New York City Opera, ORF Orchestra (Vienna), Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, among others. Artistic codirector, Bard Music Festival (1990– ). Artistic director, Grafenegg Campus and Academy, Austria. Editor, The Musical Quarterly
(1992– ) and The Compleat Brahms (Norton, 1999); writer and editor of essays and chapters in numerous books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997). Board chair, Central European University; board member, Open Society Institute and the American Academy in Berlin. Honors include membership in the American Philosophical Society, Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, National Arts Club Gold Medal, Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, Leonard Bernstein Award, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bruckner Society Medal of Honor, and the Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago. Presented the 2010–11 Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The History of Listening.” (1975– ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.

Jonathan Becker  Executive Vice President; Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, Center for Civic Engagement; Vice Chancellor, Open Society University Network
BA, McGill University; DPhil, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Taught at Central European University, University of Kiev Mohyla Academy, Wesleyan University, Yale University. Author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of  the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999; new edition, 2002); and articles in European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, and Slovo, among others. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Political Studies. 

Michael Sadowski  Interim Dean of Graduate Studies
BS, Northwestern University; EdM, EdD, Harvard University. Author of Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students (2016); In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood (2013); Portraits of Promise: Voices of Successful Immigrant Students (2013); and editor of Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education (2008) and Teaching Immigrant and Second-Language Students: Strategies for Success (2004), as well as the Harvard Education Press book series on youth development and education. Director, Inclusive Pedagogy and Curriculum; Education Faculty, Bard MAT Program.

Deirdre d’Albertis  Dean of the College 
BA, Barnard College; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Author, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text; editor, Pickering and Chatto’s Works of Elizabeth Gaskell; and review editor, Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Publications also include essays on Victorian women of letters in Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (2016); Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Literature, 1830–1900 (2015); Afterlives of the Brontës: Biography, Fiction, and Literary Criticism (2014); Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (2008), and The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (2007). Articles and reviews in Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Victorian Studies; Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900; and Journal of the History of Sexuality. (1991–  ) Professor of English.

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ARTS  Division of the Arts
LANG/LIT  Division of Languages and Literature
SCI  Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing
SST  Division of Social Studies

Susan Aberth  ARTS
BA, University of California, Los Angeles; MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2000– ) Associate Professor of Art History.

Ziad Abu-Rish 
BA, Whitman College; MA, Georgetown University; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. (2019; 2020– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Human Rights. 

Ross Exo Adams  ARTS
BS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MArch, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam; PhD, London Consortium. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies.

Richard Aldous  SST
PhD, University of Cambridge. (2009– ) Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature.

Matthew Amos  LANG/LIT
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University. (2014– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of French.

Craig Anderson  SCI
BSc, MSc, University of Western Ontario; PhD, Université de Montréal. (2001– ) Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Professor of Chemistry; Director of Undergraduate Research, Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing. 

Sven Anderson  SCI
BA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; MA, PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington. (2002– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Kellan Anfinson  SST
BA, Macalester College; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. (2019– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Rania Antonopoulos  SST
BA, MA, PhD, New School University. (2001– ) Visiting Professor of Economics; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute.

Myra Young Armstead  SST
BA, Cornell University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (1985– ) Vice President for Academic Inclusive Excellence; Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies.

Ephraim Asili  ARTS
BA, Temple University; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. (2015– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Souleymane Badolo  ARTS
MFA, Bennington College. Dancer, choreographer, and founder of the Burkina Faso–based dance troupe Kongo Ba Téria. (2017– ) Artist in Residence.

James Bagwell  ARTS
BME, Birmingham-Southern College; MME, MMM, Florida State University; DM, Indiana University. (2000– ) Professor of Music; Codirector, Graduate Conducting Program; Academic Director, The Orchestra Now.

Franco Baldasso  LANG/LIT
Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Bologna; MA, PhD, New York University. (2015– ) Assistant Professor of Italian. 

Thurman Barker  ARTS
BA, SUNY Empire State; additional study at Roosevelt University and American Conservatory of Music. Jazz musician. (1993– ) Professor of Music.

Thomas Bartscherer  SST
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2008– ) Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities; Senior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Sanjib Baruah  SST
BA, Cotton College, Guwahati, India; MA, University of Delhi, India; PhD, University of Chicago. (1983– ) Professor of Political Studies.

Norton Batkin  SST
BA, Stanford University; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Director of the Graduate Program (1994–2007) and director (1991–94, 2002–05), CCS Bard; Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies (2005–20). (1991– ) Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History.

Laura Battle  ARTS
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Yale University School of Art. (1986– ) Professor of Studio Arts.

Clare Beams  LANG/LIT
BA, Princeton University; MFA, Columbia University. 2020 Bard Fiction Prize winner. (2020– ) Writer in Residence.

Jonathan Becker  SST
Executive Vice President; Vice President for Academic Affairs; Vice Chancellor, Open Society University Network; Director, Center for Civic Engagement; Associate Professor of Political Studies. See full bio above. 

Heather L. Bennett  SCI
BS, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; PhD, Brown University; PennPORT Fellow, neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.

Alex Benson  LANG/LIT
BA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Roger Berkowitz  SST
BA, Amherst College; JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, UC Berkeley. (2005– ) Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights; Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Daniel Berthold  SST
BA, MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Yale University. (1984– ) Professor of Philosophy. 

Ethan D. Bloch  SCI
BA, Reed College; MS, PhD, Cornell University. (1986– ) Professor of Mathematics.

Katherine M. Boivin  ARTS
BA, Tufts University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Art History. 

Leon Botstein  ARTS
President of the College; Chancellor, Open Society University Network; Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. See full bio above.

Jonathan Brent 
BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2004– ) Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature.

Emma Briant
BA, Coventry University; MRes, Glasgow Caledonian University; MSc, PhD, University of Glasgow. (2019– ) Visiting Research Associate in Human Rights.

James Brudvig  SST
MBA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Iowa. (1991– ) Professor of Philosophy.

Teresa Buchholz   ARTS
BM, University of Northern Iowa; MM, Indiana University; Artist Diploma, Vocal Performance, Yale University. Mezzo-soprano.
(2012– ) Artist in Residence.

Ken Buhler  ARTS
BFA, University of Iowa; MFA, Indiana University. Painter. (2000– ) Artist in Residence.

Charles Burnett  ARTS
BA, MFA, University of California, Los Angeles. Award-winning filmmaker. (2018–) Visiting Artist in Residence.

John Burns  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Maine–Orono; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (2019– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish.

Ian Buruma  SST
Studied at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan; honorary PhD in theology, University of Groningen. Writer, journalist. (2003– ) Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism.

David Bush  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, Yale University. (2010– ) Artist in Residence.

Paul Cadden-Zimansky  SCI
BA, St. John’s College, Santa Fe; MS, London School of Economics; MS, PhD, Northwestern University. (2012– ) Associate Professor of Physics.

Joshua Calvo  LANG/LIT
BA, Bard College; MA, PhD candidate, Princeton University. (2020– ) Visiting Instructor in Jewish Studies. 

Mary Caponegro  LANG/LIT
BA, Bard College; MA, Brown University. (2002– ) Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing.

Nicole Caso  LANG/LIT
AB, Harvard University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2004– ) Associate Professor of Spanish.

Maria Sachiko Cecire  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Chicago; MSt, DPhil, University of Oxford. (2010– ) Associate Professor of Literature.

Omar Cheta  SST
BA, magna cum laude, American University in Cairo; AM, University of Chicago; PhD, New York University. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Historical Studies.

Bruce Chilton  SST
BA, Bard College; MDiv, General Theological Seminary, ordination to the diaconate and priesthood; PhD, University of Cambridge.
(1987– ) Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Executive Director, Institute of Advanced Theology.

Odile S. Chilton  LANG/LIT
Licence ès Lettres, Mâitrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. (1987– ) Visiting Associate Professor of French.

Jean Churchill  ARTS
Dancer, choreographer. Former member, Boston Ballet Company. (1980– ) Professor of Dance.

Robert L. Cioffi   LANG/LIT
BA, Harvard University; MSt, University of Oxford; PhD, Harvard University. (2013; 2016– ) Assistant Professor of Classics.

Lindsay Walker Clark  ARTS
BFA, SUNY Purchase; MFA, Hollins University. (2017– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance.

Adriane Colburn  ARTS
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Stanford University. (2014– ) Artist in Residence.

Cathy D. Collins  sci
BA, Pitzer College; MS, University of Arizona; PhD, University of Kansas; postdoctoral research, Washington University. (2010–11; 2016– ) Associate Professor of Biology.

Ben Coonley  ARTS
BA, Brown University; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. (2010– ) Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Christian Crouch  SST
BA, Princeton University; MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University. (2006– ) Associate Professor of History.

John Cullinan  SCI
BA, Bates College; PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2006– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Robert J. Culp  SST
BA, Swarthmore College; MA, University of Michigan; MA, PhD, Cornell University. (1999– ) Professor of History.

Lauren Curtis  LANG/LIT
BA, MA, University of Oxford; PhD, Harvard University. (2013– ) Associate Professor of Classics.

Laurie Dahlberg  ARTS
BS, MA, Illinois State University; MA, PhD, Princeton University. (1996– ) Associate Professor of Art History and Photography.

Justin Dainer-Best  SCI
BA, Haverford College; predoctoral internship, University of Vermont; PhD, University of Texas at Austin. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Deirdre d’Albertis  LANG/LIT
Dean of the College; Professor of English. See full bio above.

Mark Danner  SST
BA, Harvard College. Journalist. (2003– ) James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities.

Richard H. Davis  SST
BA, University of Chicago; MA, University of Toronto; PhD, University of Chicago. (1997– ) Professor of Religion.
 
Tim Davis  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, Yale University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Photography. 

Adhaar Noor Desai  LANG/LIT
BA, Stanford University; PhD, Cornell University. (2014– ) Assistant Professor of Literature. 

Sanjaya DeSilva SST
BA, Macalester College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2000– ) Associate Professor of Economics.

Danielle Dobkin  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, DMA candidate, Columbia University. (2020– ) Visiting Instructor in Music.

Michèle D. Dominy  SST
AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, Cornell University. (2001–15) Dean of the College. (1981– ) Professor of Anthropology and Research Professor.

Daniella Dooling  ARTS
BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Yale University School of Art.
(2003– ) Artist in Residence.

Ellen Driscoll  ARTS
BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, Columbia University. (2013– ) Professor of Studio Arts.

M. Elias Dueker  SST
BA, Rhodes College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2014– ) Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies.

Sarah Dunphy-Lelii  SCI
BA, Pennsylvania State University; MA, PhD, University of Michigan. (2007– ) Associate Professor of Psychology.

Tania El Khoury  ARTS
BA, Institute of Fine Arts, Lebanese University; MA, Goldsmiths, University of London; PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London. (2019; 2020– ). Distinguished Artist in Residence.

Jay Elliott  SST
BA, New York University; PhD, University of Chicago. (2013– ) Associate Professor of Philosophy. 

Yuval Elmelech  SST
BA, MA, Tel Aviv University; PhD, Columbia University. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Sociology; Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute. 

Omar G. Encarnación  SST
BA, Bridgewater College; MA, University of Texas at Austin; PhD, Princeton University. (1998– ) Professor of Political Studies.

Helen Epstein  SST
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MSc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; PhD, University of Cambridge. (2010– ) Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health.

Gidon Eshel  SST
BA, Haifa University, Israel; MA, MPhil, PhD, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. (2009– ) Research Professor.
 
John Esposito  ARTS
Studied with John Cage, Elliott Carter, Frederic Rzewski. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Barbara Ess  ARTS
BA, University of Michigan. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Photography. 

Jeannette Estruth  SST
BA, Vassar College; PhD, New York University; additional studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. (2019– ) Assistant
Professor of History.

Tabetha Ewing  SST
BA, Bard College; MA, PhD, Princeton University. (1998– ) Associate Professor of History.

Nuruddin Farah  LANG/LIT
Somali novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter. Educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. (2013– ) Distinguished Professor of Literature.

Kris Feder  SST
BA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Temple University. (1991– ) Associate Professor of Economics.

Miriam Felton-Dansky  ARTS
BA, Barnard College; MFA, DFA, Yale University School of Drama. (2012– ) Associate Professor of Theater and Performance.

Jack Ferver  ARTS
Trained at Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance; Prague Center for Continuing Education. (2013– ) Artist in Residence.

Peter Filkins  LANG/LIT
BA, Williams College; MFA, Columbia University. (2007– ) Visiting Professor of Literature.

Katy Fischer  ARTS
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (2020– )  Visiting Associate Professor of Studio Arts.

Daphne Fitzpatrick  ARTS
Attended the School of Visual Arts, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. (2015– ) Artist in Residence.

Peggy Florin  ARTS
BFA, The Juilliard School; BA, SUNY Empire State College; MFA, Bennington College. (1998– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Dance.

Laura R. Ford  SST
BA, Pacific Union College; JD, Tulane University Law School; MPA, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; LLM, University of Washington School of Law; PhD, Cornell University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY Buffalo Law School. (2016– ) Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Elizabeth Frank  LANG/LIT
BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (1982– ) Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature.

Kenji Fujita  ARTS
BA, Bennington College; MFA, Queens College. (1995– ) Artist in Residence.

Neil Gaiman  ARTS, LANG/LIT
Author of fiction, poetry, graphic novels, comics, journalism, biography, screenplays, song lyrics, and drama; and recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. (2014– ) Professor in the Arts.

Kyle Gann  ARTS
BM, Oberlin Conservatory of Music; MM, DM, Northwestern University. (1997– ) Taylor Hawver and Frances Bortle Hawver Professor of Music. 

Masha Gessen LANG/LIT
Russian-American journalist, author, LGBT rights activist, staff writer for the New Yorker. Studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Cooper Union. (2020– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Arthur Gibbons  ARTS
BA, Ohio Wesleyan University; BFA, MFA, University of Pennsylvania. Director, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1990–2020). (1988– ) Professor of Sculpture.

Christopher H. Gibbs  ARTS
BA, Haverford College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2002– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music; Artistic Codirector, Bard Music Festival.

Helena Sedlácková Gibbs  
BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD, New York University; certificate in education, University of Brasilia. (2003– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities.

Jeffrey Gibson  ARTS
BFA, Art Institute of Chicago; MA, Royal College of Art. (2012– ) Artist in Residence.

Simon Gilhooley  SST
MA, University of Edinburgh; MA, University of London, Institute for the Study of the Americas; MA, PhD, Cornell University. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Beka Goedde  ARTS
BA, Columbia University; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. (2015– ) Artist in Residence.

Jacqueline Goss  ARTS
BA, Brown University; MFA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (2001– ) Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Stephen Graham  LANG/LIT
BA, Harvard College; MA, MFA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2006– ) Bard Center Fellow.

Brent Green  ARTS
Artist and filmmaker. (2017– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Donna Ford Grover  LANG/LIT
BA, Bard College; PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (1999– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies.

Marka Gustavsson  ARTS
BM, Indiana University; MM, Mannes College of Music; DMA, City University of New York. (2001– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Garry L. Hagberg  SST
BA, MA, PhD, University of Oregon. (1990– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy.

Hal Haggard  SCI
BA, Reed College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
(2014– ) Associate Professor of Physics. 

Benjamin Hale  LANG/LIT
BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop. 2012 Bard Fiction Prize winner. (2012– ) Writer in Residence.

Jeremiah Hall
BA, Bard College; MA, The New School; MS, SUNY Buffalo. (2013– ) Visiting Instructor in Practice; Digital Technologies Development Librarian.

Mark D. Halsey  SCI
BA, Hobart College; AM, PhD, Dartmouth College. (1989– ) Vice President for Institutional Planning and Research; Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Ed Halter  ARTS
BA, Yale University; MA, New York University. (2005– ). Critic in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts.

Lynn Hawley  ARTS
BA, Middlebury College; MFA, New York University; certificate of training, Moscow Art Theatre. (2000– ) Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance.

Maggie Hazen  ARTS
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design. (2017– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz  LANG/LIT
BA, University of California, San Diego; MA, PhD, Brown University. (2004– ) Associate Professor of Literature.

Sarah Hennies  ARTS
BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MA, University of California, San Diego. (2019– )  Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.
 
Samantha Hill
BA, Albion College; PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst. (2015– ) Assistant Director, Hannah Arendt Center; Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Frederic C. Hof  SST
Ambassador and special adviser for transition in Syria under President Obama. Graduate, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Naval Postgraduate School; additional studies in Arabic at Foreign Service Institute, Tunisia. (2018– ) Diplomat in Residence.

Michelle Hoffman 
BSc, Concordia University; MA, PhD, University of Toronto; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, American University of Central Asia. (2015– ) Assistant Director, Institute for Writing and Thinking; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities.

Kwame Holmes  SST
BA, Florida A&M University; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2020– ) Scholar in Residence, Human Rights.

Elizabeth M. Holt  LANG/LIT
BA, Harvard University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University.
(2008– ) Associate Professor of Arabic.

Sky Hopinka  ARTS
BA, Portland State University; MFA, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (2020– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Justin C. Hulbert  SCI
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of Oregon; PhD, University of Cambridge. (2015– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Thomas Hutcheon  SCI
BA, Bates College; MS, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. (2014– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology.

Michael Ives  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Rochester. (2003– ) Poet in Residence.

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed  SST
BA, Yale University; MA, Yale Divinity School; PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School. (2019–) Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies.

Swapan Jain  SCI
BS, Kennesaw State University; PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. (2009– ) Associate Professor of Chemistry.

Brooke Jude  SCI
BA, Colby College; PhD, Dartmouth College. (2009– ) Associate Professor of Biology. 

Craig Jude  SCI
BA, Colby College; PhD, Dartmouth College. (2009– ) Assistant Registrar; Laboratory Coordinator, Biology Program.

Jeffrey Jurgens  SST
BA, Colorado College; MA, PhD, University of Michigan. (2017– ) Term Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Patricia Karetzky  ARTS
BA, New York University; MA, Hunter College; PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. (1988– ) Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History. 

Lisa Katzman  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MA, University of Chicago. Documentary filmmaker. (2018– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Erica Kaufman
BA, Douglass College, Rutgers University; MFA, The New School; PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2017– ) Director, Institute for Writing and Thinking; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities.

Thomas Keenan  LANG/LIT
BA, Amherst College; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (1999– ) Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Human Rights Project.

Felicia Keesing  SCI
BS, Stanford University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2000– ) David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

Jim Keller
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, University of Montana, Missoula; PhD, SUNY Stony Brook. (2001– ) Director, The Learning
Commons; Visiting Associate Professor of Academic Writing.

Robert Kelly  LANG/LIT
BA, City College of New York; graduate work, Columbia University; LittD (honorary), SUNY Oneonta. Poet, fiction writer. Founding director, Writing Program, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1961– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. 

Franz R. Kempf  LANG/LIT
MA, German, MA, Russian, University of Utah; PhD, Harvard University. (1985– ) Professor of German.

Arseny Khakhalin  SCI
MS, Moscow State University; PhD, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences; postdoctoral -fellow, Brown University. (2014– ) Assistant Professor of Biology. 

Erica Kiesewetter  ARTS
Violinist. Graduate, The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. (2010– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music; Director of Orchestral Studies; faculty, Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Alex Kitnick  ARTS
BA, Wesleyan University; MA, PhD, Princeton University. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture; Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts. 

Peter Klein  SST
BA, Drew University; MA, PhD, Brown University. (2014– ) Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental and Urban Studies.

Antonios Kontos  sci
Diploma in Physics, National Technical University of Athens; MS, PhD, University of Notre Dame. (2017– ) Assistant Professor of Physics.

Marina Kostalevsky  LANG/LIT
MA, Leningrad State Conservatory; PhD, Yale University. (1996– ) Professor of Russian.

Lu Kou  LANG/LIT
BA, Peking University; MA, PhD, Harvard University. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Chinese.

Stephanie Kufner  LANG/LIT
Teaching Diploma, Certification for English Language and Business Administration, University of Munich; Diplom-Handelslehrer, University of Munich; MA, PhD, SUNY Albany. (1990– ) Visiting Associate Professor of German; Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures.

Laura Kuhn ARTS
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Director and cofounder, John Cage Trust. (2007– ) John Cage Professor of Performance Arts.

Naoko Kumada  SST
Advanced study of Burmese language, Yangon University of Foreign Languages; PhD, University of Cambridge. (2019– ) Research Associate in Social Studies Division.

Laura Kunreuther  SST
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, University of Michigan. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Cecile E. Kuznitz  SST
AB, magna cum laude, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Stanford University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Jewish History.

Christopher N. LaFratta  SCI
BS, University of Massachusetts; PhD, University of Maryland.
(2010– ) Associate Professor of Chemistry. 

Peter Laki  ARTS
Diploma in musicology, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest; PhD, University of Pennsylvania. (2007– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Kristin Lane  SCI
BA, University of Virginia; MS, Yale University; PhD, Harvard University. (2007– ) Associate Professor of Psychology.

Hillary Langberg  SST
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin. (2020– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Religion.

Ann Lauterbach  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Columbia University. Poet. (1997– ) David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

An-My Lê  ARTS
BAS, MS, Stanford University; MFA, Yale University School of Art. (1998– ) Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts.

Gideon Lester  ARTS
BA, University of Oxford; Diploma in dramaturgy, Harvard University. (2012– ) Professor of Theater and Performance; Artistic Director, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Caitlin Leverson  SCI
BA, Wellesley College; PhD, Duke University; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology. (2020– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Marisa Libbon  LANG/LIT
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MPhil, University of Oxford; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Christopher R. Lindner  SST
BA, Hamilton College; MA, University of -Cincinnati; PhD, SUNY Albany. (1988– ) Archaeologist in Residence.

Erica Lindsay  ARTS
BA, New York University. Jazz musician, composer. (2001– ) Artist in Residence.

Peter L’Official  LANG/LIT
BA, Williams College; MA, New York University; PhD, Harvard University. (2015– ) Assistant Professor of Literature. 

Ilka LoMonaco  ARTS
Studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. (2008– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Richard B. Lopez  SCI
BA, Princeton University; PhD, Dartmouth College; Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Psychology. 

Patricia López-Gay  LANG/LIT
PhD, New York University; joint PhD, comparative literature and translation studies, University of Paris 7 and Autonomous University of Barcelona. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Spanish.

Tara Lorenzen  ARTS
BFA, SUNY Purchase. (2016– ) Visiting Instructor in Dance; Gibney Company Partnership Coordinator.

Renée Anne Louprette  ARTS
BM, Graduate Professional Diploma, Hartt School, University of Hartford; Diplôme Supérieur, Centre d’Études Supérieures de Musique et de Danse de Toulouse; MM, conducting, Bard College Conservatory of Music (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Music; Bard College Organist.

Valeria Luiselli  LANG/LIT
BA, UNAM, Mexico; MA, PhD, Columbia University. (2019– ) Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature.

Joseph Luzzi  LANG/LIT
BA, Tufts University; MA, New York University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2002– ) Professor of Comparative Literature.

Medrie MacPhee  ARTS
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. (1997– ) Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence. 

Liudmila Malyshava  SST
BA, Bard College; MA, PhD candidate, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2018– ) Visiting Instructor in Economics.

Tanya Marcuse  ARTS
AA, Bard College at Simon’s Rock; BA, Oberlin College; MFA, Yale University School of Art. (2014– ) Artist in Residence.

Michael E. Martell  SST
BA, University of Oregon; MA, PhD, American University. (2016– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

Dawn Lundy Martin  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Connecticut; MA, San Francisco State University; PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst. (2018– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Wyatt Mason
Studied literature at University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and University of Paris. (2010– ) Writer in Residence; Senior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Robert W. McGrail  SCI
BA, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine; MA, Boston College; PhD, Wesleyan University. (1999– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics; Director, Laboratory for Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, Bard College.

Christopher McIntosh  SST
BA, University of Georgia; MA, Georgetown University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies. 

Dave McKenzie  ARTS
BFA, University of the Arts; also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. (2015– ) Artist in Residence.

Allison McKim  SST
BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD, New York University. (2010– ) Associate Professor of Sociology. 

Emily McLaughlin  SCI  
BS, Ohio Northern University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania. (2008– ) Associate Dean of the College; Associate Professor of Chemistry. 

Nesrin Ersoy McMeekin
BA, MA, Bilkent University, Ankara. (2014– ) Visiting Instructor in the Humanities.

Sean McMeekin  SST
AB, Stanford University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2014– ) Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture. 

Blair McMillen  ARTS
BA, BM, Oberlin College; MM, The Juilliard School; DMA, Manhattan School of Music. (2006– ) Artist in Residence.

Walter Russell Mead  SST
BA, Yale University. (2005–08, 2010– ) James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities. 

Daniel Mendelsohn  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Virginia; MA, PhD, Princeton University. (2006– ) Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities.

Stefan M. Mendez-Diez  SCI
BA, physics, BS, mathematics, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Maryland. (2016– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Dinaw Mengestu  LANG/LIT
BA, Georgetown University; MFA, Columbia University. (2016– ) Professor of Written Arts.

Susan Merriam  ARTS
BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University; MA, Tufts; PhD, Harvard University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Art History.

Oleg Minin  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Victoria; MA, University of Waterloo; PhD, University of Southern California. (2012– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian.

Aniruddha Mitra  SST
MA, Delhi School of Economics; MS, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2012– ) Associate Professor of Economics.

Chiori Miyagawa  ARTS
MFA, Brooklyn College. (1999– ) Playwright in Residence.

Alys Moody  LANG/LIT
BA, MPhil, University of Sydney; DPhil, University of Oxford. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

A. Sayeeda Moreno  ARTS
MFA, New York University. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Bradford Morrow  LANG/LIT
BA, University of Colorado; graduate studies, Danforth Fellow, Yale University. Novelist, poet; founding editor, Conjunctions. (1990– ) Professor of Literature; Bard Center Fellow.

Gregory Duff Morton  SST
BA, Yale University; AM, MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2017– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Gregory B. Moynahan  SST
BA, Wesleyan University; graduate studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; MA, DPhil, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2001– )
Associate Professor of History.

Rufus Müller  ARTS
BA, MA, University of Oxford. Tenor; performs internationally in operas, oratorios, and recitals. (2006– ) Associate Professor of Music.

Michelle Murray  SST
BA, MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2009– ) Associate Professor of Political Studies.

Matthew Mutter  LANG/LIT
BA, University of North Carolina; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2010– ) Associate Professor of Literature. 

David Nelson  SST
BA, Wesleyan University; MHL, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion; PhD, New York University. (2008– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Religion; Rabbi.

Daniel Newsome  SCI
BA, Bard College; PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2019– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Melanie Nicholson  LANG/LIT
BA, Arizona State University; MA, MFA, University of Arizona; PhD, University of Texas at Austin. (1995– ) Professor of Spanish. 

Kerri-Ann Norton  SCI
BA, Bard College; PhD, Rutgers University; postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. (2017– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science. 

Isabelle O’Connell  ARTS
BA, Royal Irish Academy of Music; MM, Manhattan School of Music. Pianist. (2014– ) Visiting Instructor in Music.

Jenny Offill  LANG/LIT
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Stegner Fellow in Fiction, Stanford University. (2020– ) Visiting Writer in Residence.

Keith O'Hara  SCI
BS, Rowan University; MS, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. (2009– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Joseph O’Neill  LANG/LIT
JB, Girton College, University of Cambridge. (2011– ) Distinguished Visiting Professor of Written Arts.

Lothar Osterburg  ARTS
Diploma with excellence, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany. Master printer in etching and photo-gravure. (1999– ) Artist in Residence.

Fiona Otway  ARTS
BA, Hampshire College; MFA, Temple University.Filmmaker. (2016– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou  SST
BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD, New School for Social Research. (1977– ) President, Levy Economics Institute; Executive Vice President Emeritus, Bard College; Jerome Levy Professor of Economics.

Viktoria Paranyuk  ARTS
BA, SUNY Stony Brook; MA, Columbia University; PhD, Yale University. (2020– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

Philip Pardi  
BA, Tufts University; MFA, Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas at Austin. Poet and -translator. (2005– ) Director of College Writing; Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing.

Gilles Peress  ARTS, SST
Studies at Institut d’Etudes Politiques and Université de Vincennes, France. (2008– ) Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Photography.

Joel Perlmann  SST
BA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; PhD, Harvard University. (1994– ) Levy Institute Research Professor; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute.

Gabriel G. Perron  SCI
BSc, MSc, McGill University; PhD, University of Oxford; Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa. (2015– ) Associate Professor of Biology.

Judy Pfaff  ARTS
BFA, Washington University; MFA, Yale University School of Art. ( 1989, 1991, 1994– ) Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts.

Atahualpa Pinto  SCI
BS, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; PhD, Syracuse University. (2018– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

Francine Prose  LANG/LIT
BA, Radcliffe College. (2005– ) Distinguished Writer in Residence.

Karen Raizen  LANG/LIT
BA, classics, BM, viola performance, Rice University; MM, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2017– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian.

Dina Ramadan  LANG/LIT 
BA, American University in Cairo; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2010– ) Assistant Professor of Arabic. 

Raman Ramakrishnan  ARTS
BA, Harvard University; MM, The Juilliard School. (2015– ) Artist in Residence; faculty, Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Kelly Reichardt  ARTS
BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. Filmmaker, screenwriter. (2006– ) S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence.

Chiara Teresa Ricciardone  
BA, Swarthmore College; MA, SUNY Binghamton; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2018– ) Klemens von Klemperer Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow.

Neil Roberts  SST
BA, Brown University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2020–21) Bard College and Open Society University Network Research Professor in Political Studies.

Bruce Robertson  SCI
BS, University of Notre Dame; PhD, University of Montana. (2012– ) Associate Professor of Biology.

Lindsey J L Rockett  ARTS 
BFA, Marymount Manhattan College; MFA, A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training, Harvard University. (2014–17; 2020– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

Miles Rodríguez  SST
BA, Rice University; MA, PhD, Harvard University. (2012– ) Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

Susan Fox Rogers  LANG/LIT
BA, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Columbia University; MFA, University of Arizona. (2001– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Writing; Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking.

Emilio Rojas  ARTS
BFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; MFA, University of British Columbia; MFA, performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (2019– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

James Romm  LANG/LIT
BA, Yale University; PhD, Princeton University. (1990–96, 2000– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics.

Lauren Lynn Rose  SCI
BA, Tufts University; MS, PhD, Cornell University. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Julia Rosenbaum  ARTS 
BA, Yale University; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. (2001–06, 2008– ) Associate Professor of Art History.

Jonathan Rosenberg  ARTS 
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MFA, New York University. (2005– ) Artist in Residence. 

Peter Rosenblum  SST
AB, Columbia College; JD, Northwestern University Law School; LLM, Columbia Law School; DEA (Diplôme d’études approfondies), Univer-sity of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). (2012– ) Professor of International Law and Human Rights.

John Ryle  SST
BA, MA, University of Oxford. Writer, filmmaker, anthropologist. Cofounder, Rift Valley Institute. (2005– ) Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology.

Lisa Sanditz  ARTS
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art; MFA, Yale University. Painter.
(2001– ) Artist in Residence. 

Luc Sante  ARTS, LANG/LIT
Author, translator, essayist, critic. (1999– ) Visiting Professor of Writing and Photography. 

Joseph Santore  ARTS
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art; MFA, Yale University. Painter.
(2001– ) Artist in Residence.

Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco  ARTS
BArch, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; MArch, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam; PhD, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies.

Matt Sargent  ARTS
BA, St. Mary’s College of Maryland; MM, Hartt School, University of Hartford; PhD, SUNY Buffalo. (2014– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Music.

Simeen Sattar  SCI
BA, Rosemont College; PhD, Yale University. (1984– ) Professor of Chemical Physics.

Frank M. Scalzo  SCI
BS, St. Bonaventure University; MA, PhD, SUNY Binghamton. (1999– ) Associate Professor of Psychology.

Ann Seaton  LANG/LIT
BA, Wellesley College; PhD, Harvard University. (2015– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities; Director, Difference and Media Project; Director, Multi-cultural Affairs; Senior Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Shai Secunda  SST
BTL, Ner Israel Rabbinical College; MLA, Johns Hopkins University; MA, PhD, Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University; additional studies at Hebrew University, Harvard University. (2016– ) Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism.

David Shein  SST
BA, SUNY Oswego; MPhil, PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2008– ) Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dean of Studies; Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. 

Nathan Shockey  LANG/LIT
BA, Stanford University; MA, Waseda University; MA, PhD, Columbia University. (2012– ) Associate Professor of Japanese.

Stephen Shore  ARTS
Photographer; exhibits internationally at major venues. (1982– ) Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.

Steven Simon  SCI
BA, Yale University; PhD, New York University. (2016– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Maria Q. Simpson  ARTS
BFA, University of Massachusetts; MFA, University of Washington. (2004– ) Professor of Dance. 

Mona Simpson  LANG/LIT
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, Columbia University. (1988–2001, 2005– ) Writer in Residence.

Whitney Slaten  ARTS
BM, William Paterson University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

Robyn L. Smyth  SST
BS, Cornell University; MS, University of Vermont; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara. (2017– ) Continuing Assistant Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies; faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

Geoffrey Sobelle  ARTS
BA, Stanford University; additional studies, École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq. (2016, 2018– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Patricia Spencer  ARTS
BM, Oberlin Conservatory of Music. (1997– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins  SST
BA, Columbia University; MSc, University of Oxford; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2013– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

I Ketut Suadin  ARTS
Graduate, Konservatori Karawitan, Bali, Indonesia. (2012– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Music.

Richard Suchenski  ARTS
BA, Princeton University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. Film historian. (2009– ) Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts; Director, Center for Moving Image Arts.

Ashwini Sukthankar
JD, Harvard University; Director, Unite Here hospitality union.
(2020– ) Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights Project.

Karen Sullivan  LANG/LIT
AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (1993– ) Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture.

Nilaja Sun  ARTS
BA, Franklin & Marshall College. Obie Award–winning actor, playwright. (2014, 2016, 2020–) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Wakako Suzuki  LANG/LIT
BA, Rikkyo University, Tokyo; MA, Columbia University; MA, Stanford University; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Japanese.

Yuka Suzuki  SST
BA, Cornell University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2003– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology. 

Julianne Swartz  ARTS
BA, University of Arizona; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. (2006– ) Artist in Residence.

Erika Switzer  ARTS
BM, MM, University of British Columbia; MM, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Germany; DM, The Juilliard School.
(2010– ) Artist in Residence.

David Sytkowski  ARTS
BM, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2018– ) Visiting Artist in Residence. 

David Szlasa  ARTS
BFA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; MA, NYU, Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies. (2017– ) Visiting Artist in Residence. 

Kathryn Tabb  SST
BA, University of Chicago; MPhil, University of Cambridge; MA, PhD, University of Pittsburgh. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Pavlina R. Tcherneva  SST
BA, Gettysburg College; MA, PhD, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2006–08, 2012– ) Associate Professor of Economics; Research Asso-ciate, Levy Economics Institute.

Drew Thompson  SST
BA, Williams College; PhD, University of Minnesota. (2013– ) Associate Professor of Africana and Historical Studies. 

Michael Tibbetts  SCI 
BS, Southeastern Massachusetts University; PhD, Wesleyan University. (1992– ) Professor of Biology. 

Olga Touloumi  ARTS
BArch, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; MSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MA, PhD, Harvard University. (2014– ) Assistant Professor of Art History.

Joan Tower  ARTS
BA, Bennington College; MA, DMA, Columbia University. Composer. (1972– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts; faculty, Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Dominique Townsend  SST
BA, Barnard College; MTS, Harvard Divinity School; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2016– ) Assistant Professor of Religion.

Éric Trudel  LANG/LIT
BA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA, McGill University; PhD, Princeton University. (2002– ) Professor of French.

George Tsontakis  ARTS
Studied composition with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and conducting with Jorge Mester. (2003– ) Distinguished Composer in Residence.

Robert Tully  SST
BA, Yale University; DPhil, University of Oxford. (2018– ) Visiting Professor of Philosophy.

David Ungvary  LANG/LIT
AB, Duke University; MSt, University of Oxford; PhD, Harvard University. (2018– ) Assistant Professor of Classics.

Leanne Ussher  SST
BEc, Macquarie University, Sydney; Graduate Diploma (applied finance), Securities Institute of Australia, Sydney; MA, PhD, New School for Social Research. (2019– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics.

David Van Reybrouck
Studied at University of Leuven and University of Cambridge; PhD, University of Leiden. (2020–21) NEH/Hannah Arendt Center Fellow.

Marina van Zuylen  LANG/LIT
AB, MA, PhD, Harvard University. (1997– ) Professor of French and Comparative Literature. 

Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron 
BA, University of Saarland; MA, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; PhD, University of Saarland. (2009– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of First-Year Seminar; Buddhist chaplain.

Olga Voronina  LANG/LIT
BA, MA, Herzen University; PhD, Harvard University. (2010– ) Associate Professor of Russian.

Jean Wagner  ARTS
BA, Wesleyan University; MA, Smith College. (2000– ) Artist in Residence.

Cecelia Watson
BA, St. John’s College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2020– ) Scholar in Residence.

Robert Weston
BA, University of Florida; MA, MPhil, Columbia University. (2005– ) Continuing Associate Professor of Humanities.

Emily White  SCI 
BS, Tufts University; MS, Ohio State University; PhD, SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. (2019– ) Research Associate, Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Director, Open Society University Network Community Science Coalition. 

Thomas Wild  LANG/LIT
MA, Free University of Berlin; PhD, University of Munich. (2012– ) Associate Professor of German; Research Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Daniel Benjamin Williams  LANG/LIT
AB, Harvard College; MPhil, University of Cambridge, Magdalene College; PhD, Harvard University. (2019– ) Assistant Professor of Literature.

Mary Grace Williams  
BA, Rutgers University; MA, Fordham University; MDiv, Yale Divinity School. (2016– ) Dean of Community Life; Chaplain of the College.

Tom Wolf  ARTS
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. (1971– ) Professor of Art History.

Japheth Wood  SCI 
BA, Washington University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2015– ) Director of Quantitative Literacy; Continuing Associate Professor of Mathematics.

L. Randall Wray  SST
BA, University of the Pacific; MA, PhD, Washington University. Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2015– ) Professor of Economics; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute.

Jenny Xie  LANG/LIT
BA, Princeton University; MFA, New York University. (2020– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Written Arts.

Li-Hua Ying  LANG/LIT
BA, Yunnan Normal University, China; MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin. (1998– ) Associate Professor of Chinese.

Shuo Zhang  SCI 
BS, Tsinghua University, Beijing; PhD, Columbia University. (2020– ) Assistant Professor of Physics.

Ruth Zisman  SST
BA, Vassar College; MA, PhD, New York University. (2011– ) Associate Dean for Network Programs; Term Assistant Professor of Social Studies.