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Bard College Catalogue 2022-23
Bard College Faculty Emeritus
For complete biographies see bard.edu/academics/faculty
Peggy Ahwesh
BFA, Antioch College. (1990–2020) Professor Emeritus of Film and Electronic Arts.
JoAnne Akalaitis
BA, University of Chicago; graduate study, Stanford University. (1998–2012) Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Flint Professor Emeritus of Drama.
Thurman Barker
BA, SUNY Empire State; additional study at Roosevelt University and American Conservatory of Music. Jazz musician. (1993–2022) Professor Emeritus of Music.
Daniel Berthold
BA, MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Yale University. (1984–2022) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy.
Mario J. A. Bick
BA, Columbia College; PhD, Columbia University. (1970–2017) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
Benjamin Boretz
BA, Brooklyn College; MFA, Brandeis University; MFA, PhD, Princeton University. Composer, critic, editor. (1973–98) Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts.
Burton Brody
BA, Columbia College; PhD, University of Michigan. (1970–2012) Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Diana De G. Brown
BA, Smith College; PhD, Columbia University. (1988–2017) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
Alan Cote
Painter. (1970–2003) Professor Emeritus of Studio Arts.
Richard H. Davis
BA, University of Chicago; MA, University of Toronto; PhD, University of Chicago. (1997–2022) Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Religion.
Matthew Deady
BS, MS, University of Illinois; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (1987–2020) Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Carolyn Dewald
BA, Swarthmore College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2003–16) Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies.
Michael Donnelly
AB, Harvard College; PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London. (1999–2015) Professor Emeritus of Sociology.
John Ferguson
ScB, Brown University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (1977–2013) Professor Emeritus of Biology.
Larry Fink
Photographer; solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, others. (1988–2017) Professor Emeritus of Photography.
Richard Gordon
BA, Harvard College; MA, PhD, Graduate Faculty of New School University. (1973–2008) Professor Emeritus of Psychology.
William James Griffith
AB, cum laude, Claremont McKenna College; MA, PhD, Brown University. (1968–2013) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy.
Frederick Hammond
BA, PhD, Yale University. (1989–2012) Irma Brandeis Professor Emeritus of Romance Cultures and Music History.
David Kettler
AB, MA, PhD, Columbia University. (1991–2019) Research Professor Emeritus.
Benjamin La Farge
BA, Harvard College; graduate study, Balliol College, University of Oxford. (1968–2014) Professor Emeritus of English.
Mark Lambert
BA, Bard College; MA, PhD, Yale University. (1967–2009) Asher B. Edelman Professor Emeritus of Literature.
Nancy S. Leonard
AB, Smith College; PhD, Indiana University. (1977–2014) Professor Emeritus of English.
Mark Lytle
BA, Cornell University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (1974–2015) Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor Emeritus of Historical Studies.
Norman Manea
MS, Institute of Construction, Bucharest. Author of novels, short fiction, memoirs, and essays. (1989–2017) Francis Flournoy Professor Emeritus in European Studies and Culture; Distinguished Writer in Residence.
William T. Maple
BA, Miami University; MA, PhD, Kent State University. (1973–2014) Professor Emeritus of Biology.
Aileen Passloff
BA, Bennington College. (1993–2013) L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor Emeritus of Dance.
Joan Retallack
BA, University of Illinois, Urbana; MA, Georgetown University. (2000–14) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor Emeritus of Humanities.
Robert Rockman
BA, Harvard University; MA, University of California, Berkeley. (1956–2002) Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theater.
Gennady L. Shkliarevsky
BA, MA, Kiev State University; MA, PhD, University of Virginia. (1985–2016) Professor Emeritus of History.
Peter D. Skiff
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MS, University of Houston; PhD, Louisiana State University. (1966–2016) Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Alice Stroup
BA, City College of New York; Diploma in the History and Philosophy of Science and DPhil, University of Oxford. (1980–2019) Professor Emeritus of History.
James Sullivan
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design. (1966–95) Professor Emeritus of Studio Arts.
Suzanne Vromen
Licence ès Sciences Sociales and Première Licence ès Sciences Economiques, University of Brussels, Belgium; MSc, urban planning, Columbia University; MA, PhD, sociology, New York University. (1978–2000) Professor Emeritus of Sociology.
Hilton M. Weiss
ScB, Brown University; MS, University of Vermont; PhD, Rutgers University. (1961–2008) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; David and Rosalie Rose Research Professor.