Catalogue

Bard College Faculty

For complete biographies see bard.edu/faculty

Leon Botstein  President of the College; Chancellor, Open Society University Network
BA, University of Chicago; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Music director, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ) and The Orchestra Now (TŌN); conductor laureate and principal guest conductor, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broadcasting Authority. Guest conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, Russian National Orchestra, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas, among others. Recorded works by Shoeck, Honegger, Szymanowski, Hartmann, Dukas, Bruch, Foulds, Bruckner, Chausson, Richard Strauss, Mendelssohn, Popov, Shostakovich, Liszt, others. Founder and coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990– ); artistic director, Grafenegg Campus and Academy, Austria. Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture and Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und österreichischen Kultur, 1848–1938; coeditor, Jews and the City of Vienna, 1870–1938; editor, The Compleat Brahms (Norton, 1999), Musical Quarterly (1992– ), and numerous essays and chapters in books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Presented the 2010–11 Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The History of Listening.” Trustee emeritus, Central European University (board chair, 2007–22; board member, 1991–22) and Foundation for Jewish Culture. Member, American Philosophical Society. Honors and awards: Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, National Arts Club Gold Medal, Leonard Bernstein Award, Bruckner Society Medal of Honor, Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago, and Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. (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– ) Professor of Political Studies. 

Deirdre d’Albertis  Vice President and 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; Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Literature, 1830–1900; Afterlives of the Brontës: Biography, Fiction, and Literary Criticism; Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal, and The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Articles and reviews in Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Victorian Studies; Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900; and Journal of the History of Sexuality. President, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. (1991– ) Professor of English.

Christian Ayne Crouch  Dean of Graduate Studies
BA, Princeton University; MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University. Author, Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Cornell, 2014); winner, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society (2015). Selected articles and chapters in Early American Studies (2016), The William & Mary Quarterly (2018), The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization (DeGruyter, 2019), Panorama (2021), Beyond the Horizon (Chicago, 2022). Fellowships and grants from the American Philosophical Society, John Carter Brown Library, Ford Foundation, Harvard University Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Massachusetts Historical Society, Mellon Foundation, Newberry Library, William L. Clements Library, and Yale Center for British Art. Member, Omohundro Institute Council (2018–22). Curatorial adviser, Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks (Brooklyn Museum, 2020–21). Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence (2019). Teaching and research specialization in early modern Atlantic history, Native American and Indigenous studies, Atlantic slavery, empire, and visual and material culture. (2006– ) Associate Professor of History and American and Indigenous Studies.

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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

Dror Abend-David  LANG/LIT
BA, Tel Aviv University; MA, certificate of translation, SUNY Binghamton; PhD, New York University; certificate in TEFL, University of Toronto. (2023– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew.

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– ) Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History.

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

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

Autumn Ahn  ARTS
BFA, Boston University; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Studio Arts.

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

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.

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

Tyler Curtis Archer LANG/LIT
BA, certificate in Ancient Greek, MA, Rutgers University; MA, PhD, Princeton University. (2023– ) Postdoctoral Fellow in Classical Studies.

Myra Young Armstead  SST
BA, Cornell University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (1985– ) Senior Adviser to the President; Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies.

Nathanael Aschenbrenner  SST
BS, United States Naval Academy; MA, Georgetown University and King’s College, London; PhD, Harvard University; postdoctoral research fellow, Princeton University. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of History.

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

Jordan Ayala SST 
BBA, MA, Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, PhD, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Analytics and Environmental Studies.

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

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.

Janaki Bakhle 
BA, University of Bombay; MA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Columbia University. (2023– ) OSUN Professor. 

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

Mara Baldwin ARTS
BFA, Wesleyan University; MFA, California College of the Arts. (2022– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Studio Arts.

Karen Barkey  SST
BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, University of Washington; PhD, University of Chicago. (2021–26) Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion.

Diane Barkstrom   LANG/LIT
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. (2023– ) Visiting Lecturer.

Valerie Barr  SCI
BA, Mount Holyoke College; MS, New York University; PhD, Rutgers University. (2022– ) Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science.

Valérie T. Bart  ARTS
BA, University of California, Los Angeles; MFA, Yale School of Drama. (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance.

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.

Ingrid Becker  SST
BA, Boston University; MSt, University of Oxford; PhD, University of Chicago. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights.

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

Youssef Ait Benasser  SST
BA, Sciences Po Paris; MSc, École Polytechnique and Sciences Po Paris; PhD, University of Oregon. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.

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

Bevin Blaber  SST
BA, Williams College; AM, PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies. 

Lucas Blalock  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, University of California, Los Angeles. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Photography.

Nayland Blake  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, California Institute of the Arts. (2021–) Professor of Studio Arts.

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

Joshua Boettiger
BA, Bard College; MA, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; MFA, Pacific University. (2021– ) Jewish Chaplain.

Vanessa Grajwer Boettiger
BA, Yale University; CPE, University of Pennsylvania Hospital; ordained, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. (2021– ) Visiting Instructor in Humanities.

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

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

Maxim H. Botstein
BA, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University. (2023– ) Fritz Stern Postdoctoral Fellow, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. 

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

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

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

J. Andrew Bush  SST
BA, James Madison University; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Krista Caballero 
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. (2018– ) Artist in Residence; Codirector, Center for Experimental Humanities.

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.

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.

Luis Chávez 
BA, MA, California State University, East Bay; PhD, University of California, Davis. (2022–24) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and the Arts.

Anne Hunnell Chen ARTS
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture.

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.

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.

Jasmine Clarke  ARTS
BA, Bard College. (2021– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Jace Clayton ARTS
BA, Harvard University. (2023– ) Director of Graduate Studies, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.

Betsy Clifton  ARTS
BFA, School of Visual Arts; postbaccalaureate program in architecture, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; MArch, University of California, Berkeley. (2022– ) Visiting Lecturer in Architecture.

Michael Robinson Cohen  ARTS
BA, Brown University; MArch, Yale School of Architecture; MPhil, architecture and urban studies, University of Cambridge. (2022– ) Visiting Lecturer in Architecture.

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 Ayne Crouch  SST
Dean of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of History. See full bio above.

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

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

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 Visual Culture 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
Vice President and Dean of the College; Professor of English. See full bio above.

Ziad Dallal  LANG/LIT
BA, American University of Beirut; PhD, New York University. (2018– ) Associate Professor of Arabic.

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

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– ) Associate Professor of Literature. 

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

Daniella Dooling  ARTS
BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Yale University School of Art. (2003– ) Professor of Studio Arts.

Charles Doran  SCI
AB, AM, PhD, Harvard University. (2022– ) Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Physics.

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

Nicholas Dunn
BA, The King’s College; MA, Simon Frasier University; PhD, McGill University. (2022– ) Klemens von Klempeer Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow. 

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

Ibrahim Elhoudaiby SST
BA, MA, American University in Cairo; MA, High Institute of Islamic Studies. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Historical Studies.

Tania El Khoury  ARTS
BA, Institute of Fine Arts, Lebanese University; MA, Goldsmiths, University of London; PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London. (2019; 2020– ). Director, Center for Human Rights and the Arts; 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– ) Charles Flint Kellogg Professor in the Division of Social 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.

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.

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– ) Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

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; 2023– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Studio Arts.

Lucy Fitz Gibbon  ARTS
See Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty.

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.

Yebel Gallegos  ARTS
BFA, University of Texas at Austin and Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán, directed by the Delfos Dance Company. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance.

Claire Galloway  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MAT, Boston University; MM, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. (2023– ) Artist in Residence.

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

Antonio Gansley-Ortiz
BA, Bard College; MDiv, Yale Divinity School. (2023– ) Visiting Instructor in the Humanities. 

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 Visiting Writer.

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.

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– ) Associate Professor of Political Studies.

Joshua Glick  ARTS
BA, Cornell University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts.

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.

Valentina Grasso  SST
BA, University of Catania; MA, University of Naples; PhD, University of Cambridge. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of History.

Dedrick Gray   ARTS
BA, MFA, Florida State University; additional studies, Jacobs Pillow School of Dance. (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

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

Matthew Greenberg  SCI
BA, Bard College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

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.

Alma Guillermoprieto  LANG/LIT
Prize-winning journalist and author; former professional dancer with the National Ballet Company of Mexico. (2023– ) Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Division of Languages and Literature.

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.

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.

Seth Halvorson  SST
BA, Macalester College; MA, Stanford University; PhD, Columbia University. (2022– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy; Faculty, Bard High School Early College Newark.

Fahmidul Haq  ARTS
MA, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; PhD, University Science Malaysia. (2021, 2023– ) Visiting Professor in the Arts.

Taylor Hart  SCI
BA, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College; PhD, Rockefeller University. (2023– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology. 

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

Lloyd Hazvineyi  SST
BA, MA, University of Zimbabwe; PhD, University of the Witwatersrand. (2023– ) Visiting Lecturer in History.

Claire-Marie Hefner  SST
BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison; PhD, Emory University. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions. 

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

Yarran Hominh SST
BA, LLB, LLM, University of Sydney; PhD, Columbia University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Hua Hsu  LANG/LIT
BA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, Harvard University. (2022– ) Professor of Literature. 

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

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

Mie Inouye  SST
BA, Tufts University; MA, University of Toronto; PhD, Yale University. (2021– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

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

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

Celina Jiang  LANG/LIT
BA, Tsinghua University; MA, Columbia University. (2023– ) Visiting Instructor in Chinese.

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

Craig Jude  SCI
BA, Colby College; PhD, Dartmouth College. (2009– ) Associate Registrar.

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

Sucharita Kanjilal  SST
BA, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai; MA, SOAS University of London; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. (2023– ) Assistant 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. 

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; Writer in Residence.

Navneet Kaur  SCI
BSc, MSc, PhD, Guru Nanak Dev University (2015–16; 2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry. 

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.

Pinar Kemerli  SST
BA, Bogaziçi University; MA, Goldsmiths College, University of London; MA, PhD, Cornell University (2013–15; 2021–26) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

Laleh Khorramian  ARTS
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Columbia University; also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. (2022– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

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.

Elena Kim  SCI
BA, American University of Central Asia; MA, Central European University; PhD, University of Bonn. (2021– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology.

Suzanne Kite
BFA, California Institute of the Arts; MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; PhD, Concordia University. (2023– ) Distinguished Artist in Residence; Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies. 

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– ) Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental and Urban Studies.

Marie Luise Knott  
Studied Romance literature and political theory at the Universities of Cologne and Konstanz. (2023– ) NEH/Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow.

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.

Margaux L. Kristjansson
BA, Carleton University, Ottawa; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2022–24) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and Geography. 

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.

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– ) Patricia Ross Weis ’52 Chair in Jewish History and Culture.

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

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.

Theresa Law  SCI
BA, Vassar College; MS, PhD candidate, Tufts University. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

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.

Soonyoung Lee  LANG/LIT
BA, Korea University; MA, sociology, MA, literature, Seoul National University; PhD, University of California, Riverside. (2023– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Language, and Culture. 

Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee  ARTS
BA, Wesleyan University; MArch, Rice University. (2022– ) Architecture Fellow.

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

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

Huiwen Li  LANG/LIT
BA, MEd, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China; MA, University of Pittsburgh; EdD, Duquesne University; PhD candidate, Cleveland State University. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese. 

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

Lindsey Liberatore  ARTS
BFA, Marymount Manhattan College; MFA, A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training, Harvard University. (2021–22) Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

Beate Liepert  SCI
Diploma, Institute of Meteorology and Institute of Bioclimatology and Air Pollution Research, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich; Doctor rer. nat., Institute of Meteorology, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University; postdoctoral research scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; certificate program in fine arts, Parsons School of Design. (2022– ) Visiting Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies and Physics.

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.

Gabriella Lindsay  LANG/LIT
BA, McGill University; Master II, Université Montpellier III; PhD, New York University. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of French. 

Joshua Livingston
BS, University of Missouri–Columbia; MS, Boston University; PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2019– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies. 

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

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– ) Associate Professor of Spanish.

Tara Lorenzen  ARTS
BFA, SUNY Purchase. (2016– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Dance.

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– ) Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature.

Jana Mader
MA, PhD candidate, University of Munich. (2021– ) Director of Academic Programs, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

Nabanjan Maitra   SST
BA, University of Virginia; MEd, George Washington University; AM, PhD, University of Chicago. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions.

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– ) Associate Professor of Photography.

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

Missy Mazzoli  ARTS
BA, Boston University College of Fine Arts; MM, Yale School of Music; additional studies, Royal Conservatory of the Hague. (2022– ) Composer in Residence. 

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.

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

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– ) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities.

Kobena Mercer  ARTS
BA, Saint Martin’s School of Art; PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London. (2021–26) Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities, Bard College and CCS Bard.

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

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.

Kyle Mohr  SST
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz; MA, PhD candidate, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2023– ) Visiting Instructor in Economics.

Jessie Montgomery  ARTS
BM, The Juilliard School; MM, New York University; PhD candidate, Princeton University. (2022– ) Composer in Residence. 

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

Jubilith Moore  ARTS
BA, Bard College. Additional training in Japanese dance, chant, performance, and drum. (2021–) Visiting Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance.

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

Rebecca Morgan  ARTS
BA, Bloomsburg University; MFA, Pratt Institute of Fine Arts. (2022– ) Artist in Residence, Studio 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 B. Moynahan  SST
BA, Wesleyan University; graduate studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; MA, DPhil, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. (2001– )
Associate Professor of History.

Daaimah Mubashshir  ARTS
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. (2021– ) Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

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. 

Joshua D. Nelson SCI
BA, Middlebury College; PhD, clinical psychology, Fordham University; Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, New York University. (2023– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology.

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

Phuong Ngo  LANG/LIT
BA, Wellesley College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Japanese.

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

Franz Nicolay  ARTS
BM, New York University; also studied at the Berklee School of Music’s Summer Performance Program. (2015; 2021– ) Visiting Instructor in Music and the Humanities.

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

Beto O’Byrne  ARTS
BA, Northwestern State University, Louisiana; MFA, University of Southern California. (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance.

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. (2016– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts.

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.

Philip Pardi  
BA, Tufts University; MFA, Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas at Austin. Poet and translator. (2005– ) Director of College Writing; Writer in Residence.

Bhavesh Patel  ARTS
BA, Southern Illinois University; certificate, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; MFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. (2021– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

Chiara Pavone  LANG/LIT
BA, PhD, University of Bologna; MA, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; also studied at Waseda University. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of Japanese.

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.

Eric Person  ARTS
BM, SUNY Empire State College; additional studies, St. Louis Conservatory of Music and Herb Alpert School of Music at University of California, Los Angeles. Jazz saxophonist. (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

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

Lucas Guimarães Pinheiro  SST 
BA, University of British Columbia; MPhil, University of Cambridge; MA, PhD, University of Chicago. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Political Studies.

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

Walid Raad  ARTS
BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology; MA, PhD, University of Rochester. (2023–24) Distinguished Visiting Professor of Photography.

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

Dina Ramadan  LANG/LIT 
BA, American University in Cairo; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. (2010– ) Continuing Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies. 

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

Bryson Rand  ARTS
BFA, University of Colorado at Boulder; MAT, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Yale School of Art; also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography.

Jussara dos Santos Raxlen  SST
BA, SUNY Empire State College; MA, MPhil, PhD, New School for Social Research. (2022– ) Visiting Professor of Sociology. 

Melissa Reardon  ARTS
Artist in Residence, Music. See Conservatory listing.

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

Marcus Roberts  ARTS
BA, Florida State University. Acclaimed jazz pianist, composer. (2020– ) Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music.

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

Miles Rodríguez  SST
BA, Rice University; MA, PhD, Harvard University. (2012– ) Associate 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.

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 and Visual Culture.

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.

Michael Sadowski
BS, Northwestern University; EdM, EdD, Harvard University. Associate Dean of the College; Director, Inclusive Pedagogy.

Jomaira Salas Pujols  SST
AB, Bryn Mawr College; PhD, Rutgers University. (2021– ) Assistant Professor of Sociology. 

Angelica Sanchez  ARTS
MM, William Paterson University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

Lisa Sanditz  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– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

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

Jana Schmidt  LANG/LIT
MA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, SUNY Buffalo. (2023– ) Assistant Professor of German.

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

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.

Tschabalala Self  ARTS
BA, Bard College; MFA, Yale School of Art. (2021 – ) Visiting Artist in Residence.

David Shein  SST
BA, SUNY Oswego; MPhil, PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. (2008– ) Associate Vice President for OSUN-Bard Network Program and Academic Affairs; Dean of Studies; William Lensing Senior Lecturer in the Humanities.

Heeryoon Shin  ARTS
BA, MA, Seoul National University; PhD, Yale University. (2021– ) Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture.

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.

Masha Shpolberg  ARTS
BA, Princeton University; MA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3; Diplôme, Ecole Normale Supérieure; PhD, Yale University. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic 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– ) Associate Professor of Music.

Rose N. Sloan  SCI
BS, Yale University; PhD candidate, Columbia University. (2022– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

Maria Sonevytsky  ARTS
BA, Barnard College; MA, PhD, Columbia University. (2014–17; 2021– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music.

Clara Sousa-Silva  SCI
Integrated MPhys, University of Edinburgh; PhD, University College London. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Physics.

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– ) Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Laura Steele  ARTS
BA, Bard College; also studied at Northwestern University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Instituto Allende. (2004– ) Artist in Residence.

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.

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

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– ) Assistant Professor of Music.

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.

Thena Jean-hee Tak  ARTS
BArch, Cornell University; MArch, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. (2022– ) Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies. 

Francesca Tanksley  ARTS
BA, SUNY Excelsior; MA, Queens College. (2023– ) Visiting Artis in Residence, Music. 

Ashley Tata  ARTS
BA, Marymount Manhattan College; MFA Columbia University; also studied at American Musical and Dramatic Academy. (2021– ) Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance.

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

Rob Todd  SCI 
BS, Iowa State University; MS, University of Iowa; PhD, Creighton University. Faculty, Citizen Science. (2023– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology.

Olga Touloumi  ARTS
BArch, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; MSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MA, PhD, Harvard University. (2014– ) Associate Professor of Architectural 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– ) Associate Professor of Religion.

Éric Trudel  LANG/LIT
BA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA, McGill University; PhD, Princeton University. (2002– ) William Fraunfelder Professor in the College.

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.

Obianuju Catherine Udeh (DJ Switch) 
BS, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. (2022– ) Research Fellow in the Human Rights Program.

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

Oleksandr (Alexander) Valchyshen  SST
MS, electrical engineering, Vinnitsya Politechnic University, Ukraine; MS, banking, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Ukraine; MS, Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy; PhD candidate, University of Missouri–Kansas City. (2022–) Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics.

Jonathan VanDyke  ARTS
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; additional studies at Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. (2022– ) Artist in Residence, Studio Arts. 

Marina van Zuylen  LANG/LIT
AB, MA, PhD, Harvard University. (1997– ) Mary-Margaret Cashell Kellogg Professor in the Division of Language and Literature.  

Roland Vazquez  ARTS
MM, Manhattan School of Music. (2020– ) Artist in Residence.

Sam Vernon  ARTS
BFA, The Cooper Union; MFA, Yale University. (2021– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.

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.

Rupali Warke  SST
BA, Jamia Millia Islamia, India; PhD, University of Texas at Austin. (2021–2023) Visiting Assistant Professor of History.

Julia Weist  ARTS
BFA, Cooper Union School of Art; MLIS, Pratt Institute. (2023– ) Visiting Artist in Residence, Studio Arts.

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

Thomas Wild  LANG/LIT
MA, Free University of Berlin; PhD, University of Munich. (2012– ) 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.

Thomas Chatterton Williams
BA, Georgetown University; MA, New York University’s Reporting and Criticism Program. (2019–20; 23–) Hannah Arendt Center Senior Fellow; Visiting Professor of Humanities.

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

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

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

Shuangting Xiong  LANG/LIT
BA, Renmin University, China; MA, PhD, University of Oregon. (2022– ) Assistant 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– )  Senior Lecturer in Philosophy; Associate Dean of Studies; Faculty Adviser, Bard Debate Union; Director, OSUN Global Debate.