Bard College Awarded $1.49 Million Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times Initiative
The Mellon Foundation grant supports the “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck” project, which asks: What would it look like to truly acknowledge the land beneath us, its history, and to collaborate with its continuing stewards? It affirms Bard’s tangible commitments to the principles and ideals of the College’s 2020 land acknowledgment by recognizing the need to address historical erasure and make space for marginalized epistemologies. Rethinking Place proposes a Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) approach to a revitalized American Studies curriculum. Through courses, annual conferences, reading groups, and workshops, the project will foster collaboration between faculty and students at Bard and across regional peer liberal arts colleges, engaging with the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians whose homelands these schools are in.
On Becoming Lucy Sante: The Bard Professor Writes for Vanity Fair on Coming Out as Transgender at 67
Lucy Sante—writer, critic, and Bard faculty member—pens an intimate personal essay for Vanity Fair tracing her journey as a trans woman, from the carefully repressed feelings of her adolescence to finally coming out last year. “Now I am aware that I live, as we all do, in a cloud of unknowing, where certainties break down and categories become liquid,” she writes. “None of us really knows anything except provisionally. Now, as Lou Reed put it, ‘I’m set free/ to find a new illusion.’” Lucy Sante is visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard College. She has been a member of the faculty since 1999.Why Memoir, and Why Now? Michael Sadowski Talks with Rainbow Country about Toxic Masculinity, Archetypes of Manhood, and His New Book, Men I've Never Been
Associate Dean of the College Michael Sadowski spoke with Rainbow Country, an LGBTQ-focused podcast, about his career, teaching, and new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been. Asked about his turn to memoir, a first in the genre for the author, Sadowski said he felt compelled to tell his own story, inspired by his students and others who have shared their personal journeys.- New Bard College Posse Arts Scholars Welcomed by President Leon Botstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Luis A. Miranda Jr., and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona at Virtual Awards Ceremony
- “It’s never, never too late.” Joshua P.H. Livingston Profiled by Bloom Season on His Career Path, Commitment to Community, and Pandemic Pivot
- Artist in Residence Jeffrey Gibson on His Craft, Working with Indigenous Artisans, and Intertribal Aesthetics
- Jomaira Salas Pujols, Alumna of the Posse Foundation, to Join Bard Faculty in Fall 2022
- Alex Haley Taught America About Race—and a Young Man How to Write | Michael Patrick Hearn ’72 on the Author’s Impact
- General Manager of the Fisher Center Catherine Teixeira Chosen for Sphinx LEAD Professional Development Program
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Reflecting on the Moment
Reflecting on the Moment is a collaborative initiative spearheaded by the Dean of the College in consultation with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The new series invites alumni/ae, current undergraduates, faculty, and staff to have honest conversations about the current moment we are living in the wake of a global pandemic and systemic police brutality. The aim is to present models of inclusive dialogue, to draw from the rich personal experiences and expertise of our ever-developing and ever-changing community, and to present approaches for community activism and engagement in the name of racial equity and justice.