Administrative Staff

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Deirdre d’Albertis

Dean d'Albertis is responsible for faculty affairs and the undergraduate curriculum. She oversees faculty recruitment, evaluation, and promotion. As coordinator of the undergraduate academic program, she is attentive to college-wide matters and interdivisional interests. She assists faculty committees in their work on the curriculum and on academic policy, and also assists the divisional chairpersons and the president as they uphold standards of faculty responsibility as established by faculty action. She also works with the associate deans and the dean of studies to develop the academic curriculum and student academic life. She serves as a Professor of Literature.

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Mark Halsey

Mark Halsey has oversight of all institutional research activities and leads the Data Stewardship Council. Working closely with the CIO, he oversees the College’s IT operations. He is the College’s Accreditation Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and coordinates all external reporting for the College.

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Michael Sadowski

Michael also works with search committees to help ensure inclusive hiring practices, provides resources for faculty to expand the breadth and depth of Bard’s curriculum in areas related to inclusion, and helps organize speaker series and other events intended to bring underrepresented voices to campus. In addition to being Associate Dean, he is a faculty member in the Master of Arts in Teaching and Human Rights programs, an author who has written extensively on youth identity development, LGBTQ+ youth issues, and inclusive teaching, and a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. His 2021 book Men I've Never Been was shortlisted for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Books of All Time by Book Authority.

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Nicholas Alton Lewis
 

Nicholas works with both faculty and students on building a climate of inclusion and community. He works alongside Director of Inclusive Pedagogy Michael Sadowski and Director of College Writing Philip Pardi, as well as the CFCD, around faculty development work, professional development and diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Sue Elvin

Faculty members are encouraged to contact Sue before applying for any grant. She offers support throughout the grant life cycle: finding funding prospects, gaining the appropriate institutional approvals to apply, creating and submitting an application, and managing a grant once it has been awarded. Typical examples are a training workshop on a funding program, the creation of information modules and templates, budget creation advice, copy-editing support, the provision of institutional materials, contract analysis and negotiation, and a review of terms and conditions prior to accepting an award.

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Philip Pardi

Areas of work include fostering best practices for writing instruction, bringing innovative pedagogies into the teaching of reading (broadly defined), working with academic programs to develop curricula, and supporting College-wide initiatives such as the Common Courses and the Bard Reading Initiative, as well as core components of the Bard curriculum such as L&T, First-Year Seminar, and Citizen Science. Phil is also a Writer in Residence in the Written Arts program and a Faculty Associate with the Institute for Writing and Thinking. He teaches courses in written arts, literature, and experimental humanities.

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Brooke Jude

Professor Jude is also the Director of the Bard Houses program, where she oversees the House Professors who are faculty in residence, as they build communities aimed at helping students feel welcome and at home the moment they step onto campus. Professor Jude is the current Yauch House Professor in this program. She is an Associate Professor of Biology.