2022–23 Faculty
Program Directors: Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Alex Kitnick and Alys MoodySpring 2024 Faculty
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Paul Cadden-ZimanskyCo-Director of First-Year Seminar, Associate Professor of Physics
Paul Cadden-Zimansky
Co-Director of First-Year Seminar, Associate Professor of Physics
At age 18, Paul Cadden-Zimansky's first classroom jobs were working at a day care on the lower east side of Manhattan and teaching music theory at the National Guitar Summer Workshop. Since then he's earned a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Physics from Northwestern University; taught at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University; and held research appointments at Argonne National Laboratory and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of an international collaboration of scientific societies planning celebrations to mark a century of quantum mechanics in 2025. In his labs at Bard, students learn to create and manipulate the thinnest material in the world (graphene). On weekends he still Zooms with a few of his college classmates to read and discuss philosophy. -
Alys MoodyCo-Director of First-Year Seminar, Associate Professor of Literature
Alys Moody
Co-Director of First-Year Seminar, Associate Professor of Literature
Alys Moody is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College. She was born and raised on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, in the hills outside a town best known for its large concrete banana. She lived and taught in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and France, before coming to Bard in 2019. Alys’s research looks at twentieth-century literature as an international undertaking, and particularly (for better or worse) at the way literature has engaged with histories of hunger and starvation in the twentieth century. In addition to FYSEM, she teaches courses on world literature, global modernism, decolonisation, and hunger. In her teaching and her research, she sees literature as part of a larger history of ideas and culture, and she is excited about FYSEM’s ability to help us think creatively about ideas and their history. And as a new faculty member, she is looking forward to getting to know Bard with and through its incoming first-year cohort.
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Alex KitnickCo-Director of First-Year Seminar, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Alex Kitnick
Co-Director of First-Year Seminar, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Alex Kitnick is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard. He graduated from Wesleyan University where he majored in something called the College of Letters (which is kind of like a very long FYSEM). He later went on to earn his Ph.D from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. His scholarly focus is on modern and contemporary art, primarily in the US and England. A particular interest of his is artist writings and art criticism. Alex is an active critic himself, and his writing has appeared in publications including Artforum and October. He has also contributed to many museum exhibition catalogs. His first book is currently under contract with University of Chicago Press.
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Dror Abend-DavidVisiting Associate Professor of Hebrew
Dror Abend-David
Visiting Associate Professor of Hebrew
Dror Abend-David graduated with a PhD in comparative literature from New York University and has taught in a number of countries: Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, Lithuania, and the United States. He has published one monograph, “Scorned My Nation”: A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish (Peter Lang, 2003), and two scholarly collections: Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014; soft cover, 2016) and Representing Translation: Languages,Translation, and Translators in Contemporary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; soft cover, 2020). He has also published articles on translation in relation to media, drama, literature, and Jewish culture.
BA, Tel Aviv University; MA, certificate of translation, SUNY Binghamton; PhD, New York University; certificate in TEFL, University of Toronto; teaching certificate, State of Florida. At Bard since 2023.
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Alex BensonAssistant Professor of Literature
Alex Benson
Assistant Professor of Literature
Alex Benson is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College. He grew up in Minneapolis (and a couple other places) and then attended UC Berkeley -- first for a BA in Rhetoric, later for a PhD in English. He’s the author of Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription (2023), a book about the problem of how to write sound, and about how this problem intersects with ideas of ability, coloniality, and race. More generally, his work begins with the study of poetry and fiction and from there moves out in a number of directions -- philosophies of language, histories of popular media (music and animation, especially), debates about environmental ethics, and more. In other words, he's always interested in the kind of conversation that stretches its way across multiple fields of knowledge. Which is also why he teaches FYSEM.
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Bevin BlaberVisiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Bevin Blaber
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Bevin Blaber is a scholar of philosophy of religions. Her work centers on continental philosophy, ethics, and modern Jewish thought and literature, with particular emphasis on post-Holocaust thought. In her first monograph, an interdisciplinary project combining philosophical, literary and historical analyses, she examines French philosopher and theorist Maurice Blanchot’s earliest work: articles published in right-wing French journals in the years preceding World War II. Her current work explores ways that conceptions of guilt and atonement are figured in instances of state or community-perpetrated atrocities, and the impact of these definitions on attempts, both legal and extra-juridical, to grapple with legacies of these events. -
Joshua BoettigerJewish Chaplain; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities
Joshua Boettiger
Jewish Chaplain; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities
Joshua Boettiger is Bard's Jewish Chaplain and also serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, He is a Bard alum who has an MFA in Poetry (Pacific University, 2018) and a Masters in Hebrew Letters/rabbinic ordination (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 2006). Joshua is a Rabbis Without Borders fellow, and in the larger community continues to teach Meditation and Mussar – Jewish approaches to mindfulness and service. He is excited to be back at Bard and to be part of the FYSEM journey.
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Leon BotsteinPresident of the College; Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities
Leon Botstein
President of the College; Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities
Leon Botstein, conductor, music historian, and leader in education reform, has been president and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities of Bard College since 1975. -
Erin BraselmannDirector of Disability Resources and Accessibility
Erin Braselmann
Director of Disability Resources and Accessibility
Erin Braselmann is the Director of Disability Access Services. An advanced doctoral candidate at Northeastern University, Erin is focusing her research on disability studies and disability in higher education contexts. In addition to First-Year Seminar, Erin teaches in the Disability and Accessibility Studies Initiative. With an academic background in literature (BA/MA), she has previously taught composition, rhetoric, and literature courses at other institutions. Erin has worked in accessibility, student support, and lecturer positions in higher education for 15 years. -
Johnny BrennanAsst. Director of the Office of Institutional Support
Johnny Brennan
Asst. Director of the Office of Institutional Support
Johnny Brennan ('10) holds a BA in philosophy and music from Bard, an MA in philosophy from the New School for Social Research, and a PhD in philosophy from Fordham University. His research focuses on the ethics and epistemology of trust—what trust is, its social importance, and what significance it has for issues of moral status, moral injury, knowledge, and expertise. His work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy & Technology, and Social Epistemology.
Before returning to Bard, Johnny was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Fordham, where he taught Intro to Philosophy and Ethics as part of the core curriculum required of all undergraduate students. Similar to FYSEM, this core curriculum investigates fundamental questions about what it means to be human. He also has experience in faculty development, having managed Fordham's Preparing Future Faculty program—an advanced pedagogy certificate for PhD students.
In addition to teaching, Johnny is the Assistant Director of the Office of Institutional Support at Bard, where he aids faculty and staff in their grant-seeking efforts.
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Andrew BushAssistant Professor of Anthropology
Andrew Bush
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Andrew Bush is an anthropologist who studies ethics in various forms: in language, law, poetry, gender and sexuality, and religion. His research has been centered around the study of Islamic traditions in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2004. At Bard he teaches in linguistics and gender and sexuality, and he previously taught on topics of Islamic studies, legal studies, and gender at New York University Abu Dhabi, where he also taught seminars focused on writing. He was formerly a researcher at Cracow University of Economics and at Harvard Law School. -
Rachel CavellLanguage and Thinking Program
Rachel Cavell
Language and Thinking Program
Rachel Cavell teaches in Bard’s Language and Thinking Program, and is a Faculty Associate with Bard’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. She teaches Essay and Revision at Bard, and writing and civics at the Bard Prison Initiative. She has worked with faculty development at Bard-Smolny College (St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia), and has taught in the Bard Masters in Teaching Program. Rachel is also a writer, with recent publications in the Adelaide Literary Journal; an attorney, and a practitioner of Restorative Justice. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Harvard University. She is very excited to be discussing, thinking and writing about the great texts in First Year Seminar. -
Sean ColonnaFelicitas Thorne Postdoctoral Fellow in Music
Sean Colonna
Felicitas Thorne Postdoctoral Fellow in Music
In addition to editorial work for Musical Quarterly and assisting with the Bard Music Festival, Sean Colonna is teaching First Year Seminar as Felicitas Thorne Postdoctoral Fellow in Music. A Bard graduate from the class of 2012, Sean went on to work as a Teach for America Corps Member and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant before receiving his PhD in historical musicology from Columbia University in 2023. His research centers on the relationship between musical aesthetics, mind-altering substances, and theories of consciousness and selfhood. He is currently working on an article that analyzes the ways in which musical experience and intoxication were theorized as tools for re-enchantment during the early Romantic era, enabling individuals to experience themselves as inhabiting a magical world of spirits in which nature is conscious and communicative. Sean enjoys a daily meditation practice, and one of his favorite reads so far this year is Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh. -
Nesrin Ersoy McMeekinVisiting Instructor in the Humanities
Nesrin Ersoy McMeekin
Visiting Instructor in the Humanities
Nesrin Ersoy McMeekin is a Visiting Instructor in the Humanities at Bard College, teaching the First-Year Seminar since Fall 2014; and at Bard Early College-Hudson Valley since Fall 2017.
Born in Bulgaria, and emigrated to Turkey as a child, Nesrin specializes in Early Turkish Republican era-specifically in its relations with the Soviet Union, and Turkish Emigration from Bulgaria during the 20th century. Her first book Turkey’s Relations with the Bolsheviks (1919-1922) was published by VDM Publishing House Ltd., in 2009.
Prior to Bard, Nesrin taught Turkish Culture and History at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2012 to 2014; and History of the Republic of Turkey at Bilkent University in Ankara from 2007 to 2012. She enjoys teaching FYSEM and having lively conversations on our texts.
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Molly FreitasAssociate Dean of Studies, Visiting Asst. Professor in the Humanities
Molly Freitas
Associate Dean of Studies, Visiting Asst. Professor in the Humanities
Molly J. Freitas is Associate Dean of Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Bard. As an educator, Molly’s greatest passion is helping students to develop the skills and confidence necessary to achieve their academic, personal, and professional goals. She holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University and an M.A. from Georgetown University, both in English. Prior to coming to Bard, Molly was an Assistant Professor of English and led the prestigious scholarship program at West Point, the United States Military Academy. She has also taught literature, critical thinking, and professional development courses at Tufts University, Emerson College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a book editor at Oxford University Press. A feminist literary critic by training, Molly published an academic book, From Subjection to Survival: The Artistry of American Women Writers (Routledge 2023), on aesthetics and American women writers; her scholarly articles have also appeared in American Literary Realism, Soundings, and Studies in the Novel. She lives in Beacon, NY with her husband and two young daughters, who are the light of her life.
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Seth HalvorsonVisiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
Seth Halvorson
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
Seth David Halvorson is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. He earned his BA from Macalester College, an MA from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he taught in the Core Curriculum. For the past 11 years he was Associate Professor of Philosophy, History, and Political Studies at Bard High School Early College, Newark- where he was founding faculty and coach of the debate team. Professor Halvorson has taught Language and Thinking at Bard for many years and his interests include Political, Ethical, and Social Philosophy, Policy Analysis, Legal Studies, and Philosophy of Technology. He has presented at national and international conferences on diverse topics. Prior to his graduate education, he spent 3 years at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. He is undertaking a book-length study of the civic, moral, and educational dimensions of speed in the spheres of social life. In addition to FYSEM, Halvorson teaches classes in the intersection of Politics, Ethics, Law, Education, and the History of Ideas. Originally from Minnesota, Seth is a painter and a musician and with his partner, a practicing Psychoanalyst, is laughing with and learning from their two young children. Their youngest child is also a first year student at Bard, at the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School. He is thrilled to teach FYSEM because of his love of open dialogue with students on the big issues and questions that spring from the texts and class discussions. -
Cole HeinowitzProfessor of Literature
Cole Heinowitz
Professor of Literature
Cole Heinowitz is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Literature Program at Bard College. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she moved to the east coast to pursue a PhD in comparative literature at Brown University in 1995. After earning her doctorate, she taught for one year at Dartmouth College before finding her intellectual home at Bard, where she has taught since 2004.Cole’s teaching, writing, and research focus on poetry, poetics, and performance from the Romantic period to the present, with an emphasis on Britain, Latin America, and the U.S. In addition to her work as a poet and scholar, she is also active as a literary translator (recent publications include collections by Alejandra Pizarnik and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro) and as a noise musician. As a former co-director of First-Year Seminar (2013-16), Cole is thrilled to be teaching in this new incarnation of Bard’s common course. -
Kwame HolmesScholar in Residence, Human Rights
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Yarran HominhAssistant Professor of Philosophy
Yarran Hominh
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Yarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard. His research sits at the intersection of moral psychology and social and political philosophy, drawing on, among other traditions, the global pragmatist tradition in John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar. His current book project is entitled The Problem of Unfreedom. It examines the fundamental practical political question: Can those who are unfree free themselves? His other research interests include philosophy of law, ethics, colonialism, early modern European philosophy, Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Confucianism, critical Asian American philosophy, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is Associate Editor of The APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies. Recent published work can be found in the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Comparative Philosophy, The Philosopher, The Pluralist, and Res Publica. You can find out more about his work here: https://yarranhominh.com/.Prior to joining Bard, Yarran was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Lecturer in Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He has also taught philosophy and law at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. In other lives, he has also been a journalist, martial arts teacher, musician, and lawyer.
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Celina JiangVisiting Instructor in Chinese
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Sucharita KanjilalAssistant Professor of Anthropology
Sucharita Kanjilal
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sucharita Kanjilal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her current manuscript, Home Chefs: Indian Housewives Produce for the Global Creator Economy, examines the entanglements of gender, race, caste and religious nationalism in the growth of global digital capitalism, through an ethnographic study of food media producers in India’s growing content “creator economy”. Her research combines approaches from economic anthropology, anthropology of media, digital anthropology, anthropology of food, and theories of affect, while highlighting feminist, postcolonial, and anti-caste epistemologies. Her work has appeared in Gastronomica, the Routledge Companion on Caste and Cinema in India, Feminist Media Studies, Scroll.in, Quartz.com, Hindustan Times, and the Heritage Radio Network and Eat This podcasts. She is the recipient of several grants and awards, including from the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the UCLA International Institute and the Sambhi Foundation at UCLA. Prior to moving to the United States, Sucharita was a journalist in Mumbai, India. -
Stephanie KufnerVisiting Associate Professor of German Studies
Stephanie Kufner
Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies
Stephanie Kufner is Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies at Bard College. Originally, from Germany, she has lived in the US for almost 35 years and came to Bard in 1990. She has taught FYSEM regularly for over 10 years, and is excited to be part of this year’s new FYSEM team and curriculum. Prof. Kufner enjoys teaching intensive language and culture classes on various levels, German literature and theater, and for many years helped students produce bilingual German/English theater plays. In her role as Academic Director of the Bard Language Center, Prof. Kufner hires an international staff of up to 20 students. They help provide the Bard Community with a wide range of carefully researched academic, cultural and popular language resources, study- and self-evaluation tools, as well as course –specific supplements for learners on any level in all languages taught at Bard. Do stop by any time to say hi or if interested apply for a job! -
Nicholas LewisAssociate VP for Academic Initiatives & Associate Dean of the College
Nicholas Lewis
Associate VP for Academic Initiatives & Associate Dean of the College
Nicholas Lewis is Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Associate Dean in the office of the Dean of the College at Bard, where he has newly rejoined the campus community in January 2022. His main areas of interest reside at the intersection of music, African diasporic cultures, religion, and social ethics. Nicholas is also a clarinetist and composer steeped in the sensibilities of improvisational music with a Blues aesthetic. He is the clarinetist and co-founder of the BLAK-New Blues Ensemble, an ensemble co-founded with composer-pianist Anthony Kelley and based at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. As the ensemble’s manifesto reads, the BLAK-New Blues Ensemble was created to “explore an ensemble’s ability to circumnavigate, through improvisation, the codes and tropes of African-American, European, and music of other parts of the world in ways that produce a coherent and fresh musical product.”
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Gabriella LindsayVisiting Assistant Professor of French
Gabriella Lindsay
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Gabriella Lindsay is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Languages and Literature. She specializes in intersections between aesthetics, politics and ethics in 20th and 21st century literature, thought and culture in French. She is currently working on a book on representations of sexual violence and the afterlives of the Algerian War. -
Renée Anne LoupretteAssistant Professor of Music and College Organist
Renée Anne Louprette
Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist
Renée Anne Louprette is Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist at Bard. As director of Bard’s Baroque Ensemble, she leads an annual series of Bach cantatas presented in Bard’s Chapel of the Holy Innocents and at venues throughout the Hudson Valley region. A native of Rensselaer, New York, she has also lived in Hartford, Connecticut; London, England; Toulouse, France; and Brasov, Romania. Before coming to Bard, Renée served as associate director of several sacred music programs in New York City including Trinity Wall Street, St. Ignatius Loyola, and the Unitarian Church of All Souls, and taught for ten years at Rutgers University. She maintains an international solo and collaborative performing career and has issued several recordings of Baroque, 20th-century French, and traditional Irish music. Beyond FYSEM, she offers courses at Bard in music theory, early keyboard practice, improvisation, and a lecture course on women composers.
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Nabanjan MaitraAssistant Professor of Religion
Nabanjan Maitra
Assistant Professor of Religion
Nabanjan Maitra migrated to the U.S. from India in 2000, at the age of fifteen. Since then, he has been trying to figure out who he is. The pursuit of that question has brought him back to the classroom and to teaching. After graduating from college, Nabanjan taught Special Education in Washington D.C. for a few years before realizing that it was too hard. Since entering graduate school, Nabanjan has been interested in the role of teaching in forming subjects (citizens, disciples, initiates). Specifically, he is interested to study and describe the techniques that monastic institutions, in medieval and premodern India, developed to govern their subjects, and what these techniques and practices might tell us about the ways in which monastic power operates. Nabanjan prefers spending the summer months playing cricket in England.
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Franz NicolayVisiting Instructor of Music
Franz Nicolay
Visiting Instructor of Music
Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer. In addition to records under his own name, he was a member of cabaret-punk orchestra World/Inferno Friendship Society, “world’s best bar band” the Hold Steady, Balkan-jazz quartet Guignol, co-founded the composer-performer collective Anti-Social Music, was a touring member of agit-punks Against Me!; and recorded or performed with dozens of other acts. He studied music at New York University and writing at Columbia University (where he was awarded a Felipe P. de Alba Fellowship). He received fellowship residencies in composition at the Rensing Art Center and writing at the Ucross Foundation and the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and he has taught at Columbia University and UC–Berkeley.
His first book, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar (The New Press, 2016), was named a “Season’s Best Travel Book” by The New York Times; and Buzzfeed called his novel forthcoming Someone Should Pay For Your Pain was called a “knockout fiction debut." His writing has appeared several anthologies and in publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Threepenny Review, LitHub, and Longreads. -
Antonio OrtizVisiting Instructor in the Humanities
Antonio Ortiz
Visiting Instructor in the Humanities
Antonio Ortiz is a Visiting Instructor in the Humanities at Bard College, teaching Language and Thinking (L&T) and First Year Seminar (FYSEM). Antonio graduated from Bard College in 2018 with a BA in Economics, specializing in macroeconomic policy and the economic history of Latin America. After graduating from Bard, he attended Yale Divinity School where he earned his Master of Divinity degree in 2023. During his time at Yale, Antonio's research focused on the Hebrew Bible; in particular, how biblical narratives of violence were used to construct communal identity in ancient Israel, and surrounding ancient West Asian cultures. In addition to his teaching role, Antonio is also a Program Associate in the Office of the Dean of the College, working directly with the Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Associate Dean of the College, Nicholas Alton Lewis, on building a climate of inclusion and community at Bard College. Outside of academia, Antonio is a practicing Buddhist, and an avid soccer fan. -
Peter RosenblumProfessor of International Law and Human Rights
Peter Rosenblum
Professor of International Law and Human Rights
Previously taught at Columbia Law School, where he was Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor in Human Rights and faculty codirector of the Human Rights Institute. He has served as project director, associate director, and clinical director of the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program; human rights officer at the United Nations Human Rights Centre (now Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) in Geneva, where he led missions to Rwanda, South Africa, and Zaire; program director with the International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights) in Washington D.C.; consultant to Human Rights Watch/Africa Watch; and staff attorney for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). Publications include law review contributions, book chapters, reviews, newspaper opinion pieces, and numerous articles for Current History. Recent projects include field research on obligations and oversight in mining in South Africa and Peru and on tea plantations in India, and consultancies for projects in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kashmir, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, São Tomé e Príncipe, Vietnam, Rwanda, and Peru. At Bard since 2012. -
Heeryoon ShinAssistant Professor of Art History & Visual Culture
Heeryoon Shin
Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Culture
Heeryoon Shin is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College. She was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, but also spent third and fourth grade in Honolulu, Hawaii, which fostered her interest in travel, movement, and intercultural encounters. She returned to the US to pursue graduate studies in the art and architecture of South Asia, with a particular focus on early modern and colonial India. Her current project explores architectural revival, mobility, and cross-cultural exchanges in early colonial India through the lens of temple architecture in the pilgrimage city of Banaras, a portion of which has been published in Artibus Asiae and Journal 18. She is also developing a new project on the global circulation of blue and white ceramics and their interaction with local production and use in South Asia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. -
Bill WalkerLevy Librarian
Bill Walker
Levy Librarian
Bill Walker is at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College where he directs Library and Research activities. He is currently involved in working closely with the Masters students there, especially in the writing and editing of their theses. Prior to coming to Bard, Bill worked in Professional and Reference Publishing in NYC for over 25 years as a writer, editor, and Publisher. -
Mary Grace WilliamsChaplain, Dean of Community Life, Vicar of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
Mary Grace Williams
Chaplain, Dean of Community Life, Vicar of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
The Rev. Mary Grace Williams, Chaplain of the College/Dean of Community Life, came to Bard College in 2016 and has taught FYSEM each semester since the spring of 2018. In the summer of 2023 she also joined the faculty for Language and Thinking (L&T). She received her B.A. from Rutgers University where she studied Theater Arts (Acting and Directing) which led her to move to NYC directly after college to pursue a career in theater. While living in the West Village, she rediscovered her deep interest in spirituality and religion and that inspired her to do a M.A. in Religious Education from Fordham University. Eventually this led her to seek ordination as an Episcopal priest and she attended Yale Divinity School and earned a M. Div. Mary Grace is excited to be part of the faculty for FYSEM and L&T where she gets to work closely with first year students.
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Questions?For further information, contact Program Assistant Julie Cerulli at [email protected] or 845-758-7514.