Bard College Awarded $1.35 Million Grant in Support of Humanities Curricular Innovation Project
Bard College is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1.35 Million from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative for the project, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” which responds to the rise of unreliable digital media, heightened by the proliferation of AI-generated content. The project is led by four Bard faculty members: Associate Professor of History and Latin American and Iberian Studies Miles V. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Nabanjan Maitra, Associate Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi, and Assistant Professor of Medieval History Valentina A. Grasso.
Bard Student Yale Coopersmith ’26 Recognized as ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Award Recipient
Yale Coopersmith ’26, a senior at Bard College, has been included in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge’s honor roll as a leader in nonpartisan campus civic engagement for her dedicated work with Election@Bard. Coopersmith was one of 168 students across the country who was recognized for contributions to creating a more civically engaged culture within their campus communities. Read More >>Fisher Center LAB Presents the World Premiere of Suddenly Last Summer, MacArthur Fellow Courtney Bryan’s First Work for the Stage, Based on Tennessee Williams’s Play, June 25 – July 19
Fisher Center LAB presents the world premiere of 2023 MacArthur Fellow and “pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (The New York Times) Courtney Bryan’s Suddenly Last Summer, co-produced by Opera Philadelphia, June 25 – July 19 at the Fisher Center, as part of Bard SummerScape 2026. Read More >>More Bard News
- M. Gessen Produces New Podcast Series, The Idiot, with Serial Team
- Stephen Shore Announced as Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Concert by Tan Dun and The Orchestra Now Reviewed in the Millbrook Independent
- Alumna Abigail Wilson ’23 Receives National Science Foundation 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship
- Jonathan Becker Writes Opinion Piece for WAMC
- National Summer Course and Training Launches with 15+ Partner Organizations to Educate the Next Generation of Students in Voting Rights & Democracy