F A C U L T Y Mario Bick Leon Botstein Hezi Brosh Bruce Chilton Yuval Elmelech Elizabeth Frank Cecile E. Kuznitz (Director of Jewish Studies) Norman Manea Jacob Neusner Joel Perlmann Justus Rosenberg   back to top     Bick, Mario Professor of Anthropology Division of Social Studies, Anthropology B.A., Columbia College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Taught at CUNY Hunter College; SUNY Stony Brook; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Barnard College; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil); Cuttington University College (Liberia). Archaeological and ethnographic research in United States, Zambia, Brazil, and Liberia. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship (1981). Reviews in Africa Report, Jewish Social Studies, Econtros com a Civilizacão Brasileira, American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist. Articles in American Ethnologist, Journal of Human Evolution, Revista Brasileira de Sociologia, Colliers and Columbia encyclopedias, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and elsewhere. (1970— ) Professor of Anthropology. E-mail: bick@bard.edu back to top   Leon Botstein President of the College Division of the Arts, Music Program B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History. Lecturer, Department of History, Boston University (1969); special assistant to the president, Board of Education, City of New York (1969o70); president, Franconia College (1970o75); founder and principal conductor, White Mountain Music and Arts Festival (1973o75); visiting professor, Manhattan School of Music (1986); visiting professor of cultural history and humanities, Hochschule f,r angewandte Kunst, Vienna (spring 1988). Editor, The Musical Quarterly (1992o ); music director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992o ); conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (1981o92); principal guest conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic (1991o92); artistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990o ); artistic director, American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (1995o ). Guest conductor, ORF Vienna (1995); Symphony Orchestra of So Paulo (1995); National Philharmonic of Lithuania (1996, 1999); Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1998); D,sseldorf Symphoniker (1999); Israel Sinfonietta (1999); Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1999); Delaware Symphony Orchestra (2000); NDR Orchestra, Hannover, Germany (2000); Bern Symphony Orchestra (2000). Recordings with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (CRI, 1990, 1992); London Philharmonic (with Elmar Oliveira, IMP Masters, 1991; Telarc, 1998, 1999, 2000); American Symphony Orchestra (Vanguard Classics/Omega, 1993; Koch/Schwann, 1995); Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Arabesque, 1998); NDR Radio Philharmonic (Koch International, 1999); National Philharmonic of Lithuania (Arabesque, 2000). Recipient of the Frederic E. Church Award for Arts and Sciences, Berlin Prize Fellowship (American Academy, Berlin), 1996 Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, National Arts Club Gold Medal (1995). Fellowships: Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, Sloan, and Rockefeller Foundation. Past chairman, Association of Episcopal Colleges, New York Council for the Humanities, and Harperis Magazine Foundation. Member, National Advisory Committee for the YaleoNew Haven Teachers Institute; fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Articles in Change, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Current Musicology, Daedalus, Harperis, Jewish Social Studies, Journal of Modern History, Musical Quarterly, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Republic, New York Times, 19th-Century Music, Partisan Review, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Salmagundi, Symphony, Times Literary Supplement, and other journals and collections. Contributor to volumes on Brahms, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Dvor.k, Schumann, BartUk, Ives, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg, and Beethoven published by Princeton University Press. Editor, The Compleat Brahms (W. W. Norton & Co., 1999). Author, Jeffersonis Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997); Music and Its Public: Habits of Listening and the Crisis of Musical Modernism in Vienna, 1870o1914 (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press); Judentum und Modernitt (Bhlau Verlag: Vienna, 1991; English translation forthcoming, Yale University Press); The History of Listening (forthcoming, Penguin Press). (1975o ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. back to top   Brosh, Hezi Associate Professor of Arabic and Hebrew Division of Languages and Literature, Arabic; Hebrew; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures B.A., Teacher’s Certificate, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University; M.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Taught at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Tel Aviv University; Hofstra University. (1998— ) Associate Professor of Arabic and Hebrew. E-mail: brosh@bard.edu back to top   Chilton, Bruce Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion; Chaplain of the College; Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Theology Division of Social Studies, Religion B.A., Bard College; M.Div., General Theological Seminary, Columbia University; ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood; Ph.D., Cambridge University. Lillian Claus Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale University (1986—87); appointments at Union Theological Seminary, Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, St. John’s College, Sheffield University. Books include Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, God in Strength, Judaic Approaches to the Gospels, Revelation, Trading Places, Jesus’ Prayer and Jesus’ Eucharist, Forging a Common Future, and Jesus’ Baptism and Jesus’ Healing. Articles in many journals. Editor in chief, Bulletin for Biblical Research; founding editor, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Studying the Historical Jesus series (E. J. Brill and Eerdman’s). Fellowships and awards: with Jacob Neusner, Choice magazine award, best academic book (1998); Evangelical Scholars Fellowship, A. Whitney Griswold Center (Yale University); Heinrich Hertz Stiftung, Theological Development Fund of the Episcopal Church, National Conference of Christians and Jews. (1987— ) Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion, Chaplain of the College, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Theology. E-mail: chilton@bard.edu back to top   Elmelech, Yuval Assistant Professor of Sociology Division of Social Studies, Sociology B.A., M.A., Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. Taught at Columbia University; Open University, College of Education, and Tel Aviv University (Israel). Fellowships: Public Policy Consortium, Columbia University; Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; National Science Foundation grant; Paul Lazarsfeld Fellowship, Columbia University. Published in many scholarly journals. (2001— ) Assistant Professor of Sociology. E-mail elmelech@bard.edu back to top   Frank, Elizabeth Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages & Literature Division of Languages and Literature, Literature B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Taught at UC Berkeley, Mills College, Williams College, UC Irvine, Temple University. Fellowships: Ford Foundation (1967—72); Temple University (1977); The Newbery Library (1977); American Council of Learned Societies (1977); National Endowment for the Humanities. Recipient, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Louise Bogan: A Portrait (1985). Author of numerous articles on literature, art, and literary and art criticism in New York Arts Journal, Art in America, Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, ARTnews, Bennington Review, The Nation, Salmagundi, New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, others. Author, Jackson Pollock (1983) and Esteban Vicente (1995). Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. (1982— ) Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature. E-mail frank@bard.edu back to top   Kuznitz, Cecile E. Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Co-Director of Jewish Studies Division of Social Studies, Historical Studies B.A. Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Taught at Stanford University, Georgetown University. Fellowships: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; American Council of Learned Societies; Lucius N. Littauer Foundation; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Publications: Articles in Between Two Worlds: S. Ansky at the Turn of the Century; The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies; Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now; reviews in The Forward and Bridges. Assistant Professor of Jewish History E-mail: kuznitz@bard.edu back to top Manea, Norman Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture and Writer in Residence Division of Languages and Literature, Literature Born 1936, Suceava in Bukovina, Romania. Deported 1941 to concentration camp, Transnistria, Ukraine. Educated at Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest. First published in an influential but later suppressed avant-garde magazine Povestea Vorbii (1966). Author of novels, volumes of shorter fiction, and collections of essays, with translations into more than 10 languages. Awards and honors: Association of Bucharest Writers (1979); Writer’s Union of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1984) (prize withdrawn on instruction of Romanian authorities); DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm (1987); Fulbright Fellowship (1989); Guggenheim Fellowship (1992); MacArthur Fellowship (1992); Literary Lion Award (New York Public Library, 1993); National Jewish Book Award for On Clowns (1993). Principal publications are Noaptea pe latura lunga (The Night on the Long Side, 1969); Captivi (Captive, 1970); Atrium (1974); Primele porti (The First Gates, 1975); Cartea fiului (The Son’s Book, 1976); Zilele si jocul (The Days and the Game, 1977); Anii de ucenicie ai lui August Prostul (The Years of the Apprenticeship of Augustus the Fool, 1979); Octombrie, ora opt (October, Eight O’ Clock, 1981); Pe contur (On the Contour, 1984); Plicul negru (The Black Envelope, 1986). (1989— ) Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture; Writer in Residence. E-mail: manea@bard.edu back to top Neusner, Jacob Research Professor of Religion & Theology; Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theology Division of Social Studies, Religion; Theology A.B., Harvard College; graduate studies, Oxford University, Hebrew University; Master of Hebrew Letters, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Ph.D., Columbia University. University Professor and Ungerleider Distinguished Scholar of Judaic Studies, Brown University; Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Florida; Martin Buber Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Frankfurt. Taught at Cambridge University, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), University of Göttingen, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Dartmouth College, others. Writings include A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai, A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Aphrahat and Judaism: The Christian Jewish Argument in Fourth Century Iran, Development of a Legend: Studies on the Traditions Concerning Yohanan ben Zakkai, The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70, The Talmud: Close Encounters, The Mishnah, From Politics to Piety, Judaism: The Classical Statement, Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity, Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine, Androgynous Judaism, Judaism in the Secular Age. Editor, Encyclopedia of Judaism (1999), South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, other series. Frequent lectures and presentations. Awards include nine honorary degrees; 14 academic medals and prizes. Fellowships: Fulbright Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies. (1994— ) Bard Center Fellow, Research Professor of Religion and Theology. E-mail: neusner@bard.edu back to top   Perlmann, Joel Senior Scholar; Levy Institute Research Professor Division of Social Studies, Historical Studies B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Ph.D., history and sociology, Harvard University (1980). Samuel Stouffer Fellow (1974o76) and research associate (1976o82), Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Lecturer, Harvard University (1981o82); assistant professor (1982o87), associate professor (1987o92), senior research associate (1992o95), Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1994o95). Research grants from National Institute of Education, National Institute of Mental Health; National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation; Spencer Foundation; Russell Sage Foundation. Author of Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880o1935 (1988; winner of the Willard Waller Award, American Sociological Association), Teaching and Gender in the United States: A Social and Economic History (forthcoming). Papers in Journal of American History, Journal of Social History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, William and Mary Quarterly, The Annals, Historical Methods, American Jewish History, others. Specialization in U.S. social history, especially immigration and ethnicity, education, social structure, quantitative study of historical evidence. Senior Scholar, Jerome Levy Economics Institute (1994o ). (1994o ) Levy Institute Research Professor. E-mail: perlmann@bard.edu back to top   Rosenberg, Justus Professor Emeritus of Languages & Literature Division of Languages and Literature, Literature Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; L.L., Sorbonne, Paris. Postdoctoral research fellow, Columbia University, Syracuse University, University of Belgrade. Taught at University of Cincinnati, Swarthmore College, New York University Graduate School. Professor of humanities, New School University. Professor and chairman of Western area studies, Nanyang University, Singapore. Consultant in linguistics, University of Malaysia. Lecturer, New York Council for the Humanities; University of Cologne; Sorbonne, Paris. Publications: Constant Factors in Translation; Russia: Past and Present; Sound and Structure; Rilkeis Duino Elegies; Bertolt Brecht in Mandarin; Le Bateau Sobre; reviews; translations. (1962o ) Professor of Languages and Literature. E-mail: rosenber@bard.edu   back to top