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Amy Ansell, Sociology (Program Chair, 2005–present) Core Faculty:
Susan Aberth
Amy Ansell
Myra Young Armstead
Thurman Barker
Sanjib Baruah
Mario J.A. Bick
Diana De G. Brown
Christian Ayne Crouch
Tabetha Ewing
Donna Ford Grover
Cecile E. Kuznitz
Geoffrey Sanborn
Yuka Suzuki
Elaine Renee Thomas
Susan Aberth Assistant Professor of Art History B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Recipient, professional development fellowship, the College Art Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Author of Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art (Lund Humphries, London and Turner, Madrid, 2004). Chair, Test Development Committee for Art History AP exams, Educational Testing Service and College Board. Professor of Latin American art, Christie’s Education Master of Arts Program, New York. (2000– ) aberth@bard.edu homepage Amy Ansell Sociology (Program Chair, 2005–present) Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Studies in Race and Ethnicity B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Cambridge University. Author, New Right, New Racism (1997); coauthor, Race and Ethnicity: The Key Concepts(forthcoming). Editor, Unraveling the Right (1998). Contributor, Human Rights and Inequality(forthcoming); The New Black (2007); Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (2007);Multiculturalism in the U.S. (2000); The Global Color Line (1999). Articles and reviews inPolitikon, American Journal of Sociology, Critical Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. Research associate, University of the Witwatersrand, South African Human Sciences Research Council, South African Human Rights Commission.Associate Dean of International Programs (1994–98). (1992– ) ansell@bard.edu homepage Myra Young Armstead Professor of History; Director, Historical Studies Program; History Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Specialization: U.S. social history, with emphasis on urban and African American history. Fellowships: Danforth-Compton, Josephine de Karman, University of Chicago Trustees, and New York State African-American Research Institute. Frederick Douglass Award, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (Sullivan County, New York, chapter). Speaker in the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities (2003–05). Author of “Lord, Please Don’t Take Me in August”: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs (1999) and Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley (2003). Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College (2004). (1985– ) Thurman Barker Associate Professor of Music B.A., Empire State College; additional study at Roosevelt University and the American Conservatory of Music. Taught at Creative Music School, Cornish Institute, and American Conservatory of Music and lectured and gave demonstrations in New York City public schools. Grants: “Meet the Composer,” New York State Council on the Arts; performance grants, National Endowment for the Arts. Profiled in Modern Drummer and Down Beat. Recordings with, among others, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Sam Rivers. (1993– ) tbarker@bard.edu Sanjib Baruah Professor of Political Studies B.A., Cotton College, Gauhati, India; M.A., University of Delhi, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Publications include Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India (Washington, D.C.: East-West Center, 2007); Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2005); India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (1999); and articles and reviews in academic journals. Writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in South Asia. Concurrent professorial appointments: Center for Policy Research, New Delhi; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. (1983– ) baruah@bard.edu Mario J.A. Bick Professor of Anthropology B.A., Columbia College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Ethnographic research in the United States, Zambia, Brazil, and Liberia. Reviews in Africa Report, Jewish Social Studies,Encontros com a Civilizacão Brasileira, American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist. Articles in American Ethnologist, Journal of Human Evolution, Revista Brasileira de Sociologia, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. (1970– ) homepage Diana De G. Brown Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies; Co-director, Gender Studies Program B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Fellowships: Fulbright-Hays; Ford Foundation; Lehman College, CUNY; Columbia University. Research and teaching in Brazil and Liberia. Publications include Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Urban Brazil and articles and reviews in Black Brazil: Culture, Identity and Social Mobilization; The State of Siege: Global Process, Identity and Violence; American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Luso-Brazilian Review; Religião e Sociedade; and Liberian Studies Journal. Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil. Cochair, Metropolitan Medical Anthropology Asso ci ation. (1988– ) dbrown@bard.edu homepage Christian Ayne Crouch Assistant Professor of History B.A., Princeton University; M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D., New York University. Recipient, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006), W. H. B. Dowse Fellowship (2003–04), Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship (2003–04, 2004 –05). Specialization in early modern Atlantic world history, colonial America, slavery, and empire. (2006– ) crouch@bard.edu Tabetha Ewing Assistant Professor of History B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University. Fulbright Fellowship, France (1993–94). (1998– ) ewing@bard.edu Donna Ford Grover Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature B.A., Bard College; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Reviewer, assistant examiner, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey. Advertising and market research, Mapes & Ross, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey. (1999– ) Cecile E. Kuznitz Assistant Professor of Jewish History; Director of Jewish Studies A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Awarded fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies (1997–98); Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2002); Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2004); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2007). Has lectured at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Harvard University, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania. Articles published in TheYivo Encyclopedia of the Jews in Eastern Europe; S. Ansky at the Turn of the Century; The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies; Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now.Visiting assistant professor of Jewish history/Jewish studies, Georgetown University (2000– ). (2003– ) Geoffrey Sanborn Associate Professor of Literature A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Taught at Williams College, Fairfield University, UCLA. Author, The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (1998). Editor, New Riverside Edition of Herman MelvilleÕs Typee (2003). Recipient, 2005 Foerster Prize for best essay in American Literature; 2002 Parker Prize for best essay in PMLA; 1999 Cohen Award for best essay or chapter on Melville. Recent essays include studies of Frances Harper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Sandra Cisneros, Emily Dickinson. (2001– ) sanborn@bard.edu Yuka Suzuki Assistant Professor of Anthropology B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University. Areas of interest: Zimbabwe, political ecology, whiteness, race, cultural politics of animals, postcolonial theory, nationalism, violence, development. Awards include Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Grant (1998–99); Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Research Grant (1998–99). Author, “Drifting Rhinos and Fluid Properties: The Turn to Wildlife Production in Zimbabwe” (Journal of Agrarian Change); coeditor, “Zimbabwe: The Politics of Crisis and the Crisis of Politics.” Teaching experience at Georgetown University (2001–02), Yale University, Quinnipiac University. (2003– ) ysuzuki@bard.edu homepage Elaine Renee Thomas Assistant Professor of Political Studies B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Fellowships and awards: Stanley Hoffman Prize, Joan B. Kroc Institute Visiting Fellowship, Mark Rozance Memorial Dissertation Award, Doreen B. Townsend Center Fellowship, SSRC-MacArthur Fellowship, Fulbright (declined), many others. Papers presented at conferences of American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Council of European Studies. Invited lectures at New York University Center for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, Université du Québec à Montréal, Institut d’études politiques (Paris), CSO-CNRS. Recent publications include articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Journal of Social Theory, French Politics, Journal of European Area Studies. (2002– ) ethomas@bard.edu |
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