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Richard Davis, director

Core Faculty

Michiko Baribeau
Sanjib Baruah
Robert J. Culp
Richard H. Davis
Sanjaya DeSilva
Mercedes Dujunco
Patricia Karetzky
Laura Kunreuther
Hoyt Long
Kristin Scheible
Yuka Suzuki
Li-Hua Ying

Affiliated Faculty

Ian Buruma
Benjamin La Farge
Chiori Miyagawa
William Mullen
Yuka Suzuki
Richard Teitelbaum
Hap Tivey

Michiko Baribeau
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese

B.A., Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan; graduate study, Portland State University, Columbia University. Taught at Dutchess Community College and led seminars in Japanese language, culture, and customer service for IBM, Siemens, and other corporate clients. Certified ikebana instructor by Ikenobo Ikebana Society of Kyoto, Japan. Author, Hamayuu—Contemporary Tanka Poetry; Tantakatan—Contemporary Tanka Poetry and Essays. (2002– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese.
Phone: 845-758-6822 x6430
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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 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 American Political Science Review, Asian Survey, The Book Review (New Delhi), Cultural Survival Quarterly, Development and Change, Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), Global Dialogue (Nicosia), Harvard International Review, Himal (Kathmandu), Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Modern Asian Studies, National Political Science Review, Socialism and Democracy, South Asia Bulletin, and World Policy Review. (1983– ) Professor of Political Studies.
Phone: 845-758-7204
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Robert J. Culp
Associate Professor of History

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China. Specialization in modern Chinese and Japanese history, nationalism, citizenship, education and ideology, ethnicity, and the politics of historical discourse. Articles and reviews in Modern China, Twentieth-Century China, and Journal of Asian Studies. (1999– ) Assistant Professor of History.
Phone: 845-758-7395
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Richard H. Davis
Professor of Religion; Director of the Religion Program

B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Assistant Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University (1987–97). Research associate, Yale University Center for International and Area Studies. Publications: Lives of Indian Images (1997), winner of 1999 A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize; Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India (1991). Edited volumes: Images, Miracles, and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions; Iconography and the Nation in India. Contributor, History and Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Oriental Research, and History of Religions. Fellowships include Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities. (1997– ) Professor of Religion.
Phone: 845-758-7364
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Sanjaya DeSilva
Assistant Professor of Economics

B.A., Macalester College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Postdoctoral research, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2000–01). Honors and awards include Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Ford Foundation research grants, and Yale University fellowships. Publications include Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion papers "Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms" and "Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, The Philippines." Specialization in economics of development, applied microeconomics, and international economics. (2000– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.
Phone: 845-758-7072
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Mercedes Dujunco
Associate Professor of Music

B.M., University of the Philippines; Ph.D., University of Washington; also postgraduate studies at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ethnomusicologist; specializes in traditional and popular music of China, Vietnam, and Chinese diasporic communities of Thailand. First prize, Piano Competitions, Category C, National Music Competitions for Young Artists, Manila (1982). Recipient, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (1996–98); Boeing Award for academic excellence, University of Washington. Has taught and conducted research at New York University and University of Alberta. (2005– ) Associate Professor of Music.
Phone: 845-758-6822
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Patricia Karetzky
Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History

B.A., New York University; M.A., Hunter College; Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Adjunct professor, Lehman College, CUNY. Publications include The Life of the Buddha; Court Art of the Tang; Early Buddhist Narratives (2000); contributions to Artibus Asiae, T’ang Studies, Oriental Art, others. Editor, Journal of Chinese Religions. Curator, Art of the Twentieth Century and Traditional Chinese Literary Culture (1998), Lehman College Art Gallery and Bard College; Confessions: The Contemporary Art of Asian Women (2001), Hammond Art Gallery. (1988– ) Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History.
Phone: 845-758-7247
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Laura Kunreuther
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Director of Anthropology

B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Extensive on-site research in Kathmandu. Teaching and research interests include cultural memory, language and culture, media, violence, South Asia. Awards include Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, NMERTA-SSRC South Asia Fellowships (2). Author of numerous articles and conference presentations. (2001– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Phone: 845-758-7215
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Hoyt Long
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature

B.A., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Areas of expertise include classical and modern Chinese and Japanese literature. Has taught Japanese language, literature, and culture at University of Michigan (2001 03); coordinated lecture series for Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo (2004 06). Recipient, Rackham One-Term Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan (2006); CJS Endowment Fellowship, University of Michigan (2006); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ABD Fellowship (2004 05). (2007 ) Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature.
Phone: 845-758-7808
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Kristin Scheible
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religon

B.A., Colby College; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. Areas of interest include Theravada Buddhism, art and literature of medieval South and Southeast Asia. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (1997–2002); lecturer, Brown University (2003). Nominated for Levenson Memorial Teaching Award, Harvard (2000, 2002); received Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Award for every undergraduate section taught at Harvard. (2003– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion.
Phone: 845-758-7207
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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– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Phone: 845-758-7219
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Li-Hua Ying
Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Chinese Program

B.A., Yunnan Normal University, China; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Instructor of Chinese, Southwestern University (1988–90). Executive director, Calligraphy Education (2002– ). (1998– ) Associate Professor of Chinese.
Phone: 845-758-7545
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Ian Buruma
Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism

Studies in Chinese literature and history at Leyden University; graduate studies in Japanese cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. Documentary filmmaker and photographer in Tokyo (1977–80); cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong (1983–86); foreign editor of The Spectator, London (1990–91). Fellowships: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (1991–92); Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (1998–99); Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1999–2000). Regular contributor to New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. Books include Behind the Mask (1983); God’s Dust (1988); Playing the Game (1990); The Wages of Guilt (1995); The Missionary and the Libertine (1997); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Bad Elements (2001); Inventing Japan: 1853–1964 (2003). Coauthor, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004). (2003– ) Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism.
Phone: 845-758-7535
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Benjamin La Farge
Professor of English; Chair, Division of Languages and Literature

B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College; graduate study, Balliol College, Oxford University. Editorial experience at magazines and book publishers in Boston and New York (1957–67), including senior editor, Signet Classics and Mentor Books. Poems in New Republic and other journals; articles on Irish fiction writer William Trevor in British Writers, Supplement IV (1997); Irish poet Richard Murphy in British Writers, Supplement V (1999); American critic and political writer John Jay Chapman in Hudson Valley Regional Review (1998); and theory of comedy in Journal of Philosophy and Literature (2004). Instructor in writing, City College of New York (1968). (1968– ) Professor of English.
Phone: 845-758-7206
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Chiori Miyagawa
Playwright in Residence, Playwriting Program Head

Chiori Miyagawa is a Japanese-born, Asian American playwright and dramaturg. Chiori’s plays include America Dreaming (at Vineyard Theatre and Music-Theatre Group, published in Global Foreigners); Nothing Forever (at New York Theatre Workshop, published in Positive/Negative Women) and Yesterday’s Window (New York Theatre Workshop, published in Take Ten); Woman Killer (Crossing Jamaica Avenue in co-production with HERE, published in Plays and Playwrights 2002), Jamaica Avenue (New York International Fringe Festival, published in Tokens? The NYC Asian American Experiences on Stage), Antigone’s Red (Virginia Tech, published in Take Ten II), Red Again/Antigone Project (Women’s Project) and others. She has been awarded many grants and fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, McKnight Playwriting Fellowship, Van Lier Playwriting Fellowhsip, Multi-Arts Production Fund (twice), Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Rockefeller Bellagio Residency and a Radcliffe Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University. She is a Resident Playwright of New Dramatists and serves on the board of ART/N.Y. For seven years, she was an Artistic Associate of New York Theatre Workshop where she managed the fellowship for emerging artists of color prior to accepting the position offered by director JoAnne Akalaitis to create an undergraduate playwriting program at Bard.
Phone: 845-758-7938
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William Mullen
Professor of Classics

B.A., Harvard College; Ph.D., University of Texas. Professor at University of California, Berkeley; Boston University; St. John’s College. Specializations: Greek poetry, classical tradition, China/ India/Greece, ancient athletics, public speaking. Publications include Choreia: Pindar and Dance (Princeton, 1982); articles on Greek poetry, pre-Socratic philosophy, American founders’ engagement with Rome, Nietzsche; op eds and reviews in New York Sun; translations and poetry, including "Enchanted Rock" in Best American Poems of 1998. Dramaturge, The Songs of Sappho. Has led West Point–Bard joint seminars since 1985; has worked with survivors of combat trauma and juvenile delinquents; has done public speaking in prisons. (1985– ) Professor of Classics.
Phone: 845-758-7271
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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– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Phone: 845-758-7219
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Richard Teitelbaum
Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Co-Chair, Music/Sound. B.A., Haverford College; M.M., School of Music, Yale University. Known principally for live electronic and interactive computer music composition. Has performed his compositions at numerous venues, including Philharmonic Hall, Berlin; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; Merkin Hall, New York; Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002 03); Prix Ars Electronica from Austrian Radio and Television (1987); commissions from Venice Biennale, German Radio, New York State Council on the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer/NEA Commissioning Program, and Rockefeller Foundation; Fulbright grants to Italy and Japan. Professor of Music, Bard College.
Phone: 845-758-7358
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Hap Tivey
Artist-in-Residence; Director of Integrated Arts Program

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School. Monastic practice: Hofuku-ji and Tofuku-ji, Japan. Solo exhibitions include Blum Helman, Diane Brown, New York; Elizabeth Leach, Portland, Oregon; Landau-Alexander, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles; Picasso Studio, Paris. Collections include Dia Center for the Arts; Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1, New York; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; AT&T, Prudential, Federal Reserve, and Bank of America collections. Awards include National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Lockheed, and Katherine Roen fellowships. Publications include The Art of Light and Space, Shift L.A./N.Y., Rooms P.S. 1, Artforum, Art in America, Art News. (1995– ) Artist in Residence.
Phone: 845-758-7113
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