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– )
Phone: 845-758-7235
E-mail: armstead@bard.edu

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Leon Botstein
President of the College; Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities
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 (1969–70); president, Franconia College (1970–75). Editor, The Musical Quarterly (1992– ). Music director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ) and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broadcast Authority (2003– ). Conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (1981–92). Coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990– ). Guest conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Bochum Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony, Georg Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Bucharest), Hudson Valley Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madrid Opera, NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), New York City Opera, ORF Orchestra (Vienna), Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Recordings with the American Symphony Orchestra (Arabesque, Vanguard Classics/Omega, Koch/Schwann, New World Records, Telarc); BBC Symphony Orchestra (Chandos, Telarc); Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra (Koch International Classics); London Philharmonic Orchestra (IMP Masters, Telarc); London Symphony Orchestra (Telarc, Carlton Classics); National Philharmonic of Lithuania (Arabesque), NDR Radio Philharmonic (Koch International); NDR Symphony Orchestra (New World Records); Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (CRI); Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Arabesque). Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Austrian Cross of Honor First Class, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Frederic E. Church Award for Arts and Sciences, National Arts Club Gold Medal. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Board chair, Central European University; board member, Open Society Institute, National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Member, National Advisory Committee for Yale–New Haven Teachers, National Council for Chamber Music America. Past chair, Association of Episcopal Colleges, Harper’s Magazine Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities. Articles in newspapers and journals including Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Gramophone, Harper’s, Musical Quarterly, New Republic, New York Times, 19th-Century Music, Partisan Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Salmagundi, Times Literary Supplement. Essays and chapters in a number of books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Contributor to volumes in the Bard Music Festival series on Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Dvoˇrák, Elgar, Haydn, Ives, Janáˇcek, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Schumann, Shostakovich, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky, published by Princeton University Press. Editor, The Compleat Brahms (W. W. Norton, 1999). Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997); Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der Deutschen und Österreichischen Kultur, 1848–1938 (Böhlau Verlag, 1991; Russian translation Belveder, 2003); The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning (forthcoming, Basic Books); Music and Modernism (forthcoming, Yale University Press). (1975– ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
Phone: 845-758-7423
E-mail: president@bard.edu

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Caleb Carr
James Clarke Chace Professor in Foreign Affairs and the Humanities
B.A., New York University. Novelist and military historian. Novels include The Italian Secretary (Carroll & Graf, 2005); The Alienist (Random House, 1994) and its sequel, The Angel of Darkness (Random House, 1997), both New York Times best sellers; nonfiction works include The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again (Random House, 2002). Contributing writer to New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, many others. Cofounder and contributing editor, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. (2005– )
Phone: 845-758-7296
E-mail: carr@bard.edu

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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– )
Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: crouch@bard.edu

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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– )
Phone: 845-758-7395
E-mail: culp@bard.edu

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Carolyn Dewald
Professor of Classical and Historical Studies
Languages and Literature, Social Studies
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Specializes in classics and ancient historiography. Awards include Princeton University Fellowship (1968–69); University of California Chancellor’s Fellowship (1971); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1979; 1984–85); University of Southern California Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (1991); among others. Visiting distinguished professor, Vassar College (2001–02); Phi Beta Kappa National Lecturer (2002–03); also taught at Stanford University and University of Southern California. Publications include introduction and commentary to Herodotus: The Histories (Oxford University Press, 1998); Thucydides’ War Narrative: A Structural Study (University of California Press, 2005); The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (edited with John Marincola, Cambridge University Press, 2006); and numerous articles in academic journals. (2003– )
Phone: 845-758-7090
Website: http://inside.bard.edu/academic/programs/classics/faculty/dewald.shtml
E-mail: dewald@bard.edu

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Tabetha Ewing
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University. Fulbright Fellowship, France (1993–94). (1998– )
Phone: 845-758-7548
E-mail: ewing@bard.edu

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John C. Fout
Professor Emeritus of History
B.A., M.A., University of Nebraska at Omaha; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Phi Alpha Theta; Fulbright Fellowship, Germany (1964–65). Member of editorial boards, Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Men’s Studies. Coeditor, European Women, A Documentary History, 1789–1945 (1980) and American Sexual Politics (1993). Editor, German Women in the Nineteenth Century, A Social History (1984); Forbidden History (1992). Author of essays and reviews in many scholarly journals. Founding editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality and the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society (University of Chicago Press). Historical consultant for The History of Sex, five-part series on the History Channel (1999). (1969–2000) Professor Emeritus of History.
Phone: 845-758-6822

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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 The Yivo 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– )
Phone: 845-758-7543
E-mail: kuznitz@bard.edu

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Mark H. Lytle
Professor of History; Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program
B.A., Cornell University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Fulbright Scholar: Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, University College, Dublin (2000, 2004). Author, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (2007); America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (2006); After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (5th ed., 2004); Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (6th ed., 2007); The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941–1953 (1987). Editorial board, Diplomatic History; consultant, McGraw-Hill, Oxford and Yale University Presses. Recipient, National Endow­ment for the Humanities grant for Bard College Summer Institute: “The Age of the Roosevelts”; member, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Scholars Panel. External examiner in American studies, University of Nottingham, and in history, University of Limerick. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1974– )
Phone: 845-758-7238
E-mail: lytle@bard.edu

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Peter Maguire
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Bard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Author, Facing Death in Cambodia (2005, Columbia University Press); Love and War: An American Story (2001, Columbia University Press). Articles published in New York Newsday, Fathom, The Independent, others. Guest and commentator on Air America's Morning Sedition; ABC, WNYC, and KPFK radio; NDR Television (Germany). Board member, Columbia University Oral History Project; wrote brief for the defense in the David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt (Penguin Books) case in England (2001). Has lectured at Columbia University Law School, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Free University of Brussels, University of Southern California, University of Hawaii, among others. Member, Bard College Board of Trustees (2004 ). (2007 ) Visiting Assistant Professor of History.
Phone: 845-758-6822

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Gregory B. Moynahan
Assistant Professor of History; Co-director, Science, Technology, and Society Program
B.A., Wesleyan University; graduate studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; M.A., D.Phil., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Recipient, Bundeskanzler, DAAD, Charlotte W. Newcombe, and Foreign Language Area Studies (Czech) fellowships. Specialization in modern European intellectual and cultural history and the history of technology. Research interests include history of theoretical biology, systems theory, and “scientific” racism and political history of computing and cybernetics in the two Germanys. Articles in Science in Context, Simmel Studies, and Qui Parle.
Phone: 845-758-7296
E-mail: moynahan@bard.edu

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Joel Perlmann
Levy Institute Research Professor; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute; Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program 
B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Ph.D., Harvard University. Research grants from NIMH, NEH, NSF, NIE, Spencer and Russell Sage Foundations, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Author of Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880–1935 (winner of the Willard Waller Award, American Sociological Association); Woman’s Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920 (with Robert Margo); Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immi­grant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890–2000. Coeditor, Immigrants, Schooling, and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference? and The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals. Papers in numerous journals, including Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, The Annals, Historical Methods, International Migration Review, The Public Interest. Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute (1994– ). (1994– )
Phone: 845-758-7726
E-mail: perlmann@bard.edu

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George Robb
Professor of History
B.A., University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., Northwestern University. Author, White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929 (Cambridge University Press, 1992); British Culture and the First World War (Palgrave, 2002). Coeditor, Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1999). Has taught British history at Northwestern University, St. Bonaventure University, William Paterson University. (2000–01; 2004– )
Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: robb@bard.edu

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Gennady Shkliarevsky
Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Kiev State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia. Editor, Committee for Television and Broadcasting (U.S.S.R.). Head, public relations, Kiev State Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Recipient, DuPont Fellowship and Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, University of Virginia. Publications include Labor in the Russian Revolution: Factory Committees and Trade Unions, 1917–1918 and articles in Journal of International Studies in Management and Organization, Russian History/Histoire Russe, Journal of Modern History, Dialogue, Annandale, Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New York), Forum (Germany), Rossiiskaia gazeta (Russia), Nevskoe vremia (Russia). (1985– )
Phone: 845-758-7237
E-mail: shkliare@bard.edu

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Alice Stroup
Professor of History
 B.A., City College of New York; Diploma in the history and philosophy of science (with distinction) and D.Phil., Oxford University. Postdoctoral grants: American Council of Learned Societies; American Philosophical Society; Fulbright Foundation; National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities. Author of Royal Funding of the Parisian Academy of Sciences during the 1690s and A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences, as well as articles and reviews. (1980– )
Phone: 845-758-7234
E-mail: stroup@bard.edu

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