BARD COLLEGE - Key Persons
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- Bilingual Instructional Aide
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- Faculty in Special Education
- Faculty in Special Education / BS, MEd, Cleveland State University
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- Program Manager of the Open Society University Network
- Program Manager, Network Collaborative Courses, Open Society University Network
Anita is the program manager of the Open Society University Network (OSUN) network collaborative courses. Prior to joining the OSUN team, she developed and oversaw academic program initiatives for the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) at City University of New York (CUNY). Besides curriculum development, Anita is passionate about teaching and community empowerment through education. She has taught Russian language and Contemporary Civilization, a core curriculum class, while at Columbia University, first-year seminars at CUNY, and literature and creative writing courses in non-academic settings for veterans, the justice-involved, the mentally disabled, undocumented immigrants and survivors of intimate partner violence. Anita earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cultural Studies. Her research explores the impact of trauma on perception, language use, and aesthetic preferences in literature and the arts.
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- Director of Program Development and Communications for the Open Society University Network
- Director, OSUN Program Development & Communications Associate Director, CCE
Bonnie Goad is the Director of Program Development and Communications for the Open Society University Network, where she serves as a member of the OSUN Secretariat at Bard College. Bonnie is also the Associate Director of the Bard College Center for Civic Engagement where she provides leadership in the development and oversight of initiatives that are the infrastructure of CCE's local, national, and international programs. With more than 35 years of experience leading education programs and non-profit organizations, Bonnie has a long history of finding creative ways to support important educational initiatives and communicate their value. She holds an MA in Health and Education from New York University and a BA from American University.
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- Faculty in Physical Education and Health
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- Associate
- Associate Dean of Civic Engagement and Director of Strategic Partnerships at BGIA / Program Director, SUSI
Brian Mateo serves as Associate Dean of Civic Engagement where he works with faculty and students across the Open Society University Network on experiential learning and civic engagement opportunities. Additionally, Mateo has worked with public diplomacy programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on U.S. foreign policy as well as civic engagement and has cultivated a network of over 100 scholars from 59 countries. He is a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project, a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a trained Climate Reality Leader under former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. He has written and spoken about climate change and vulnerable populations worldwide. His articles include the ethical implications of climate change for education and a case for giving climate migrants protected legal status. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of BYKids and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
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- Program Manager, OSUN Civic Engagement Initiative
MBA, Sustainable Business, Bard College; B.A., Political Science, The State University of New York at New Paltz. Caitlin O'Donnell joins the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) and Open Society University Network (OSUN) after several years working in Admissions and Recruiting for Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability. Caitlin worked as the key point of contact for domestic and international prospective graduate students and drew upon her knack for project management to bring admissions and recruitment initiatives to fruition. While at Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Caitlin earned her MBA in Sustainable Business. Caitlin co-founded the Bard MBA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and serves on the Bard MBA Strategic Growth Committee, College Council for Inclusive Excellence, and Staff Mentor Committee. In her role with the Center for Civic Engagement and the Open Society University Network, Caitlin will be working with OSUN leadership on cultivating partnerships, management of partner institution relations, oversight of Bard-sponsored programs, and helping to assure that the link between the CCE and OSUN is operating effectively. Caitlin's interests lie at the intersection between environmental and social sustainability with a particular focus on developing organization level strategies to reorient existing structures to uplift individuals from all backgrounds and social groups into leadership roles and drawing upon the power of network building and collaboration to equip future leaders to address the world's most pressing challenges.
Originally from Dallas, TX, Cammie has consistently created pathways towards social justice and civic engagement in higher education for over 15 years. She is a first-generation college student and holds a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Louisiana State University A&M. Cammie is the CEO and Founder of J. Jones Consulting, LLC and also serves as the Bard Center for Civic Engagement and Open Society University Network (OSUN) Senior Fellow. Cammie served as an Assistant and Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement during her prior tenure at Bard. Furthermore she has served in high level executive roles at Dutchess Community College, Marist College and Barnard College. She has taught fall and summer courses on empowerment of women at Bard and OSUN, including Women and Leadership, Women and COVID 19: Activism, Leadership, and Global Engagement, and most recently Women and the Pandemic, to help amplify the voices of the next generation of leaders. She has also organized a number of international and domestic conferences on civic engagement, young leadership development, and the future of women's rights. Cammie has dedicated her life to service and leadership, sitting on several boards and committees for local nonprofits and receiving numerous accolades for her contributions to higher education and community engagement. She recently received the 2021 ATHENA Award from the Chamber Foundation Inc., as well as the 2012 Forty Under 40 Class from the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, the N4A 2014 Professional Promise Award for Region 1, the AWCC 2017 Forty Under 40 Class, and the 2017 Arc of Dutchess Peggy Martinko Community Trailblazer Award from the Arc of Dutchess.
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- Administrative Assistant, Open Society University Network
Chaya provides logistic and administrative support for a team responsible for the implementation of multiple OSUN initiatives. She moved to the Hudson Valley in Summer 2020 from Los Angeles, CA. Chaya worked as a horse wrangler and chef around the Western US, in Montana, Arizona and Wyoming. In LA, she was involved in numerous volunteer opportunities involving improving city-wide bicycle infrastructure, supporting science-based garden and nutrition classes in elementary public schools, and teaching computer skills and resume building workshops at a community center. Prior to joining OSUN, Chaya worked with the Ulster County Department of Health in their Covid vaccine rollout efforts. Chaya received her BA from Yeshiva University, New York.
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- Director of the Youth Bureau
- Director, Youth Bureau and Ulster County Human Rights Commissioner
Christina "Nina" Dawson is the Director of the Youth Bureau and is the Human Rights Commissioner for Ulster County. Ms. Dawson has served two term as Alderwoman on the Kingston Common Council and is Chair of the Community Development Block Grant Committee. She is known as a passionate advocate for social justice and prison reform, where she has served as an advisor to many community initiatives including My Brothers Keeper (MBK) and the Kingston Police Commission. Prior to her appointment with the County she worked as an administrator at Heath Alliance Hospital in Kingston. Ms Dawson studied at the University of Albany and was born and raised in Kingston. She is a recipient of the 2018 YWCA Women of the Year award.
Christine Gonzalez Stanton was named Executive Director of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2020. Prior to her current role, she was the Director of Operations at the center from 2014-to 2020. As a member of the senior management team at the Hannah Arendt Center, Christine works closely with the Founder & Academic Director, and the Advisory Board. She has a broad responsibility for center-wide operations, external relations, membership programs, fundraising, grant life cycles, community outreach, budget oversight, academic partnerships, and fiscal management. In addition, she oversees human resource management, manages the center's staff & student office fellows, and is the Managing Director of the newly created Hannah Arendt Humanities Network funded by the Open Society University Network.
Her career spans over 20 years in business management working in the fields of higher education, arts, and non-profit community organizations. Christine joined Bard College in 2013 working in the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. In 2014, she transitioned from ODAA to join the team at the Hannah Arendt Center. Her career spans over 20 years in business management working in the fields of higher education, arts, and non-profit community organizations. Prior to joining Bard College, Stanton held positions working for a world-renowned glass artist, Dale Chihuly, in Seattle, WA, where she managed museum and gallery contracts. Stanton earned her BA degree in Sociology from the Ohio State University. She's a member of the National Association of Non-Profit Organizations and Executives and has received numerous awards throughout her career for her commitment to students and the community.
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- Faculty in Chemistry and Biology
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- Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement, Director of Community Partnerships
Cicily joins the CCE staff after 9 years in Student Affairs at Bard most recently as the Director of Residence Life & Housing. Prior to working at Bard, Cicily's career centered on nonprofit management with a focus on public relations, community development and fundraising for many organizations including the Elie Wiesel Foundation, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Girl Scouts. Cicily, originally from Queens, NY, has lived in Kingston with her family for nearly 20 years. She serves as a Commissioner on the City of Kingston's Arts Commission and on the Board of Friends of Forsyth Nature Center and the Kingston Land Trust and has served on the Board of the Junior League of Kingston. Cicily spends most of her time enjoying the Hudson Valley with her family, volunteering, and training for and running road races.
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- Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee
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- Systems & Control Engineering, Case Western Reserve University M.S. Management Science, Weatherhead School of Management Advanced B.a. Mathematics, Occidental College
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- Managing Director, Open Society University Network, Bard and Dean for Global Programs
× Daniel Calingaert Managing Director, Open Society University Network, Bard and Dean for Global Programs dcalingaert@bard.edu B.A., Tufts University; M.Phil. and D.Phil., Oxford University. Serves as Managing Director at Bard of the Open Society University Network, which integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across partner institutions around the world, promotes civic engagement, and expands access for underserved communities to higher education. Previously served as Executive Vice President of Freedom House. Taught at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and American University; published extensively, including in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Democracy, Policy Review, and American Interest; and provided expert testimony nine times to the U.S. Congress.
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- Director of Program Design and Management for Brothers
is a first generation college graduate from Harlem, NY. Dariel graduated from Bard College (Class of 2017) with a joint degree in History and Sociology, and a concentration in Africana-Studies. He is the founder and director of the Brothers At Bard program. Youth development and mentorship is Dariel's passion, and he's been working with young men of color since he was 16 years old. Dariel considers himself a product of brotherhood mentorship programs, and attributes much of his success to the guidance and support he received from his mentors. Growing up in public housing projects and being raised by immigrant parents, Dariel considered the possibilities a proper education could provide to be the only viable way for him to help his family out of poverty. Having witnessed his childhood friends make decisions that negatively impacted their lives because they lacked positive role models and support, Dariel's passion is fueled by his desire to become the kind of mentor his peers never had. Dariel's career goal is to expand on the work he's currently doing and create a nation-wide mentorship and college readiness program for young men of color from underserved communities.
David B. Woolner is the Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute, Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and Professor of History at Marist College. He is the author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace, (Basic Books, 2017) and is editor/co-editor of five books, including Progressivism in America: Past Present and Future (Oxford, 2016), a work based on a conference the Roosevelt Institute organized in collaboration with the CCE and the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin. Woolner has organized a number of CCE events in collaboration with the Roosevelt Institute and FDR Presidential Library, including "US-Russian Relations from Tehran to Yalta and Beyond," an international symposium held at Bard in the fall of 2018 aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the historic ties and tensions inherent in the US-Russian relationship. The symposium featured a dual exhibition of documents, photographs and film footage drawn from the FDR Library selected by a group of Bard students enrolled in a special topics course on US-Russian relations during WWII. Additional historical materials were provided by the Yeltsin Presidential Library, in St. Petersburg, where the main exhibition was housed, supported by a smaller student-curated exhibition held at the Bard College Library and online. Woolner is one of the original drafters of the CCE's U.S. Summer Foreign Policy Institute, has been visiting professor at Bard (fall 2012 & 2018), and has remained a member of the faculty of the Bard Prison Initiative since 2011. An advisor to the Ken Burns film, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, and frequent commentator on the link between the past and the present, his media appearances include interviews with CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera, NPR, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Woolner has held fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge; University College Roosevelt, in the Netherlands; and at University College Dublin. He earned his MA and PhD from McGill University, and his BA, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota.
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- Surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Weill - Cornell Medical Center / Surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Weill - Cornell Medical Center
- Surgeon in New York City
David Becker is a skin cancer surgeon in New York City. He received his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco; Yale University Medical Center; and Harvard Medical School, where he completed a fellowship in Mohs micrographic surgery and cutaneous oncology. He remained on at Massachusetts General Hospital as an NIH research fellow in the molecular biology of basal cell carcinoma. He was in full-time academic medicine for seven years and initiated the program in Mohs surgery / cutaneous oncology at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center, where he remains clinical assistant professor of dermatology.
Becker now manages his own surgical practice in Manhattan, and continues to speak nationally and internationally as well as publish research on skin malignancies and surgery. He is the former president of the New York Dermatologic Society. He has a home in Claverack, New York, and is active in the Columbia County Land Conservancy.
Dr. Kate Flynn has over twenty years in research, teaching, programme development and project delivery. Her expertise covers critical peacebuilding, democratization, ethnic conflict, migration, development, contested heritage, and public policy in divided and transitional societies. Current research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness and impacct of civil society programmes funded by foreign aid. She has worked at universities in South Africa, Ukraine, Israel and the UK, and led research projects covering Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Cyprus. She is also Research Fellow at the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Dr. Leanne Ussher is an authority on the topic of local currencies, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain. Leanne is a Research Fellow at Wolfram Blockchain Labs where she is developing blockchain educational content, and soon to be Research Fellow at Copenhagen Business School where she will use network analysis to assess the social and economic impact of local complementary currencies on informal sectors in Kenya. Leanne is an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Blockchain, and advisor to the Economic Space Agency and Hudson Valley Current, two complementary currencies. Leanne has taught economics, finance, and social entrepreneurship at Queens College, City University of New York, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Bard College New York. Outside of academia Leanne was Senior Economist at Consensys working on blockchain ecosystems, and Securities Analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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- Dean for Social Action / Director of the Trustee Leader Scholar Program
Dr. Paul Marienthal arrived at Bard in 1997. He directs the College's Trustee Leader Scholar Program (TLS), encouraging students to act as hands-on social entrepreneurs inventing new approaches and creating sustainable solutions to initiate change. Paul provides leadership training, retreats, and grant-writing and reflection workshops. These social action programs provide tools for students interested in creating and developing self-initiated projects with a mission to bring theory to practice. With over 400 students participating annually, Paul fosters an environment wherein students realize their potential to make a difference, while promoting institutional principles linking liberal education and democracy.
Paul earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1971, his M.A. from Antioch University in 1986, and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1991. Paul teaches classes in the fundamentals of interpersonal communication at a medium-security New York State prison. Founder of Bard's Community Garden, Paul also oversees a community garden with the Bard Prison Initiative at Woodbourne.
He is the author of a short essay in Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport (Blaustein, A., 2011).
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- Community College & Career Center Coordinator
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- Vice President for Civic Engagement Deputy Director, Bard CCE
Erin links the liberal arts with civic engagement through community partnerships, collaborative programming and development of opportunities that takes full advantage of Bard's vast network around the globe. As one of the founding staff members of Bard's Center for Civic Engagement (CCE), Erin has strengthened Bard's local, national and global partnerships by enhancing curricular and co-curricular programs for students, faculty and community partners. Since 2012, Erin has launched a variety of initiatives that has centered civic engagement into Bard's mission as a "private institution acting in the public interest". Projects link the liberal arts to careers, community engagement, network building and civics. Initiatives include launching the Engaged Liberal Arts and Science (ELAS), BardWorks, Science Community Outreach, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Engagement, the Community Action Internship Award, Election@Bard, the annual Get Engaged Student Conference and the 100 Days Initiative (now called The Dissonance).
Erin co-led Bard's successful application for the 2020 Carnegie Engagement Classification and co-teaches ELAS and network courses focused on civic engagement. She has been the academic director for the U.S. State Department's Study for the United States Institute (SUSI) since 2018. Erin co-leads the newly launched Open Society University Network (OSUN) Civic Engagement project which is integrating civic engagement throughout all 30 OSUN university partners with a focus on teaching, curricular development and co-curricular programming.
Erin joined the CCE staff after 15 years in the Division of Student Affairs at Bard where she served as Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs. Her background in student affairs motivates her to connect the liberal arts and sciences with civic engagement to promote student well-being, learning and skill-building. In 2020, she was promoted to Vice President for Civic Engagement.
Felicitas S. Thorne was born and raised in postwar Germany, came to the US in 1969, and became a citizen in 1981. She received her Abitur in 1962 and earned a Physical Therapist Diploma in 1966, working until 1969 in Munich, Germany. Since then, she has lived in Millbrook, New York. She is married and the mother of two grown children. Since 1996, Thorne has been getting to know Bard College and enriching her life by enjoying the Bard Music Festival, lectures, and events, always welcoming new friends at Bard. Her interests in education, music, and the performing arts have made Bard her second home. She believes in the power of a liberal education and the performing arts to create understanding, communication, and respect for diverse cultures, thereby promoting world peace. She is a member of the Bard Music Festival Board and of the advisory boards of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and the American Symphony Orchestra. She also serves on the board of the Cardinal Hayes Home for children in Millbrook.
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- Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Executive Officer at Kellner Capital
George A. Kellner is the founder, chief investment officer, and chief executive officer at Kellner Capital, LLC. He has vast investment experience. He founded Kellner Capital, LLC in 1981. Prior to this, he was a senior vice president and established the arbitrage department at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Before that, he was a vice president and house counsel at the Madison Fund, where he had broad responsibilities as a financial analyst and portfolio manager. He began his professional career as a securities lawyer at the Wall Street law firm of Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a former adjunct assistant professor of finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has a JD from Columbia Law School, an MBA from NYU, and a BA from Trinity College. He is also a trustee of Bard College.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President
- Awich '08, Vice President
Gerry Pambo-Awich '08 lives in New York where he is an Investment Officer at the Ford Foundation, supporting execution and management of the foundation's impact investment portfolio. Gerry was a computer science major at Bard and for his senior project he built an artificial intelligence powered investing program. Since graduation, Gerry has stayed connected to Bard through events such as the Bard Music Festival, the Bardians in Finance Affinity Group, and Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend. Gerry is also one of the lucky Bardians to have met their future spouse at Bard and in 2015 they were married on campus-the same year he joined the Board of Governors.
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- Dean of Collegiate Studies
- Dean of Studies Faculty in Literature
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- Co - Founder
- Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co
Harry A. Johnson Jr. '17 is a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co. He served previously as Co-Executive Director of Brothers@, a mentorship program focused on the retention and graduation of young men of color in high school and college. As the program's co-founder, Harry was instrumental in scaling the program's impact and increasing sustainability during its transition from a student-led initiative to an institutional commitment at Bard College. In 2020, he was recognized for his work in the Hudson Valley as Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce Forty under 40.
Prior to this, he was a Fellow with the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Harry was one of 40 college graduates in the US awarded $30,000 to conceive and execute an original independent international project. During this year, Harry explored how sports are used as a development tool to build the capacity of local community members and create sustainable pathways to leadership in local development initiatives.
Harry is a graduate of Bard College with a BA in Sociology. He serves on the board of advisors of Brothers@.
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- HAHN Program Manager
- Program Manager for the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
As program manager for the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network, Hillary works with OSUN institutions around the globe to implement and facilitate humanities programming across the network.
Prior to joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Hillary was Communications Specialist for Ulster County Executives Jen Metzger and (now-Congressman) Pat Ryan. She served on Ulster County's first Innovation Team, which built and managed the Ulster County COVID-19 hotline throughout the pandemic, and implemented goal-setting strategies across the 20+ governmental departments. Hillary earned her BA degree from Bennington College, and she is passionate about civic engagement.
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- Executive Director and CEO, Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Jim Frieldich was appointed executive director and CEO of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism in September 2016. He served previously as CEO of Empirical Media Advisors, a consulting firm focused on the digital transformation of major news organizations. Prior to that he was a founding partner in ZelnickMedia, a New York-based private equity partnership. Frieldich specializes in investments in digital media and professional information and business services. In 2001, he cofounded ZM Capital, a New York-based media investment firm. From 2001 to 2010, he led the firm's investment in publishing and information services. He was integrally involved in the acquisition and management of Time Life (direct-response media), Take-Two Interactive (video games), Alloy Media (television and digital media), and ITN Networks (broadcast television). He served as executive chairman of Naylor LLC, the leading business-to-business media services provider for trade associations throughout North America, a ZM Capital portfolio company. Frieldich was a seed investor in Business Insider, a digital business news publisher. He attended Dartmouth College, is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in English, and received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Dice Holdings (NYSE), WFMU (public radio), The Door and University Settlement (social services), and the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.
James Ketterer is Dean of of the School of Continuing Education at the American University in Cairo. He previously served as Dean of International Studies at Bard College and Academic Director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program - and he taught in Bard's Political Studies and Global and International Studies programs. Prior to that he served as Egypt Country Director for AMIDEAST. From 2007-2011 he was Vice Chancellor for Policy and Planning and Deputy Provost at the State University of New York (SUNY). At SUNY, he also was director of the Center for International Development and program officer at the Center for Legislative Development. In government, he served on the staff of the New York Commission on Higher Education, the National Security Council staff at the White House and as policy analyst at the New York State Senate. He worked on elections for the United Nations, the African-American Institute and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and has carried out consultancies for USAID in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He was a Boren Fellow in Morocco and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Tunisia. He is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, serves on the board of the Swedish Program at the Stockholm School of Economics, is on the organizing committee of the 2020 Transatlantic Dialogue at the University of Luxembourg and is a Senior Fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement. He was a board member for the World Affairs Council of the Hudson Valley and has given talks across the US for the American Committees on Foreign Relations.
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- Director of Academic Programs
As the Director of Academic Programs, Jana works on building the academic community and profile of the Hannah Arendt Center in collaboration with Bard students and faculty; she organizes curricular events such as the "Courage To Be" series and facilitates engagement with Arendt scholarship through programs like the reading group, the Journal, and academic conferences.
Jana Mader holds an M.A. in German and Anthropology and a PhD in Comparative Literature, both from the University of Munich. She has taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and The Juilliard School, and has been teaching at Bard since 2021. Her research interests include 19th-century literature, politics, and art; nation-building in the United States and Germany; Hudson Valley history, art, and literature; national narratives and nationalism; Hannah Arendt; 19th- and 20th-century poetry; Arendt and "poetic language."
As a scholar, writer, and translator, she works at the intersection of theory and practice. Her first novel, Wir alles, wir nichts, was published in 2018, and in 2020 she co-edited Denkräume. Von Orten und Ideen, an anthology on places and spaces of thinking published by Rowohlt Verlag. In 2023, Natur und Nation. Landschaft als Ausdruck nationaler Identität, a comparative analysis of 19th-century literature on the Hudson Valley and the Rhine Valley, was published by Königshausen & Neumann. Jana's essay on Arendt and the poet Friedrich Hölderlin appeared in the Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2020, and she is currently working on Arendt and W. H. Auden. More about her work can be found here: janamarlene.com
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- Dean of International Studies / Director, Institute for International Liberal Education and Bard Abroad
Jennifer received her BA in English from Rutgers University in 1991 and MS in Education from Baruch College, City University of New York, in 2001. In the early 1990s Jennifer taught English at the University of Pecs, Hungary; in the US she has worked on student exchange at private language institutes, disability services at Hunter College, and international student advising at School of Visual Arts. Jennifer joined the Institute of International Liberal Education (IILE) at Bard College in 2010 and is currently the Director. Her work focuses on increasing access to study abroad, promoting non-traditional destinations, and facilitating exchanges with students from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and East Jerusalem.
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- Faculty in Art / Student Support
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- Member of Hudson Valley Strong and of Re - Sisters
- Second Vice President of the Lifetime Learning Institute
- Vice President, Lifetime Learning Institute
Jill Lundquist is currently second vice president of the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College and has served on the LLI Council for the past three years. During that time she has been responsible for developing both a policy manual and an operations manual for the organization. She has also served on LLI's Long Range Planning Committee as well as its Planning and Evaluation Committee. She is currently chairing the Bylaws Committee that is completing a thorough review and revision of the organization's bylaws. Lundquist retired in 2011 from her position as director of admissions at Poughkeepsie Day School. Certified in education and social work, she has had a long career as an educator and administrator in educational and human services organizations. She previously served as director of the Mid-Hudson Family Mediation Center, was on the clinical staff of the Catskill Family Institute, and was director of community education for Ulster County Mental Health Services. She was a member of the Board of Education for the Red Hook Central School District, ran an enrichment program for children in the Red Hook schools, and, early in her career, worked in the grants office at Bard College.
Lundquist is also a member of Hudson Valley Strong and of Re-Sisters, a group of area women committed to political activism. She is an active volunteer for Sinterklaas, working year-round to plan and raise funds for this spectacular Hudson Valley community event. She is a longtime resident of Barrytown, where she lives with her husband, Doug Baz. They have three adult children and one granddaughter.
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- Executive Director and CEO of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Jim Ottaway Jr. is the former chairman of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., the community newspaper subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. After 43 years working in various positions, he also retired from the board of directors of Dow Jones in 2005. His career has included stints as a reporter, associate editor, bureau chief, statehouse correspondent, management trainee, editor, publisher, and, ultimately, chairman of the board. His board memberships have included: World Press Freedom Committee, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch USA, International Center for Journalists, World Wildlife Fund, Urban Coalition, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The Associated Press, Walkill Valley Land Trust, and the Archeological Institute of America. He is currently the chairman of the board of the Storm King Art Center. Ottaway is a life trustee of Bard College and chairman of the board of advisers of the Bard Center for Civic Engagement. In 2017, he received the Bard Medal, the highest award given by the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association, which honors individuals whose efforts on behalf of Bard have significantly advanced the welfare of the College. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, where he was the editor of the Yale Daily News.
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- Social Media Manager, Bard CCE, OSUN
Jim joined the Center for Civic Engagement and the Open Society University Network communications teams in 2023, after 12 years as Bard's Director of Athletic Communications & Marketing.
Before coming to Bard, he was an award-winning journalist for 22 years, working at newspapers in Connecticut and New York.
Jim lives in Red Hook with his wife, Kelly. They have two sons, Tyler and Tucker.
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- President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics
- President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Joel H. Rosenthal has served as president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs since 1995. He is also adjunct professor, New York University and chairman of the Bard College Globalization and International Affairs program in New York City. As a scholar and teacher, Rosenthal has focused on ethics in US foreign policy, with special emphasis on issues of war and peace, human rights, and pluralism. His first book, Righteous Realists (1991), is a study of American realists. His edited volume Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader is a compilation of essays from major figures in the field and is widely used in college and university courses. Throughout his career, Rosenthal has worked with partners in professional military education, most notably, the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval War College, and U.S. Military Academy, West Point. In addition to his ongoing teaching duties, he lectures frequently at universities and public venues across the United States and around the world. Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from Yale University and a BA from Harvard University.
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- Director of the Center for Civic Engagement
- Ex Officio
- Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director, Bard CCE
- Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director, Center for Civic Engagement
Jonathan Becker is the director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bard. As director of CCE, Jonathan has general oversight of the center's activities and coordinates programming among the center affiliates and the Bard's national and international networks. He is also an associate professor of political studies specializing in Russian and eastern European politics, media and politics, and education reform.
Dr. Becker earned his B.A. from McGill University in 1987 and his DPhil. from St. Antony's College, Oxford in 1993. He is the author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999; revised and expanded edition, 2002), guest editor of a special issue of Education Studies/Voprosy obrazovania on Liberal Arts and Science Education (2015), co-editor of Svobodniye Iskusstva i Nauki na Sovremennom Etape: Opyt SShA i Evropy v Kontekste Rossiiskogo Obrazovaniya (2014), and author of chapters and articles in a variety of books and publications, including Voprosy Obarzovaniya, European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, and Demokratiizatsiya.
Prior to coming to Bard in 1997, he served as assistant vice president of the Central European University in Budapest and as the European director of the Civic Education Project.
Jonathan Becker is the director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, where he also serves as vice president for academic affairs, associate professor of political studies, and director, Globalization and International Studies. He is the author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999, 2002) and articles and chapters in a variety of publications, including the European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, and the Globalist, among others. Previously, he served as assistant vice president of the Central European University in Budapest and the European director of the Civic Education Project. He has also served as cochair of the Higher Education Group of the US/Russian Civil Society Partnership Program and as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council on its Global Trends 2020 project. Becker earned his BA from McGill University and his D.Phil. from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College
Juris Pupcenoks is an assistant professor of political science at Marist College, NY. A specialist in international relations and comparative politics, Juris completed a B.A. degree at Westminster College (MO), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Delaware. He previously taught at the University of Delaware and Washington College (MD). He has conducted field research in Muslim communities in the United Kingdom, Italy and the US, and published in journals including International Interactions, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Middle East Journal, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. His monograph Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad was published by Routledge in 2016. Broadly, his research focuses on understanding how different groups (be it diasporas, Americans or Europeans) mobilize politically and react to conflicts abroad. More specific research interests include diasporic and ethnic politics, humanitarian intervention, international security, causes of political violence, politics of Muslims and minorities in the West, and transatlantic relations. He is fluent in Latvian (native) and Russian, intermediate in French, and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese. His hobbies include traveling, running and tennis.
Nicholas Dunn (PhD, McGill University, 2020) is the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where he will also teach courses in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Studies and for the Bard Prison Initiative. His primary research is on Immanuel Kant, with a focus on metaphysics of mind, ethics, and aesthetics.
He also works in contemporary political theory, with an emphasis on Hannah Arendt and issues related to pluralism, democracy, and disagreement. The central theme of his work is the faculty of judgment: its nature as a mental activity and its practical potential. His current work deals with the role of feeling, imagination, and the Other in cultivating one's judgment. To learn more, visit http://nicholasdunn.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary
- Professor
Kristin Waters is professor emerita at Worcester State University and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She is author of Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations and coeditor of Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, which received the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.
Kyaw Moe Tun completed his undergraduate education at Bard College at Simon's Rock and Oxford University, and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Yale University. The transformative liberal arts and sciences education that he received abroad challenged him to find deeper meaning behind his actions. This notion has informed much of his ensuing work. He came back to Myanmar in 2014 to dedicate his life to the development of his native country. As a young social entrepreneur dedicated to creating the next generation of responsible and competent leaders for Myanmar, he believes that empowering youth is the most rewarding investment that a country can make to safeguard its sustainable future. He believes that a liberal arts and sciences education has the power to develop the types of innovative, adaptable leaders needed to address fast-changing sociopolitical trends and industrial disruptions seen worldwide. With this mission in mind, Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun established a well-regarded school known as Parami Institute in early 2017, in collaboration with Bard College. The Institute has been providing high quality and innovative liberal arts and sciences education programs to young Myanmar college graduates who want to take on challenges facing Myanmar. He raised millions of dollars from local and international philanthropists to transform the institute into a private nonprofit, residential, degree-granting university that would create next-generation leaders for Myanmar. This plan was curtailed by the military coup on February 1, 2021. In order to ensure Burmese students have access to civically-engaged educational opportunities, he assumed the role of a senior research fellow at CCE, Bard College in 2021. In that capacity, he quickly pivoted to incorporate Parami University as a private non-profit online synchronous university licensed by the Higher Education Licensure Commission, Washington D.C., to begin offering Associate and Bachelor degree programs (dual-degree programs with Bard College) in the fall of 2022 to students in Myanmar and other areas under authoritarian control.
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- Trustee Leader Scholar Administrative Coordinator
Originally from a small yet powerful community on Whidbey Island, in Washington state, Lucy has had an eclectic career with connecting at the core. After graduating from Lesley University with a BA in Photography she worked in galleries in Europe and New York City before finding a calling in the beverage industry. As a wine professional Lucy focused on education and community through tasting, traveling and shedding light on the whole process of food and wine production. After moving to the Hudson Valley she began working with farms and learning holistic farming practices as an orchardist. She is passionate about helping people connect personal ambitions with community goals to benefit all. As the Administrative Coordinator for the Trustee Leader Scholar program, she provides support to students becoming leaders in their communities.
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- Art Education, Case Western Reserve University MFA in Painting, Ohio University BFA in Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art
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- Communications Committee Chair
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
- Director of the Mayor 's Office of Appointments for New York City
Mollie Meikle '03 lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she works for the City of New York. Mollie is the Director of the Mayor's Office of Appointments for New York City. Mollie was a literature major and her senior project was a collection of short stories. A Bard booster for life, she has attended almost every Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend and Holiday Party since graduating. Mollie first joined the Board of Governors in 2008, and as a volunteer for the college has spearheaded fundraising, organized events, and has lead her Reunion Committee for the 5th, 10th, 15th, and now 20th reunion.
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- Co - Director and Director of Programs of the Centre for Human Rights
- Full Professor ( Professional ), Faculty of Law, McGill University Co - Director & Program Director, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Professor Nandini Ramanujam is the Co-Director and Director of Programs of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University's Faculty of Law. She also directs the International Human Rights Internship Program as well as Independent Human Rights Internships Program. She is the McGill representative for the Scholars at Risk Network and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Scholars at Risk Network, Canada section..
Nandini Ramanujam's research and teaching interests include Law and Development, Institutions and Governance, Economic Justice, Food Security and Food Safety, the role of civil society and the Fourth Estate (Media) in promotion of the rule of law, as well as the exploration of interconnections between field based human rights work and theoretical discourses.
She was appointed Associate Professor (Professional) in the Faculty of Law in April 2014, and then appointed to the rank of Full Professor (Professional) in June 2020. She was named co-director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism in 2021.
Before joining McGill's Faculty of Law, Dr Ramanujam was involved in the successful systemic reform of higher education in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, including Aga Khan's Central Asian University and Smolny College in St. Petersburg. She has sat as Director of the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest and Regional Director of Baltic and Eurasian Programs of Civic Education Project. She also has extensive experience in human rights issues, strategic planning, governance and programming, with a particular focus on education and civil society. She has been involved in the development of strategic planning for human rights institutions such as the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights and the Open Society Institute's Disability and Law Network. She served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (Equitas) from 2001-2008, and was President of Board between 2003-2008. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Centraide of Greater Montreal.
Nandini Ramanujam received her Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University for her dissertation on Price Mechanism in Russia: Its role in the Old Planning and the New Markets. She holds a M.Phil and a M.A. in Economics with 1st class honours from Bhopal University.
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- Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator
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- Managing Director and Co - Founder of UCL Asia Limited
- Managing Director and Cofounder, UCL Asia Limited
Peter James O'Donnell ("Jamie") is a Managing Director and co-founder of UCL Asia Limited, an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. Mr. O'Donnell also is a co-founder and Director of the Genomic Trust Pte. Ltd., which addresses critical issues of personal privacy, data management, and advances in health that are driven by developments in genomics. Prior to cofounding UCL Asia in 1999, O'Donnell was a director at General Oriental Investments Limited, the industrial holding company of the late Sir James Goldsmith. He has also worked with EXOR SpA, advising that company on investment opportunities both in Asia and around the world. In this capacity he served as EXOR's representative to the Board of JRE (i.e., Jardine-Rothschild-EXOR) Holdings Limited. He also currently serves as vice chairman and board member of Singer Asia Limited, the leading consumer durables and consumer finance provider in several countries in Southeast and South Asia.
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- Democracy Innovations & Communications
Philip leads the Democracy Innovation Hub where he runs workshops for public servants and educators. He supervises a team of Democracy and Media fellows and coordinates HAC communications and outreach.
Before joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Philip helped run a small community health center in NYC. He has a BA in Latin American Studies from Temple University, and a certificate in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He spent a year in Germany as a Congress-Bundestag (CBYX) Fellow focusing on the politics of climate change. In his free time, he enjoys organizing intimate concerts and building community through the arts.
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- Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College / Director of Open Society University Network 's Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives ( Hubs )
Rebecca Granato is Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College, the Director of the Open Society University Network's Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives (Hubs), and the co-chair of the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways. She is also an Associate of Bard College's Institute for Writing & Thinking, delivering teacher professional development in places as far reaching as Myanmar, Jordan and Kyrgyzstan. Past research has focused on the evolution of educational systems and alternative political structures inside Israeli political prisons for Palestinians in the 1970s and
1980s. She is currently working on a project that examines the tangible and intangible impacts of refugees who finish higher education on their host countries. She also works practically in the field of Higher Education in Emergencies on educational design for refugee and displaced students, teachers and researchers. Following undergraduate and graduate studies at Bard College, Exeter College, Oxford, and CUNY, she received her PhD in Global History from the intercampus program based at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.
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- Founder
- Founder & Academic Director / Founder and Academic
Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, where he writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition (2021).
Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. His essay "Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt's Politics," has helped bring attention to the centrality of reconciliation in Hannah Arendt's work. The Arendt Center organizes an annual conference every October. Professor Berkowitz edits the Hannah Arendt Center's weekly newsletter, Amor Mundi. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Interest, and many other publications. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany. (Photo Credit: Doug Menuez)
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- Outreach Coordinator / Special Events Administrator
Sarah coordinates engagement opportunities both on and off-campus for students who are interested in community service, activism, voter rights, and science outreach. She is also one of Bard's Transportation Coordinators, to help students get to those off-campus opportunities and academic fields for the Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences classes. Before joining the CCE staff, Sarah earned her Bachelor's degree through Bard's Film Production and Electronic Arts department, specifically focusing in documentary and community connections.
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- Guidance Counselor
- Guidance Counselor / Shannon
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- College Transfer Office Coordinator
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- VP for Special Global Initiatives, Bard College & Founding Director, IILE
Susan H. Gillespie has worked at Bard since 1985, following positions at the New York Public Library and the New York Zoological Society. Before the Institute was created in 1998, she served as Bard's vice president for development and public affairs, in which capacity she honed a useful skill in raising funds. She is an ex-officio member of the board of overseers of Smolny College and serves as a member of the board of advisers of Words without Borders. She studied and lived in Germany for six and a half years; this formative experience led her to international education as well as to an active career as a translator from German to English. Her published translations include philosophy (Theodor W. Adorno and others), musicology, fiction, poetry, and correspondence. Translation, dialogue, and reciprocity have become the watchwords of her professional career and have inspired a recent interest in the neuroscientific basis of translation and education. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College of Harvard University.
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- Communications Manager, Open Society University Network
× Terry Roethlein Communications Manager, Open Society University Network, Bard troethlein@bard.edu l 845 758 0261 BA from the University of Connecticut and MPA from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Serves as Communications Manager at OSUN, where he coordinates website, social media, and e-mail marketing along with marketing materials and strategic communications. Also served as Communications Manager at the Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Center for the Study of Social Difference/Institute for Research on Women,Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Has also volunteered media skills for ACT UP and Reclaim Pride Coalition.
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- Research Director
- Professor of German Studies
Wild is Professor of German Studies and Literature, and works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he's particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism.
Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt's life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt's intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild's ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt's Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German - a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.
× Wailly Compres Brothers@ Consortium Manager wcompres@bard.edu Born and raised in Moca, Dominican Republic, Wailly Comprés '18 is the current Consortium Manager for Brothers@, a dual-beneficiary high-school retention and college persistence organization with the mission of improving the academic and social-emotional outcomes of YMOC in both secondary and post-secondary education. A Kingston resident, Wailly is completing a MPS in Social Justice Education at SUNY New Paltz. As a facilitator and student advisor, Wailly seeks to center student's passions, feelings and worries as he believes this opens his students' inner voices; their inner voice informs their goals and helps them articulate challenging experiences. His advising attempts to demystify what students have learned about academia (its abstraction and exclusivity) to begin making space for themselves and others in it. Wailly currently oversees the development of Brothers@ growing network of colleges and universities that seek to elevate the voices of Young Men of Color by attending to their needs. In his leisure time, Wailly might be hanging out with his partner and dog, cooking, camping, hiking, dancing or gaming with friends.