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Anthropology
Christopher Lindner, director of the Bard Archaeology Field School and Bard archaeologist in residence, works with students at an excavation site on campus. Photo by Sarah Wallock ’19

Anthropology

J. Andrew Bush
Michèle D. Dominy
Jeffrey Jurgens
Sucharita Kanjilal
Laura Kunreuther
Christopher Lindner
John Ryle
Maria Sonevytsky
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Yuka Suzuki
Economics
Pavlina Tcherneva, associate professor economics. Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00

Economics

Youssef Ait Benasser
Sanjaya DeSilva
Kris Feder
Michael Martell
Aniruddha Mitra
Kyle Mohr
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Pavlina Tcherneva
Oleksandr Valchyshen
Economics and Finance
Jerome Levy Professor of Economics Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. Photo by Noah Sheldon

Economics and Finance

Sanjaya DeSilva
Kris Feder
Michael Martell
Aniruddha Mitra
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Pavlina Tcherneva
Oleksandr Valchyshen
Historical Studies
Myra Young Armstead, Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, dedicates new campus signage designed to encourage critical reflection on Bard's history.

Historical Studies

Richard Aldous
Victor Apryshchenko
Nathanael Aschenbrenner
Leon Botstein
Christian Ayne Crouch
Robert J. Culp
Ibrahim Elhoudaiby
Jeannette Estruth
Tabetha Ewing
Valentina Grasso
Lloyd Hazvineyi
Cecile E. Kuznitz
Sean McMeekin
Gregory B. Moynahan
Joel Perlmann
Miles Rodriguez
Drew Thompson
Wendy Urban-Mead
Philosophy
Roger Berkowitz, associate professor of political studies and human rights. Photo by Scott Barrow

Philosophy

Thomas Bartscherer
Roger Berkowitz
Daniel Berthold
Nicholas Dunn
Jay Elliott
Garry L. Hagberg
Seth Halvorson
Yarran Hominh
David Shein
Kathryn Tabb
Robert Tully
Politics
Omar G. Encarnación, Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics. Photo by Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00

Politics

Sanjib Baruah
Jonathan Becker
Roger Berkowitz
Nicholas Dunn
Omar G. Encarnación
Simon Gilhooley
Mie Inouye
Pınar Kemerli
Christopher McIntosh
Walter Russell Mead
Michelle Murray
Lucas G. Pinheiro
Interdisciplinary Study of Religions
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology. Photo by Karl Rabe

Interdisciplinary Study of Religions

Karen Barkey
Bevin Blaber
Bruce Chilton
Richard H. Davis
Claire-Marie Hefner
Nabanjan Maitra
Samuel (Shai) Secunda
Dominique Townsend
Sociology
Photo by Eliza Watson ’21

Sociology

Karen Barkey
Yuval Elmelech
Peter Klein
Allison McKim
Joel Perlmann
Jussara dos Santos Raxlen
Jomaira Salas Pujols
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