Division of Social Studies News by Date
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November 2017
11-29-2017
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Levy Institute research professor and distinguished fellow of the Bard Prison Initiative, received the Lee Benson Activist Scholar Award from the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania. The award recognizes an outstanding scholar whose academic work and career have effectively integrated scholarship and social change. Professor Lagemann was honored at the Netter Center's 25th anniversary conference, "Higher Education: Community Partnerships for Democracy and Social Change," which took place November 16–17.
11-23-2017
Mendelsohn weaves Homer's epic with episodes from his own life in a book of "shimmering, beautiful, dapple-skilled intelligence" about his relationship with his father.
11-22-2017
"The most trenchant criticism of President Trump’s foreign policy is that it risks forfeiting America’s hard-won position of global leadership," writes Professor Mead.
11-20-2017
Eva-Marie Quinones, now a doctoral student at Yale, discusses the Unity March for Puerto Rico in her role as head of national youth engagement. Interview by Stephanie Presch '15.
11-16-2017
Professor Richard Aldous, author of a new biography of Arthur Schlesinger, looks at the historian's "vital center" in relation to liberal democracy and global affairs.
11-14-2017
Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's Odyssey and Professor Daniel Mendelsohn's memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic give the classic fresh relevance.
11-09-2017
Bard College Experimental Humanities Digital Projects Coordinator Gretta Tritch Roman will receive the Dutchess County Historical Society’s (DCHS) Dutchess Award at the group’s annual awards dinner this month. Roman was lauded for her "exceptional, highly innovative contributions to her students and to the broader community in the areas of preservation, history, and education," according to the award citation. Roman coordinates the Bard College Experimental Humanities Digital History Lab (DHL), an innovative humanities laboratory focused on the production of local history projects between Bard College faculty and students and the community of citizens, public servants, historical societies, and libraries dedicated to local history in the Hudson Valley.
11-06-2017
Mendelsohn, who earned a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton in 1994, will receive the James Madison Medal during Alumni Day activities on February 24.
11-04-2017
Bard seniors Mya Gelber and Kevin Barbosa represented the College at this year's Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, held November 1-4. The three-day conference focused on "The Politics of the Forgotten and the Aggrieved: Remaking the World Order?" SCUSA attracts students from colleges and military academies across the country and has students participate in intensive roundtable sessions on specific national security issues as well as plenary sessions led by prominent military and civilian officials. Bard's participation in this conference is part of the overall Bard–West Point Initiative and is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
11-02-2017
Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason examines how the classicist Emily Wilson has given Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice.
11-02-2017
In Professor Richard Aldous’s biography, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, he chronicles the life of a public intellectual instrumental in crafting John F. Kennedy’s legacy.
11-01-2017
The Spanish region’s leaders believe punishment can be a path to redemption—as long as they’re not the ones who suffer, writes Professor Encarnación.
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