Division of Social Studies News by Date
March 2017
03-08-2017
Senior economics major John Henry Glascock is a captain of the men’s lacrosse team at Bard, maintains a 3.88 GPA, and has played a major role in the success of his team as the starting goalie for the past four years. Last summer he interned at Swiss financial firm UBS in Manhattan. At the end of the internship, he was offered a job after graduation, which he accepted. Glascock is a strong candidate for the Academic All-American Award in lacrosse, which would make him only the second student athlete in Bard history to receive the honor.
03-06-2017
"For the first time in 70 years, the American people have elected a president who disparages the policies, ideas, and institutions at the heart of postwar U.S. foreign policy."
03-03-2017
Mark Danner examines how President Trump is shattering norms and transforming the role of the presidency.
February 2017
02-25-2017
Omar Encarnación, director of Bard's Political Studies Program, discusses Donald Trump through the lens of the Latin American phenomenon of the caudillo, or populist strongman.
02-19-2017
"[I]t is ...the demand that people be treated as rights-bearers rather than remaining invisible or as victims or recipients of charity, that makes all the difference."
02-16-2017
Professor of Political Studies Omar Encarnación examines the future of Obama's gay rights legacy under the Trump administration.
02-09-2017
Historian and Rachel Carson biographer Mark Lytle is a significant voice in a new documentary on the famous conservationist and author of the highly influential book Silent Spring.
02-05-2017
Professor Armstead talks about the significant African American presence in the Hudson Valley, beginning with the colonial period, through the Civil War, and to the post–World War II era.
January 2017
01-27-2017
In this interview with NPR's Robert Siegel, Ian Buruma, professor of human rights and journalism, talks about how the institutions of liberal democracy in the West seem to be unraveling.
01-26-2017
Bard alumnus Duane Linklater's show at NYU's 80WSE gallery engages with questions about the under- and misrepresentation of indigenous artists in galleries and museums.
01-23-2017
Bard professor and Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz explains why Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism has surged in popularity after the presidential election.
01-18-2017
Richard Aldous weighs in on why Hillary Clinton lost the election and how Donald Trump resembles Andrew Jackson.
01-06-2017
Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on pilotless aircraft, is set to open at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on May 10.