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Bard College Catalogue 2024–25
Boards of Bard College
Bard College Board of Trustees
James C. Chambers ’81, ChairEmily H. Fisher, Vice Chair
Brandon Weber ’97, Vice Chair
Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee
Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer; Life Trustee
Fiona Angelini
Roland J. Augustine
Leonard Benardo
Leon Botstein, President of the College, ex officio
Mark E. Brossman
Jinqing Cai
Marcelle Clements ’69, Life Trustee
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Honorary Trustee
Asher B. Edelman ’61, Life Trustee
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Alumni/ae Trustee
Andrew S. Gundlach
Matina S. Horner, ex officio
Charles S. Johnson III ’70
Mark N. Kaplan, Life Trustee
George A. Kellner
Mark Malloch-Brown
Fredric S. Maxik ’86
Jo Frances Meyer, ex officio
Juliet Morrison ’03
James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee
Hilary Pennington
Martin Peretz, Life Trustee
Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee
David E. Schwab II ’52, Life Trustee
Roger N. Scotland ’93, Alumni/ae Trustee
Annabelle Selldorf
Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97
Jonathan Slone ’84
Geoffrey W. Smith
Alexander Soros
James A. von Klemperer
Susan Weber
Patricia Ross Weis ’52
Bard College Alumni/ae Association
Board of Governors
Mollie Meikle ’03, PresidentGerald Pambo-Awich ’08, Vice President
Kristin Waters ’73, Secretary
Beth Shaw Adelman ’74
Hannah Becker ’11, Young Alumnx Committee Cochair
Jack Blum ’62
Connor Boehme ’17
Michael Burgevin ’10
Hannah Byrnes-Enoch ’08, Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Matthew Cameron ’04
Kathleya Chotiros ’98, Development Committee Cochair
Charles Clancy III ’69
Tyrone Santana Copeland ’01
Peter Criswell ’89
Caia Diepenbrock ’15
Greg Drilling ’16
Nicolai Eddy ’14
Sarah Elia ’06
Nolan English ’13, Young Alumnx Committee Cochair
Randy Faerber ’73, Events Committee Cochair
Tamar Faggen ’23
Andrew F. Fowler ’95
Richard Frank ’74
Eric Goldman ’98
Hasani Gunn ’18
Alexander Habiby ’18
Boriana Handjiyska ’02, Career Connections Committee Cochair
Nikkya Hargrove ’05
Sonja Hood ’90, Nominations Committee Cochair
Maud Kersnowski-Sachs ’86
Kenneth Kosakoff ’81
Jacob Lester ’20
Darren Mack ’13
Peter F. McCabe ’70
Emily Melendes TŌN ’20
Ryan Mesina ’06, Nominations Committee Cochair
Anne Morris-Stockton ’68
Anna Neverova ’07, Career Connections Committee Cochair
Karen G. Olah ’65
KC Serota ’04, Development Committee Cochair
Genya Shimkin ’08, Diversity Committee Chair
George A. Smith ’82, Events Committee Cochair
Thoko Soko ’20
Geoffrey Stein ’82
Paul Thompson ’93
Max Toth ’22, Events Committee Cochair
Brandon Weber ’97
Ato Williams ’12
Emeritus/a
Robert Amsterdam ’53
Claire Angelozzi ’74
Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63
Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56
Cathaline Cantalupo ’67
Arnold Davis ’44
Michael DeWitt ’65
Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95
Robert Edmonds ’68
Naomi Bellison Feldman ’53
Barbara Grossman Flanagan ’60
Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68
Richard Gerber ’71
R. Michael Glass ’75
Dr. Ann Ho ’62
Charles Hollander ’65
Maggie Hopp ’67
Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65
William Lowe ’66
Steven Miller ’70
David E. Schwab II ’52
Roger N. Scotland ’93
Mackie Siebens ’12
Walter Swett ’96
Olivier te Boekhorst ’93
Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69
Paul Weinstein ’73
John Weisman ’64
Barbara Crane Wigren ’68
Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University
Board of Governors
Jens Reich, Honorary ChairKimberly Marteau Emerson, Chair
Christine Wallich, First Vice Chair
Susan Gillespie, Second Vice Chair
Florian Becker, ex officio
Leon Botstein, ex officio
Ronald A. Crutcher
Monika Grütters
Josef Joffe
Ben Koerner
Alexander Papachristou
Ken Roth
Jacques Séguin
Michael Steinberg
Catherine Toal, ex officio
Taun Toay ’05, ex officio
Marylea van Daalen
Academic Advisory Board
Leon Botstein, Chair
Jonathan Becker
Deirdre d’Albertis
Gregory B. Moynahan
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Advisory Board
Belinda Kaye, ChairGonzalo de Las Heras
Gregory Drilling ’16
Alan D. Hilliker
Susan B. Hirschhorn
Stephen Kaye
Y. S. Liu
Solange Merdinian VAP ’09
Eric Wong
Bard College at Simons Rock: The Early College
Board of Overseers
James M. Clark Jr. ’76, ChairChloe Demrovsky ’01, Vice Chair
Matt Strassler ’81, Second Vice Chair
Susan Beckerman, Secretary
John Thompson ’76, Financial Liaison
Emily H. Fisher, Chair Emerita
Robert B. Strassler, Chair Emeritus
Sameer Agrawal ’00
Loren AliKhan ’99
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, ex officio
Christopher Derhammer Hill ’86
Jennifer Fan ’99
Rufus Jones
Dan Lipson ’74
Allyson Sgro ’01
Scott Shenker
Brianna Strange ’06
Taun Toay ’05, Senior Vice President; Chief Financial Officer, Bard College, ex officio
John B. Weinstein, Provost and Vice President, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, ex officio
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program
Alumni/ae Advisory Board
Megan Naidoo ’13, BGIA Spring ’11, PresidentRachel Van Horn ’12, BGIA Fall ’11, Vice President
Amanda Maria-Elena Turcios, BGIA Summer ’19, Secretary
Ruth Tekleab, BGIA Summer ’18, Community Chair
Connor Boehme ’17, BGIA Spring ’16
Peter DeBartolo ’07, BGIA Fall ’04, Spring ’05
Cliff Hunt, BGIA Summer ’11
Fiona Korwin-Pawlowski, BGIA Spring ’05
Rachel Meyer ’06, BGIA Spring ’04
Diana Pitcher ’12, BGIA Spring ’11
Simone Salvo ’13, Spring ’12
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Board of Trustees
Michele Beiny-HarkinsBrandy S. Culp, BGC MA ’04
Hélène David-Weill
Nancy Druckman
Helen W. Drutt English
Carol Grossman
Ana Horta Osório
Holly Hotchner
Fernanda Kellogg
Dr. Wolfram Koeppe
Dr. Arnold L. Lehman
Martin Levy
David Mann
Dr. Caryl McFarlane
Dr. Steven Nelson
Jennifer Olshin, BGC MA ’98
Melinda Florian Papp
Lisa Podos
Ann Pyne, BGC MA ’07
Linda Roth
Sir Paul Ruddock
Emma Scully, BGC MA ‘14
Gregory Soros
Luke Syson
Dr. Charlotte Vignon
Shelby White
Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.
Philip L. Yang, Jr.
Ex-officio:
Leon Botstein
Christian Ayne Crouch
Susan Weber
Bard Music Festival
Board of Directors
Denise S. Simon, Chair
Roger Alcaly
Leon Botstein, ex officio
Michelle R. Clayman
David Dubin
Robert C. Edmonds ’68
Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Emerita
Dr. Sanford J. Friedman
Christopher H. Gibbs, ex officio
Thomas Hesse
Susan Petersen Kennedy
Barbara Kenner
Gary Lachmund
Vivien Liu
Thomas O. Maggs
Kenneth L. Miron
James H. Ottaway Jr.
Felicitas S. Thorne
Center for Civic Engagement
Board of Advisors
James H. Ottaway Jr., ChairDavid Becker
Jonathan Becker, ex officio
Christina Dawson
James Friedlich
Susan H. Gillespie
Ariana Gonzalez Stokas ’00
Harry A. Johnson Jr. ’17
George A. Kellner
Jill Lundquist
Jeff Lynford
Tondra Lynford
Vincent McGee
Ngoni Munemo ’00
Jamie O’Donnell
Nandini Ramanujam
Joel Rosenthal
Felicitas S. Thorne
Center for Curatorial Studies
Board of Governors
Martin Eisenberg, ChairmanLeon Botstein, ex officio
Amy Cappellazzo
Lori Chemla
John Garcia
Marieluise Hessel, Founding Chairman
Avery Willis Hoffman
Maja Hoffmann
Audrey Irmas, Emeritus
Scott Lorinsky
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Annabelle Selldorf
Lowery Stokes Sims
Melissa Schiff Soros
Michael Ward Stout
Fisher Center Advisory Board
Jeanne Donovan Fisher, ChairCarolyn Marks Blackwood
Leon Botstein, ex officio
Stefano Ferrari
Alan Fishman
Neil Gaiman
Nina Matis
Rebecca Gold Milikowsky
Anthony Napoli
Denise S. Simon
Martin T. Sosnoff
Toni Sosnoff
Felicitas S. Thorne, Emerita
Taun Toay ’05, ex officio
Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
Board of Directors
Christopher Scholz, PresidentMarianne Wurlitzer, Vice President
Leslie Gershon, Secretary
William Holman, Treasurer
Vern Bergelin
Véronique Firkusny
Christopher H. Gibbs
Susan Hinkle Lindner
Jaime Laredo, Artistic Director
Sharon Robinson, Artistic Director
Joan Tower, Advisory Director
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Board of Governors
Eric Breon, ChairmanLeon Botstein, President, Bard College
James K. Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Economics Institute; Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, Bard College
Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics, Bard College; Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
L. Randall Wray, Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Board of Governors
Jo Frances Meyer, ChairGarth H. Greimann, Vice Chair
Dwight Quayle, Secretary
Roland J. Augustine
Sandra Bakalar
William C. Banfield
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, ex officio
Wayman Chin
Gene D. Dahmen
Harriet E. Griesinger
Michael Guleserian
Matina Horner
Virginia Meany
Donald W. Schroeder
Deborah Smith
Robert B. Straus
Jeannette H. Taylor
Taun Toay ’05, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Bard College, ex officio
Ann Welch, Chief Operating Officer, Longy School of Music of Bard College, ex officio
Karen Zorn, President, Longy School of Music of Bard College; Vice President, Bard College, ex officio
US-China Music Institute
Artistic Council
Chen YiHan Mei
Marianne Jacobsen
Tian Hao Jiang
Robert Martin
Wu Man
Ye Xiaogang
Yu Long
Zhang Xian
Zhou Long