Senior Project Support

Senior Project Funding Request

Stuart Stritzler-Levine Seniors to Seniors Grants
Provided by the Lifetime Learning Institute (a constituency of senior citizens who reside in our local community and organize a campus program of continuing education), these are grants of up to $750 to support senior project work that might not otherwise be feasible or would necessarily be truncated because of financial constraints. Students in all fields are eligible to apply. Recipients are expected to make presentations to the Lifetime Learning Institute members in the spring semester.  

Lytle Family Fund
Up to $500 for students seeking support for research and related work on senior projects in areas concerned with American and Indigenous Studies or Environmental and Urban Studies. Students in all fields are eligible to apply.

Bick Jewish Studies Fund
In 1985, Professor Mario Bick established an endowed fund to support student research in Jewish studies. This fund, The Drs. Taula Siemiatycka Bick and Alexander Bick Fund, makes grants of up to $1200 available each year to assist students with research and scholarly development pertaining to Jewish studies (i.e., transportation, food, and lodging costs related to travel to archives, libraries, museums, or conferences; language study; supplies and materials such as film, tapes, books, photocopies, etc.). Students in all fields are eligible to apply. (Applications should describe any relevant coursework in Jewish Studies.) 

Human Rights Grants
The Human Rights Project can support students who are writing senior projects on human rights. Funding can be used for domestic travel within the US (for instance to do on-site research, conduct ethnography, or to visit libraries and archives), or for procurement of resources not available through the Bard Library system. Students in all fields are eligible to apply.

Center for the Study of Hate
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate has established a fund to support Senior Project research that examines human hatred and its manifestations. By hatred we refer to the “working definition” of hate studies: “the human capacity to define, and then dehumanize or demonize, an ‘other,’ and the processes that inform and give expression to, or can curtail, control, or combat, that capacity.” Hatreds can be visceral (such as white supremacy, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other ideologies and theologies that target groups for violence or discrimination), or normative (such as historical analyses of hatreds that were viewed by many at the time as just how things were, like slavery before the Civil War, or the tolerance until recently of racist sports team mascots). Students in all fields are eligible to apply.