Bard Prison Initiative Announces the Justus Rosenberg Chair for the Study of the Thought and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) announced the establishment of the Justus Rosenberg Chair for the Study of the Thought and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. This rotating faculty position will make inquiry into King’s thought, influence, and intellectual milieu a central curricular feature of BPI. Its establishment honors the importance of studying King not only as an extraordinary doer, galvanizing orator, or transformative political agitator, but as a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the American tradition. The chair is named for the late Bard professor Justus Rosenberg, who taught the first-ever BPI course over two decades ago. A distinguished antifascist who escaped Nazi extermination as a teenager and fled to join the French Resistance, Rosenberg began teaching literature and many languages at Bard in 1962, where he served on the faculty until 2020. The chair was made possible by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation.

Further Reading:

• The Life of Justus Rosenberg Is Remembered in the New York Times and Other Publications Around the World

Post Date: 01-23-2024