Dariel Vasquez ’17 has been appointed Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Initiatives at Bard College. Photo by Jordan Hiraldo

Bard College Names Dariel Vasquez ’17 Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Initiatives

Bard College is pleased to announce that Dariel Vasquez ’17 has been appointed Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Initiatives, a newly created position at Bard. In this role at the College, Vasquez will help to usher in a new wave of transformational change and collaboration with other collegiate institutions across the country. While his main focus will remain on leading Brothers@, he will also expand the College’s reach through partnerships and initiatives, including facilitating a center between Bard College and Howard University. 

Wilma Theater’s Co-Artistic Director and Bard alumna Morgan Green ’12. Photo by Johanna Austin

Led by Co-Artistic Director Bard Alumna Morgan Green ’12, Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater Wins 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award

The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is led by three co-artistic directors including Bard Theater and Performance alumna Morgan Green ’12, will receive the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award. This honor recognizes a regional theater company that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement contributing to the growth of theater nationally and is accompanied by a grant of $25,000.

Clockwise from top left: 2024 Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellows at Bard College Kay Bell, Theresa Lin, Vivian Rivas, Gwendolyn Shaw, and Dessie Zagorcheva.

The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College Welcomes Five Writers for Its 2024 Summer Residency Program

The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College, now in its third year, welcomes its cohort of five writers, Kay Bell, Theresa Lin, Vivian Rivas, Gwendolyn Shaw, and Dessie Zagorcheva. The Hurston Fellows are in residence for three weeks from June 2–22. Founded and directed by Visiting Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies Donna Ford Grover, the Hurston Fellowship enables writers from all disciplines who have not had the opportunity to develop their scholarship, and supports writers who are currently employed as adjuncts or visiting professors with terminal degrees and who have not yet published a book-length work.

L-R: Bard Writer in Residence Mona Simpson (photo by Alex Hoerner) and Bard Visiting Professor of the Humanities Adam Shatz (photo by Sarah Shatz).

Bard College Professors Mona Simpson and Adam Shatz Awarded 2024–25 Berlin Prize

Bard College is pleased to announce that Writer in Residence Mona Simpson and Visiting Professor of the Humanities Adam Shatz have each been awarded the 2024–25 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. The 2024–25 class of Berlin Prize fellows includes 24 US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.

Tanya Marcuse, associate professor of photography at Bard College. Photo by Jonah Romm ’24

Bard Professor Tanya Marcuse Receives American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship for 2024–25

Tanya Marcuse, associate professor of photography at Bard College, has received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship for 2024–25. The fellowship will support her creative arts project Tree of Yggdrasil: Photographing Fragility and Growth, which will focus on Iceland’s vividly contrasting landscapes of treeless expanses and small forest enclaves.