1. Ciencia

BARD COLLEGE
TRANSITION LIST
January 28, 2015
FALL 2014 TO SPRING 2015
CHAIRS and DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
The Honorable Wilmot James, Hannah Arendt Center Senior Visiting Fellow (April 2–12, 2015)
Benjamin LaFarge to Professor Emeritus of English
Laura van den Berg, Spring 2015 Bard Fiction Prize recipient
Jeanne van Heeswijk, Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism (spring 2015)
NEW TENURE-LINE FACULTY
Gabriel Perron, Assistant Professor of Biology
NEW VISITING FACULTY
Franco Baldasso, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian (spring 2015 through spring 2016)
David Barker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts (spring 2015)
Emilbek T. Dzhuraev, Center for Civic Engagement Teaching Fellow (spring 2015)
Benjamin Houston, Visiting Lecturer for Geographic Information Systems course (spring 2015)
Jennifer Hudson, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities (spring 2015)
Aaron Landsman, Visiting Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance (spring 2015)
Hilda Puig, FLET/Visiting Instructor in Spanish (spring 2015)
Richard Wing, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard Rockefeller Science Semester (spring 2015)
FACULTY GOING ON SABBATICAL
Jean Churchill (LOA F15)
Matthew Deady
Garry Hagberg
Cole Heinowitz
Stephen Shore
FACULTY RETURNING FROM SABBATICAL
Myra Armstead
Ethan Bloch
Samuel Hsiao (LOA S15)
Brooke Jude
Robert McGrail
Michelle Murray (LOA S15)
Matthew Mutter (LOA S15)
Julia Rosenbaum (LOA S15)
Yuka Suzuki
Olga Voronina (LOA S15)
FACULTY GOING (or continuing) ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Myra Armstead (partial)
Rob Culp (S15 LOA)
Michael Donnelly
Peter Filkins (2014-2015)
Larry Fink (spring 2015)
Lianne Habinek (2014-2015)
Samuel Hsiao (Sabb F14)
Michelle Murray (Sabb F14)
Matthew Mutter (Sabb F14)
Kelly Reichardt (spring 2015)
James Romm (2014-2015)
Julia Rosenbaum (Sabb F14)
Olga Voronina (Sabb F14)
FACULTY RETURNING FROM LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Peggy Ahwesh (sabb S14)
Thomas Bartscherer
Katherine Boivin
Ken Buhler
Cecile Kuznitz
Blair McMillen
Jonathan Rosenberg
FELLOWS
Rosanil Nava Lara, Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Doctoral Fellow (March 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015)
Shmuel Lederman, Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Doctoral Fellow (February 10, 2015 – August 31, 2015)
Alexander Soros, Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Doctoral Fellow (2014-2018)
Nicholas A.J. Taylor, Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Doctoral Fellow (March 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015)
OTHER CHANGES
Victoria Anderson returning to one-third time (spring 2015)
Alan Avery-Peck returning to one course (spring 2015)
David Bush continuing (spring 2015)
Helen Epstein returns to one-third time (spring 2015)
Jessica Geer returning as Visiting Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry (spring 2015)
Ed Halter to Critic in Residence (effective July 1, 2014)
Joseph Kirtland returning as Visiting Professor of Computer Science (spring 2015)
Robert McGrail to Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Rueven Namdar continuing one course (spring 2015)
Phil Pardi returning to one course (spring 2015)
Gilles Peress returning to half-time (springs 2015, 2016, 2017)
Robert Velez continuing one course (spring 2015)
Susan Winchell-Sweeney returning as Course Tutor for Geographic Information Systems (spring 2015)
Ruth Zisman to Visiting Assistant Professor of the Humanities
FACULTY LEAVING THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE
Jules Albertini
Jeffrey Binder
Anna Cafaro
Wout Cornellisen
Robert Currie
Dmitry Dobrovskiy
Jack Ferver
Glen Fogel
Maximillian Goldfarb
John Kelly
John Michael Kuczynski
Lindsey Liberatore
Christopher Oldfather