67 faculty and 4 courses in Social Sciences at Bard College.
- Christopher McIntosh h-index 25
- Omar G. Encarnación h-index 22
South American and Southern European politics, especially democratization, social movements, and LGBTQ politics. He is the author of Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship (Polity Press, 2008) ; Democracy without Justice in
- Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Jerome Levy Professor of Economics h-index 20
- Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics; President, Levy Economics Institute h-index 19
- Sanjib Baruah h-index 18
Political economy, nations and nationalism, Asian borderlands, and South Asian Politics. His publications include India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999); Durable Disorder
- Michael Martell, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 13
Labor, applied microeconomics, economics of inequality, feminist economics, and economic development. He has served as an economist in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor; a
- Laura Kunreuther h-index 8
- Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins h-index 8
Infrastructure, waste, environment, platform capitalism, and the home. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), has won five major book awards and explores what happens when
- Yuka Suzuki h-index 7
- Daniel Berthold h-index 7
19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism, environmental ethics, medical ethics, feminist philosophy About Daniel Berthold B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Specializat
- Birte Strunk, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 4
Es on linking social and ecological perspectives, especially around questions on labor. As a philosopher, she explores Degrowth as a Critical Theory of the economy. In the past, she published on feminist ecological economics, degrowth and p
- Valentina Grasso h-index 3
- Jomaira Salas Pujols h-index 2
The study of Afro-Latina girlhood, Black girls’ perceptions of school dress codes, and the racialized legacies of punishment in school. She teaches courses on race and ethnicity, the sociology of children and youth, educa
- Lucas G. Pinheiro h-index 2
The history of political thought, contemporary political theory, critical theory, and politics and aesthetics. His current book project, Factories of Modernity: Political Thought in the Capitalist Epoch , recasts the factory system
- Yarran Hominh h-index 2
Philosophy of law, ethics, colonialism, early modern European philosophy, Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Confucianism, critical Asian American philosophy, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is associate edito
- Emanuele Citera, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 2
Of interest include monetary economics, complexity economics, and the history of economics. His work has been published in various academic journals, including Structural Change and Economic Dynamics , the Review of Political Ec
- Victor Apryshchenko h-index 2
Es on the political history of Europe, including Russia, historical memory management in Europe and Russia, and theories of nation and nationalism. In previous years he was a fellow of Carnegie Foundation, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Paulse
- Simon Gilhooley h-index 2
History of political thought; American political thought; Constitutional theory; American political development; public media and democratic politics; philosophy and practice in the Early Republic
- Mie Inouye h-index 1
- Folarin Ajibade h-index 1
- Miles V. Rodríguez h-index 1
- Youssef Ait Benasser, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 1
Es on analyzing trade policy irregularities in the context of weakening multilateralism. Publications include “Measuring Trade Policy Uncertainty and Its Impact on Financial Market Volatility” (under review); working papers addr
- Allison McKim
Recent patterns in American crime control and punishment; intersections of race, class, and gender; attempts to regulate and normalize women;; the construction and treatment of addiction; the welfare state; gender inequality; the governanc
- Aniruddha Mitra, Director; Associate Professor of Economics
Microeconomics; game theory; industrial organization; developmental economics; the economics of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the economics of migration. His research employs both theoretical and empirical methods to investigate
- Bruce Chilton
- Cecile E. Kuznitz
- Christian Ayne Crouch
Early modern Atlantic world history, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Atlantic slavery, empire, and material culture About Christian Ayne Crouch BA, Princeton University; MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University. Author, Nobility Lo
- Christopher Lindner
- Dominique Townsend
Asian religions, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and culture, Buddhist art and aesthetics, poetry in Buddhist literature, gender and sexuality in Buddhism, Tibetan language and literature, tantric traditions, and contemporary Buddhist pr
- Drew Thompson
S include African and African American visual and material culture, Black internationalist movements, and histories of photography. Recent exhibitions include Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village at The Dorsky Museum of A
- Erin Atwell
- Garry L. Hagberg
- Gautam Sethi, Associate Professor of Economics and Econometrics
- Gregory B. Moynahan
Modern European intellectual and cultural history and the history of science and technology. Research interests include history of the social sciences, systems theory, and computing/cybernetics in the two Germanys. Author, Ernst Cassirer
- J. Andrew Bush
- Jay Elliott
- Jeffrey Jurgens
- John Ryle
- Jonathan Becker
Voting Rights, Democracy and Authoritarianism, Russian and East European, Politics, Media and Politics, Comparative Politics About Jonathan Becker Jonathan Becker is entering his 30th year at Bard College. In addition to being acting
- Jussara dos Santos Raxlen
Es on the intersection of knowledge systems, power, and care. She is interested in how the politics and ethics of forms of knowing and ordering the world create spatial and symbolic boundaries that facilitate or burden social relations and
- Karen Barkey
- Kathryn Tabb
- Kris Feder
Public-sector economics and history of economic thought. Temple University awards: Russell Conwell Fellowship (1984–86), University Fellowship (1983–84), summer tuition scholarship (1984). Taught at Franklin and Marshall Coll
- Kyle Mohr, Visiting Instructor in Economics
Unemployment, labor economics, monetary theory and policy, and the history of economic thought. He has served as lecturer in the economics department at Skidmore College and research scholar at Bard’s Economic Democracy Initia
- Michèle D. Dominy
Social and cultural anthropology About Michèle D. Dominy A.B. (honors), Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Awards and fellowships: Cornell University and Center for International Studies; National Science Foundation
- Michelle Murray
- Nabanjan Maitra
Hindu studies, with teaching and research interests in religious identity formation, discourses of religious power, reinventions of tradition, and Sanskrit. His book project, The Rebirth of Homo Vedicus , examines the formulation and imp
- Nathanael Aschenbrenner
- Nurgul Ukueva, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
- Pınar Kemerli
- Peter Klein
On urban studies, environmental sociology, globalization and development, political sociology, and qualitative methods. He is engaged in research and community-based projects in both the United States and Brazil. Professor Klein’s res
- Richard Aldous
Twentieth-century international history About Richard Aldous PhD, University of Cambridge. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Teaches British, American, and international history. Author of eight books, two coauthored books
- Richard H. Davis
- Robert J. Culp
Es on book distribution and knowledge production as well as youth culture in 20th-century China. BA, Swarthmore College; MA, University of Michigan; MA, PhD, Cornell University. At Bard since 1999.
- Robert Tully
- Roger Berkowitz
Law, political theory, continental philosophy About Roger Berkowitz B.A., Amherst College; J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Author, The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Leg
- Samuel (Shai) Secunda
Rabbinic Literature About Samuel (Shai) Secunda Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College. He received a bachelor’s degree from Ner Israel Rabbinical College, a master’s
- Sanjaya DeSilva, Associate Professor of Economics
Development, Economic History, South and Southeast Asia About Sanjaya DeSilva Professor DeSilva’s teaching fields include economic development, Asian economic history, international trade, and econometrics. Areas of research inc
- Sean McMeekin
- Seth Halvorson
The history of ideas, policy analysis, global justice and cosmopolitanism, democracy, multiculturalism, civic and moral education, philosophy of law, and distributive and social justice. He comes to the College from Bard High School
- Sucharita Kanjilal
Es on feminist theories of global capitalism, shifting regimes of social reproduction, critical food studies, and contemporary caste-class relations in South Asia. She draws connections between feminist economic anthropology, anthropology o
- Tabetha Ewing
In the sociocultural and sociopolitical history of 18th-century France, early-modern media, early-modern city, early-modern women and gender, old-regime borders, old-regime police, francophone black diasporic thought, and négritu
- Taun Toay, SVP/CFO; Assistant Professor
- Thomas Bartscherer
- Walter Russell Mead
- Wendy Urban-Mead
Africa About Wendy Urban-Mead B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University at Albany; Ph.D., Columbia University. She is the author of The Gender of Piety: Faith, Family, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland Zimbabwe (Ohio University Press
- Yuval Elmelech
Social stratification, social demography About Yuval Elmelech Yuval Elmelech’s research interests include social stratification, race, ethnicity and immigration, poverty, and housing inequality. His recent book Wealth (Polity Pr
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.