On and Off Campus Bard Welcomes New Trustees Bard College’s Board of Trustees welcomes three new members. James Cox Chambers ’81 is a filmmaker (Field Hand Productions) and organic farmer (owner of Honey Dog Farm in Hillsdale, New York). Cox serves on the national board of directors of Communities in Schools, a nationwide network that works within public school systems to help students remain in school, graduate, and achieve in life. Chambers served on Bard’s Board of Trustees for two three-year terms in the 1990s, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Bard Center during the 1980s. He is the father of James C. Chambers Jr. ’14. Paul S. Efron is advisory director, member of the Firmwide Capital Committee, and cochair of the Credit Capital Markets Committee at Goldman Sachs & Co. He joined the firm in 1984 and was named partner in 1998. He worked in the Investment Banking Division in New York and London; his previous responsibilities included cohead of the Leveraged Finance Business, head of New Product Development for Investment Banking, and head of European Capital Markets. Efron earned his B.A. cum laude in English from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has previously served as chair of the Pomona College Board of Trustees. In 1980, he earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named to the Director’s Honor List. Maja Hoffmann is a contemporary art collector and supporter and producer of international art, film, publishing, and environmental projects. She is
Faculty Grants Support Arts and Social Studies Professor of Classical and Historical Studies Carolyn Dewald has received a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, University of Oxford, for fall (Michaelmas Term) 2013. Visiting Fellowships are intended to provide scholars with the time and space for study and research in Oxford and to participate in the academic life of the university. During her fellowship, Dewald will continue to work with Rosaria Munson, professor of classics and department chair at Swarthmore College, on Herodotus’ Histories: Book I (Cambridge University Press), a volume in the Cambridge Classics series. This definitive series, popularly known as the Green and Yellow Series, will comprise nine volumes upon completion. Dewald and Munson’s edition serves as an introduction to the whole series as well as to Herodotus as the first historian. Incorporating recent scholarship that has revolutionized Herodotean studies, Dewald and Munson will take advantage of Oxford’s rich library holdings and have the opportunity to collaborate with renowned scholars in the field to complete their work and produce new literary and historical commentary on Herodotus’ Book I. Jacqueline Goss, associate professor of film and electronic arts and celebrated filmmaker, has been named a 2012 United States Artists (USA) Rockefeller Fellow. Goss hopes the unrestricted grant will help finance a new film. “I’m very thankful for this fellowship,” says Goss. “With few funding sources for truly experimental and independent media, the USA Rockefeller award means I can make my next film. It’s an honor to be among the 50 artists recognized this year.” Working in film, video, animation, and programming, Goss describes her work as “animated documentaries” where “historical document meets the unabashedly subjective eye.” Her most recent film, The Observers (2011), documents the climatologists who work at the Mt. Washington Weather Observatory. Kenneth Haig, assistant professor of political studies, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Japan-
From left to right: James Cox Chambers ’81, photo Scott Henrichsen; Paul S. Efron, photo Pomona College; Maja Hoffmann, photo Karl Rabe
founder of the LUMA Foundation, which launches cultural and art projects worldwide. Hoffmann is president of the Kunsthalle Zürich Foundation and vice president of the Council of the Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, a board member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, and a trustee of the Tate Museum in London. She commissioned Olafur Eliasson to create and install the parliament of reality, the site-specific sculpture adjacent to The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College that opened in spring 2009. U.S. Friendship Commission in support of research in Japan and South Korea. His yearlong project, “The Greying of Democratic East Asia: The Politics of Population Policies in Japan and South Korea,” explores the social, economic, and political challenges that East Asia’s richest democracies face. Haig’s research focuses on the different experiences in Japan and South Korea, where the contemporary standard of dual-income families is shifting away from the region’s traditional model of relying on women as family caregivers for both children and the elderly. He will study gender-role changes in East Asia’s longstanding social practices and workplace cultures, as well as the impact of government-sponsored family welfare policies where few existed before. Richard Suchenski, assistant professor of film and electronic arts, received a grant from the French American Cultural Exchange Program in partnership with Cultural Services of the French Embassy for the renewal of the Tournées Festival, a festival of new French cinema. The 2013 festival features nine films, including five contemporary French films and four related classics from the 1940s and 1950s, screened in February and March. The Florence Gould Foundation, Grand Marnier Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment are additional sponsors. Suchenski spoke about the festival as part of a panel, “European Cinema in American Colleges and Universities,” hosted by the European Union National Institutes for Cultures in New York. Pavlina R. Tcherneva, research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and assistant professor of economics at Bard, has won the 2013 Helen Potter Prize from the Association for Social Economics (ASE). The award, created and endowed by the ASE in 1975, is given each year to a promising scholar of social economics for authoring the best article in The Review of Social Economy. Tcherneva’s article, “Permanent On-the-Spot Job Creation—The Missing Keynes Plan for Full Employment and Economic Transformation,” published in the March 2012 issue, was selected for the prestigious prize. The award was presented at the ASE annual meeting in San Diego, California, in January.
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