Gender and Sexuality Studies Concentration
The Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) concentration embraces the importance of gender as a fundamental category of analysis across disciplines. The concentration explores how gender and sexuality are intertwined with structures of power and inequality, and considers masculinity and femininity, sexuality, and transgender issues in relation to other analytical frameworks such as race, class, age, and sexual orientation. Becoming familiar with the history, theoretical foundations, methods, and core debates of the discipline, students concentrating in GSS should graduate with a solid grasp of what defines Gender and Sexuality Studies as a vibrant, evolving field of interdisciplinary research and analysis.Requirements + Courses
GSS is committed to the study of issues specific to women and the LGBT community, with added emphasis on understanding disciplinary models of knowledge.
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RequirementsGSS is a concentration, not a primary program of study. In consultation with GSS faculty and program advisers, students may declare a concentration in GSS at the time of their Moderation into their primary program or thereafter at a separate Moderation. Moderation, midway, and Senior Project boards should include at least one GSS faculty member.
Students must fulfill the Moderation requirements of both the primary program and the GSS concentration, which requires a total of five courses cross-listed with GSS, two of which must be completed, or in progress, at the time of Moderation. The Senior Project should focus on an issue related to gender and sexuality studies. -
CoursesThe program offers courses that examine the lives and experiences of women and LGBTQ+ people in a variety of historical, cultural, and political contexts; courses that engage questions of sexual difference, sexual roles, sexual socialization, and sexual bias; and courses that explore various intersections between feminism, gender theory, queer theory, transgender studies, postcolonialism, indigeneity, Black studies, and social justice activism.
Recent courses include Contemporary Queer Theory; Perspectives in LGBT Studies; Sociology of Gender; Gender and Deviance; Women’s Rights, Human Rights; Gay Rights, Human Rights; Feminist Ethics; Woman as Cyborg; LGBTQ in Rural and Urban America; Women Writing the Caribbean; Representing the Unspeakable; Nature, Sex, and Power; Victorian Bodies; Gender and Sexuality in Judaism; Reading Arab Women Writers in Translation; Gender and Politics in National Security; Women and the Economy; and Women’s Bodies / Women’s Voices.
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Coordinator: Robert Weston
Gender Equity at Bard
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More than 150 student clubs and organizations are active at Bard. Among these are groups specific to women, the LGBTQ community, and allies, including the Queer Student Association, Women of Color United, QPOC (Queer People of Color), Trans Life Collective, and the Transfem Brunch Club, among others.
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Business Insider Interviews Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva about the Job Guarantee
Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva spoke to Business Insider about Universal Basic Employment (UBE), which is a job guarantee policy. “A job guarantee is really a public option for jobs. It’s a basic job that is provided irrespective of what the state of the economy is,” said Tcherneva, who is the author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020). “We can implement it now when the economy is in a relatively calm state and then be ready when business conditions slow down and people are laid off.”
Business Insider Interviews Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva about the Job Guarantee
Post Date: 08-20-2024
Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses the Recent Stock Market Sell-Off on Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Bard Professor of Economics and President of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva spoke with journalist Ian Masters about Monday’s panic on Wall Street and fears that it may presage a recession. “I’m not exactly sure if it’s a panic, or an opportunity to liquidate some positions,” said Tcherneva.Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses the Recent Stock Market Sell-Off on Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Post Date: 08-06-2024
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College has appointed Pavlina R. Tcherneva as its next president, succeeding Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, who has held the role since its founding in 1986. “After 38 years as president of the Levy Institute, the time has come to pass the baton to the new generation,” Papadimitriou announced. “I can think of no one better than Pavlina to lead the Levy Institute into its next phase of development in exploring solutions to the economic challenges that lie ahead.”The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President
“After 38 years as president of the Levy Institute, the time has come to pass the baton to the new generation,” Papadimitriou announced. “I can think of no one better than Pavlina to lead the Levy Institute into its next phase of development in exploring solutions to the economic challenges that lie ahead.” Papadimitriou will remain at the Institute as president emeritus and senior scholar.
Tcherneva, who first joined the Levy Institute in 1997 as a forecasting fellow, has been a scholar at the Institute since 2007, specializing in modern money and public policy. She is a professor of economics at Bard College and founding director of the Bard-OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative. Her book The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020), one of the Financial Times economics books of 2020 and published in nine languages, is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today.
“I am honored and energized to take this new role and am grateful to Dimitri Papadimitriou for building a world-class institution that has influenced economic policy in the US and abroad. I am especially excited to support the work of my colleagues whose research has placed the Levy Institute among the most-cited non-profits in the world,” stated Tcherneva. “My mission is clear: to continue to curate cutting-edge research, grow our graduate programs, and amplify the Institute's impact on policy. We have produced some of the most influential work on financial instability, money, inequality, gender, and employment policy and we will continue to make these impacts and expand the Institute's reach.”
She added, “Our work matters. Financial markets crash. Mainstream theories fail. At the Levy Economics Institute, we will continue to do what we do best: make sense of the senseless, find patterns in the chaos of global economics, and produce actionable policies for a safe, sustainable, and stable economy.”
Since 1986, the Levy Institute and its scholars have reinvigorated heterodox economics, with contributions to macroeconomic theory, modeling, and policy targeting financial and economic stability for the US economy and the rest of the world. The Levy Institute has also developed a distinct research program on the distribution of income and wealth featuring two measures of economic well-being (LIMEW) and time and income poverty (LIMTIP) that will help shift official measures of living standards in the years ahead; is one of few institutions with a focus on gender equality and the economy; and has graduated scholars from its MA and MS degree programs in Economic Theory and Policy, who go on to play significant roles in economic think tanks, international organizations, governments, and the world of finance.
Post Date: 07-09-2024