Visiting faculty Channing Joseph researches Black and LGBTQ+ history in Washington, D.C., contributing to new historical marker placement
Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to censor both Black and LGBTQ+ history, the city of Washington, D.C. has unveiled a historical marker celebrating the legacy of William Dorsey Swann, the earliest documented person in the world to self-identify as a drag queen. Joseph’s archival research played an essential role in uncovering Swann’s story and the lost history of queer D.C.
Bard College Berlin secures new grant to advance digital human rights investigations
Bard College Berlin has received a new grant from the German Postcode Lottery to expand the Digital Verification Corps (DVC) in Germany for the 2025–26 academic year. The funding will help grow a network of student investigators using open-source tools to document human rights violations — with an exciting new focus on collaboration with technical universities.
- Masooma Hashemi ‘25 and Yesieniia Kudriavtseva ‘26 Receive the Alpine Fellowship Refugee Prize
- Dr. Aslı Vatansever Speaks on Panel “Common Struggles, Unequal Terms: Towards Fair Working Conditions for All Scholars”
- Liza Nezhyva ‘27 takes part in the 80th Annual General Assembly of the United Nations
- Hannah Scharmer ‘21 receives the Seth Benardete Award
- Laura Scuriatti publishes chapter "Mrs Dalloway in Zurich. Ulrike Ulrich's Während wir feiern (2020)" in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives
- Bard College Berlin students took part in hands-on training session on digital human rights investigations with Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps
- Bard College Launches GHEA21, the Global Higher Education Alliance for the 21st Century
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