Bartek Starodaj ’12 MS ’12 Named New Director of Housing Initiatives in Kingston, New York
Bard alumnus Bartek Starodaj ’12 MS ’12 was tapped by the city of Kingston, New York, as the new director of housing initiatives, as reported in the Daily Freeman. Starodaj, who lives in Kingston, will be tasked with implementing the Tiny Home Project and a citywide rezoning project, among other responsibilities.
Bartek Starodaj ’12 MS ’12 Named New Director of Housing Initiatives in Kingston, New York
Post Date: 01-04-2022
Hold the Beef! EUS Research Professor Gidon Eshel Spoke with the Guardian about McDonald’s Impact on Earth’s Climate
McDonald’s business, so heavily reliant on beef, is “fundamentally at odds with the Earth’s integrity,” says Gidon Eshel, environmental and urban studies research professor, in an interview with the Guardian. The company, which has announced sustainability initiatives in recent years, would need to commit to dramatically reducing the amount of beef it serves, according to climate experts.Hold the Beef! EUS Research Professor Gidon Eshel Spoke with the Guardian about McDonald’s Impact on Earth’s Climate
Post Date: 12-14-2021
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Named Joint Winner of the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize
The American Ethnological Society has named Associate Professor of Anthropology Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins as a joint winner of the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize. The Sharon Stephens Book Prize is awarded biennially for a junior scholar’s first book in recognition of Sharon Stephens’ commitment to scholarship of the highest intellectual caliber informed by deep care for the world. Stamatopoulou-Robbins won for her book Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press 2019), which has received three book awards already.Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Named Joint Winner of the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize
The Prize Committee was unanimous in their praise for Stamatopoulou-Robbins’ Waste Siege: "which provides a nuanced perspective on the difficult topic of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Through a careful sifting of the various sites at which waste from Israel threatens to overwhelm physical settings and the ordinary lives of Palestinians, Stamatopoulou-Robbins leads us to appreciate the structural impossibility of Palestinian self-government as a rejoinder to utopian fantasies of a two-state solution. The tracing of the afterlives of bread in the midst of the hurly burly of urban lives and waste management projects, incomplete of necessity, suggests alternative geographies of food infrastructure and mutual aid. We are treated to people who are fully fleshed-out and multi-dimensional and whose voices of rueful honesty, of humor mixed with anguish, continue to ring in our ears long after we put down the book. A community under siege is connected to the rest of the world by waste.”
Her book has also won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award, American Library Association's Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, and the American Anthropological Association’s Middle East Section (MES) Book Award.
Post Date: 10-12-2021
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Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Wins American Anthropological Association Book Award for Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Wins American Anthropological Association Book Award for Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Bard Associate Professor of Anthropology Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins’ first book Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford, 2019) has won the 2021 American Anthropological Association’s Middle East Section (MES) Book Award, which is the second major award the book has received. “Waste Siege exemplifies ethnography’s capacity to mediate between the universal and the particular and between the global and the local,” writes the prize committee to her. “You offer a riveting and theoretically capacious engagement with the infrastructural, environmental, moral, and aesthetic dimensions of waste, all the while problematizing the boundaries implied by these categories. The ethnography’s meticulous attention to empirical detail, coupled with expansive multidisciplinary framing, make it a ‘must-read’ across domains of expertise and disciplinary commitments. The committee was especially struck by your subtle yet insistent commitment to documenting devastating and mundane dimensions of life under Occupation while also positioning Palestine as a lens for understanding worldwide and human dilemmas in the face of environmental collapse.” She will be celebrated at the MES business meeting and awards ceremony.
The Middle East Section Book Award is awarded biennially to an anthropological work (single- or multi-authored, but not edited volumes) that speaks to issues in a way that holds relevance beyond our subfield. Criteria may include: innovative approaches, theoretical sophistication, and topical originality.
Her book also won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award in 2020.
Post Date: 09-30-2021
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Environmental Performance of Blue Foods: Professor Gidon Eshel and Colleagues Examine Sustainability Impacts of Aquatic Food Sources for Nature Cover Story
Environmental Performance of Blue Foods: Professor Gidon Eshel and Colleagues Examine Sustainability Impacts of Aquatic Food Sources for Nature Cover Story
Research Professor Gidon Eshel, who teaches primarily in the Environmental and Urban Studies Program at Bard College, has coauthored a paper in Nature that provides the most comprehensive estimate to date of the environmental performance of blue food (fish and other aquatic foods) and for the first time, compares stressors across the diversity of farmed and wild aquatic species. The study reveals which species are already performing well in terms of emissions, freshwater and land use, and identifies opportunities for further reducing environmental footprints.
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Nature Story on Blue Foods
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Post Date: 09-19-2021
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“Ghost Forests”: Virginia Hanusik ’14 Photographs Louisiana’s Vanishing Wetlands, Which Are Being Lost to Sea Level Rise
“Ghost Forests”: Virginia Hanusik ’14 Photographs Louisiana’s Vanishing Wetlands, Which Are Being Lost to Sea Level Rise
South Louisiana contains around half of the country’s wetlands—and accounts for almost 90 percent of the country’s wetland losses. Bard alumna Virginia Hanusik ’14, a New Orleans–based photographer whose work centers on climate change and environmental justice, documents Louisiana’s vanishing wetlands in this National Geographic feature on the “Amazon of North America.”
Post Date: 04-20-2021
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Kingston Air Quality Initiative Turns In First-Year Results
Kingston Air Quality Initiative Turns In First-Year Results
A year ago, the City of Kingston and the Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water at Bard College began monitoring the city’s air quality. The initial findings show that air pollution is relatively low, yet even during 2020, when vehicle emissions were down due to the pandemic, the city still saw the impact of burning fossil fuels.
Post Date: 03-19-2021
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Professor Eli Dueker Writes: To Judge Coney Barrett from Your Transgender Sorority Vice President: Keep Your Pledge
Professor Eli Dueker Writes: To Judge Coney Barrett from Your Transgender Sorority Vice President: Keep Your Pledge
Eli Dueker, associate professor of environmental and urban studies at Bard College, remembers Supreme Court judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett as “whip-smart and incredibly kind,” back when they were Kappa Delta sorority sisters at Rhodes College in the 1990s. Professor Dueker has since come out as a transgender man and become an environmental microbiologist, devoting his professional life to addressing environmental racism in the United States. As Coney Barrett faces a contentious nomination process to the Supreme Court, Professor Dueker questions her commitment to the ideals they pledged to at Kappa Delta: integrity, honor, and uplifting of other women.
Post Date: 10-21-2020
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Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air & Water Partners with City of Kingston to Monitor Air Quality
Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air & Water Partners with City of Kingston to Monitor Air Quality
“Although Kingston's air quality is, for the most part, doing well, we know that increased traffic, train activity, wood burning, and household heating systems can contribute to short-term air quality issues and long-term health issues if not appropriately managed,” said Eli Dueker, director of the Center for the Study of Land, Air, & Water, which partnered with the City of Kingston’s Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Sub-Committee to form the Kingston Air Quality Initiative. “This research addresses what Kingston needs to be able to meet its sustainability goals long-term.”
Post Date: 09-01-2020
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