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Richard H.
Davis
Jonathan E.
Brockopp
Bruce
Chilton
Bradley
Clough
Jeffrey
Lidke
Natan
Margalit
Paul E.
Murray
Jacob
Neusner
Rona
Sheramy
Karen
Sullivan
 Richard H. Davis
(director)
Associate Professor of Religion
B.A.,
University of Chicago; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of
Chicago. Taught at Yale University, University of Chicago, and School of
the Art Institute of Chicago. Research associate, Yale Center for
International and Area Studies and South Asia Regional Council,
Association for Asian Studies. Secretary, American Council for Southern
Asian Art. Assistant editor, Journal of Asian Studies.
Publications: Lives of Indian Images (1997), winner of 1999 A. K.
Coomaraswamy Prize; Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva
in Medieval India (1991). Contributor, Contesting the Nation:
Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (1996),
History and Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies,
Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Oriental Research, and
History of Religions. Editor, Images, Miracles, and Authority in
Asian Religious Traditions (1998). Fellowships: Guggenheim,
Fulbright-Hays, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the
Humanities. Bard College (1997— )
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 Jonathan E. Brockopp
Assistant
Professor of Religion.
B.A., Valparaiso University; graduate
studies, Tübingen University, American University in Cairo; Ph.D., Yale
University. Fellowships, grants, and awards: Institute of Advanced Study,
Hebrew University (1999); American Research Center in Egypt (1995);
Whiting Foundation Prize Dissertation Fellowship (1993—94); Fulbright
Fellowship (1990—91, 1999—2000). Books: Islamic Ethics of Life
(forthcoming); Early Maliki Law (2000); Judaism and Islam in
Practice, with Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn (2000). Articles and
reviews in The Muslim World, International Journal of Middle
East Studies, Islamic Law and Society, Journal of the
American Oriental Society, Middle East Journal, Religious
Studies Review. Contributor to Encyclopedia of the Qurán and
Pilgrim Library of World Religions, a five-volume series. Member and
panelist, American Academy of Religion (cochair, section for study of
Islam), American Oriental Society, Columbia Arabic Seminar, Middle East
Studies Association. Bard College (1995— ).
See Jonathan
Brokopp's "Study of Islam Section"
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 Bruce Chilton
Bernard Iddings
Bell Professor of Religion, Chaplain of the College, Executive
Director of the Institute of Advanced Theology.
B.A., Bard
College; M.Div., General Theological Seminary, Columbia University;
ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood; Ph.D., Cambridge
University. Lillian Claus Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale
University (1986—87); appointments at Union Theological Seminary,
Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, St. John’s College, Sheffield
University. Books include Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography,
God in Strength, Judaic Approaches to the Gospels,
Revelation, Trading Places, Jesus’ Prayer and Jesus’
Eucharist, Forging a Common Future, and Jesus’ Baptism and
Jesus’ Healing. Articles in many journals. Editor in chief,
Bulletin for Biblical Research; founding editor, Journal for the
Study of the New Testament, Studying the Historical Jesus
series (E. J. Brill and Eerdman’s). Fellowships and awards: with Jacob
Neusner, Choice magazine award, best academic book (1998);
Evangelical Scholars Fellowship, A. Whitney Griswold Center (Yale
University); Heinrich Hertz Stiftung, Theological Development Fund of the
Episcopal Church, National Conference of Christians and Jews. Bard College
(1987— ).
See Bruce
Chilton's "The Temple"
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 Bradley Clough
Assistant Professor
of Religion and Asian Studies.
B.A., St. Lawrence
University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Taught Asian religions at
Columbia University, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch
College Abroad in India. Areas of interest: comparative religion, Buddhist
studies, south Asian culture. Prizes: President’s Fellowship and Teaching
Fellowship, Columbia University; American Council for Learned Societies
grant (1999—2000). Book reviews in Journal of Religion and
Health, Religious Studies Review, Journal of Asian
Studies. Contributor to Pilgrim Library of World Religions series,
Comparing Religious Traditions series, and Encyclopedia of Women and
Religion. Chair, Seminar on Asian Thought and Religion, Columbia
University (1994—97); faculty director, New York State Independent College
Consortium for Study in India (1997—98). Codirector, First-Year
Seminar (1999— ). Bard College (1994— ).
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 Jeffrey Lidke
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Religion
Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the
University of California, Santa Barbara (2000). Taught last year at
Grinnell College (2000-2001). Executive Member of King Birendra
International Oriental Research Program at Mahendra Sanskrit Univesity in
Kathmandu, Nepal. Dissertation: "The Goddess Beyond and Within the Three
Cities: Sakta Tantra and the Paradox of Power in Nepala-Mandala." Honors:
The Raimundo Pannikar Award for Excellence in the Study of South Asia
(2000), Fulbright Fellow (1996). Author of: "Vishvarupa Mandir: A Study of
Changu Narayan, Nepal's Most Ancient Temple" (New Delhi: Nirala
Plublications, 1996); “Sahaja Samådhi—The Innate Mystical Experience: A
Discussion of Sadhana in the Trika-Kaulism of Abhinavagupta” (Epoche,
Journal for the Study of Religions 19: 1994]; “The Other Within:
Deconstruction Unearths a Dark Lord.” (Epoch, Journal for the Study of
Religions 22, Fall: 2000); and "Centers, Peripheries, and the Dance of
Power in Nepala-Mandala" (Fortchoming in Hugh Urban and Glen Hayes, eds.,
"Tantra in the Flesh"
[SUNY Press]). Areas of teaching and research
experience: Sanskrit, Myth, and the Arts of South Asia, Indian Classical
Music, World Religions, Indian Philosophy, Tantra, Yoga, History of
Religions, Islam in India, Critical Theory, Ethnography, Comparative
Mysticism, and Religion and Ecology.
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 Natan Margalit
College
Rabbi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion.
Ordained rabbi, Jerusalem Seminary, Israel. B.A., Reed College;
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Rabbinic fellow, National
Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York. Bard College (2000— )
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 Paul E. Murray
Visiting Assistant
Professor of Religion.
B.A., Bard College; S.T.B.,
Pontifical Gregorian University; M.A., Ph.D., Catholic University of
America. Founder and executive director, Among Friends, Inc., which
provides transitional housing, counseling, and job-search support to
persons in crisis (1992—97). Pastoral ministry, Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. (1975—98). Publications: "A Cultural Reading of Literature on the
Catholic Church in the South," Culture of Bible Belt Catholics;
"The ‘International Outlook’," Place of the Person in Social Life;
and articles, interviews, and book reviews in Anthropos;
Technology and Disability; National Catholic Reporter;
Charities, U.S.A.; Washington Blade; others. Bard College
(1997— )
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 Jacob Neusner
Research Professor
of Religion and Theology
Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced
Theology
Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and
Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced
Theology at Bard as well. He also is a Member of the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge
University, in England. He has published more than 850 books and
unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and
journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the
world.
He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and
European honorary doctorates, from the University of Chicago, the
University of Rochester, Bologna University in Italy (in celebration of
the University's 900th anniversary), Cologne University in Germany, Tulane
University, St. Louis University; and Dowling College. In addition he
holds fourteen academic medals and prizes, including The University Medal
of Excellence, Columbia University, the Medal of Collège de France, the
University of Tübingen Medal commemorating that University1s five
hundredth anniversary, the Queen Christina of Sweden Medal of Åbo Akademi
(Finland), and the Abraham Berliner Prize in Jewish History of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, as well as numerous other academic awards
and prizes.
He grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and is a graduate of
William H. Hall High School (1950). He received his A. B. from Harvard
College in 1953, his Ph. D. from Columbia University and Union Theological
Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of
Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in 1960.
During his graduate studies he also was Henry Fellow at Lincoln College,
Oxford University, 1953-1954, and Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 1957-1958. In his professional career he was
founding chairman of the Department of Hebrew Studies at University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1961–62), held a post-doctoral fellowship at Brandeis
University (1962–64), and taught at Dartmouth College and at Brown
University (1964-1989); he spent a research year at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, (1989-1990), and served as Distinguished
Research Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida
(1990 to 2000). He began teach at Bard College on a part-time basis in
1994 and moved to New York to assume full-time duties in 2000. He has held
two fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and two
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation as well as an NEH Fellowship
and many other research awards. He also has held visiting professorships
at the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America. In 1991 he was awarded the Buber Chair at the University of
Frankfurt, in 1992 was Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in 1993
Visiting Research Professor at Åbo Akademi in Finland, in 1994 Canterbury
Fellow at University of Canterbury, in New Zealand, in 1995, Von Humboldt
Research Professor at University of Göttingen, and in 1996 he was Visiting
Professor in Theology at Uppsala University.
He was President of the American Academy of Religion (1968-1969)
and a member of the founding committee of the Association for Jewish
Studies (1967-1970). He single-handedly founded the European Association
of Jewish Studies (1980-1981). He also served, by appointment of President
Carter, as Member of the National Council on the Humanities and, by
appointment of President Reagan, as Member of the National Council on the
Arts (1978-1984, 1984-1990, respectively). He is Editor of Academic
Studies in the History of Judaism, Academic Studies on Religion and the
Social Order, and International Studies in Formative Christianity and
Judaism, all at Global Publications, and is editor of the Encyclopaedia of
Judaism (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; chairman of the
Editorial Board of The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, and Editor in Chief of
the Brill Reference Library of Judaism, both of them published by E. J.
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of Studies in Ancient
Judaism, University Press of America. He was editor for Judaism of the
Dictionary of Religion (Harper/AAR), and the Encyclopaedia of Religion
(Britannica/Merriam Webster).
He resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a
daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, four granddaughters and a
grandson.
See
Jacob Neusner's Curriculum Vitae
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 Rona Sheramy
Assistant Professor
of Jewish Studies.
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D.,
Brandeis University. Taught at Clark University; Brandeis University;
Riverdale Country School, Bronx, New York. Honors and fellowships:
American Association of University Women American Fellowship; Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship; Women of Vision Society Grant;
Irving D. Klein Memorial Fellowship; Rapoport Fellowship; Leo Wasserman
Fellowship; others. Various articles, reviews, and public papers. Bard
College (2000— )
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 Karen Sullivan
Associate
Professor of Literature.
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: "Inquiry and
Inquisition in Late Medieval Culture: The Questioning of Joan of Arc and
Christine de Pizan." Taught at UC Berkeley (1992—93). Author of The
Interrogation of Joan of Arc: Trial Transcripts as Literature (1999).
Honors: Sigmund Martin Heller Traveling Fellowship (1991—92); National
Endowment for the Humanities grant (1985). Bard College (1993— )
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