Adam HajYahia
Adam HajYahia is Assistant Curator at CHRA and Studio Manager as part of the Mellon Foundation Award to Bard College to support the work of Tania El Khoury. Adam is a […]
Grace Crummett
Grace Operations Manager at CHRA. She is a writer and photographer whose work focuses on regenerative agriculture and place-based memory. She has freelanced on television and film productions in NYC, […]
Elie Arden
Elie Arden is a sound designer, installation maker, and performer. She joins the program from the United Kingdom by way of London. Elie’s research interests focus on the relationship between […]
Nabil Salih
Nabil Salih is a writer and photographer. He joins the program from Baghdad, Iraq by way of Washington DC. Nabil’s research interests include Iraqi politics and psychogeography. His work has […]
Arina Pshenichnaya
Arina Pshenichnaya is a researcher, art historian, and learning experience designer for adult online education. She joins the program most recently from Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Arina’s research focuses […]
Mauro Tosarelli
Mauro Tosarelli is a designer and researcher. He joins the program from Italy, by way of Dublin, Ireland. Mauro’s research interests center around detainees and former prisoners as well as […]
Pyae Phyo Aung
Pyae Phyo Aung is a journalist, researcher, and digital content creator. He joins the program from Myanmar. His research interests include community-based ethnography, storytelling, authoritarian regimes, and digital rights.
Sariyah Bonnita Jaser Abuzant
Sariyah Bonnita Jaser Abuzant is a producer and project manager. She joins the program from Palestine by way of Maryland, United States. Sariyah’s research interests focus on conflict resolution in […]
Leil Zahra Mortada
Leil Zahra Mortada is a filmmaker, political organizer, curator, and researcher. Born and raised in South Lebanon, they join the program by way of Berlin, Germany. Leil’s research interests include […]
Sarah Al-Yahya
Sarah Al Yahya is a creative technologist and researcher. She joins the program from Amman, Jordan. Sarah’s research interests center on the decolonial and other sociopolitical potential of new media […]
Juliana Steiner
Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture and long-term projects with communities. Her research […]
Argyro Nicolaou
Argyro Nicolaou is a writer and filmmaker based in New York. Her work deals with the representation of history, displacement, and intergenerational memory in post-conflict, postcolonial societies, like her home […]
Haitham Haddad
Haitham Haddad is a visual artist, graphic designer, illustrator and tattoo artist from Haifa, Palestine. He is the founder and creative director of the multidisciplinary Studio Mnjnk ستوديو منجنيق. His […]
Ciko Sidzumo
Ciko Sidzumo has yet to adopt a discipline. She joins the program from Johannesburg, South Africa. Ciko’s research interests include period poverty, gender-based violence, and movements that work toward the […]
K.
K. is a social researcher, facilitator, and curator who works at the intersection of social sciences, activism, and arts. Her interests include participatory and community-based practices, post-socialism, mobility, citizenship, and […]
Adrienne Truscott
Adrienne Truscott is Coordinator for the M.A. program. She is a live artist whose work crosses forms and methodologies from dance, theater, comedy, club acts, and performance art. Her work […]
Polina Malikin
Polina is an artist, educator, and community organizer whose work focuses on regenerative ecology, liberatory pedagogy, and transformative justice. Born in Russia and raised in the Bronx, she worked nationally […]
Gideon Lester
Gideon Lester is Senior Curator at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts and Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Fisher Center at Bard. A festival director, creative […]
Thomas Keenan
Thomas Keenan is the director of the Human Rights Project and Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility (1997); and, with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull (2012). […]
Ziad Abu-Rish
Ziad Abu-Rish is the director of the MA Program in Human Rights & the Arts, and Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College. His research […]
Nadine Fattaleh
Nadine Fattaleh is a writer and researcher from Amman, Jordan. Her work focuses on spatial practices through cartography and film. She received a B.A. in Middle East, South Asian and […]
Sabine El Chamaa
Sabine El Chamaa is a filmmaker who holds a PhD in Communications, Media, and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London and an MFA, Cinematic Arts in Film Production from […]
Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas
Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas is a historian and anthropologist with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Social Anthropology […]
Lara Fresko Madra
Lara Fresko Madra holds a PhD in Art History from Cornell University. She comes from an interdisciplinary background with an MA in Comparative Literature from Istanbul Bilgi University and a […]
Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is the director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts as well as a Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Theater and Performance Program at […]
Margarita Kuchma (2000 – 2021)
Margarita Kuchma is a video and music artist. She joins the program from St. Petersburg, Russia. Margarita’s research interests include sound and video in advocacy, criminal justice reform, and youth […]
Pavel Zalevskii
Pavel Zalevskii is a researcher and an activist. He joins the program from the Kyrgyz Republic. Pavel’s research interests center on queer politics and their histories in Central Asia.
Hattie Wilder Karlstrom
Hattie Wilder Karlstrom is a researcher and an activist. She joins the program from Amherst, Massachusetts by way of Annandale-on-Hudson. Hattie’s research interests center on borders and the people they […]
Garrett Sager
Garrett Sager (a.k.a. Melissabeth) is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in theater and cabaret. He joins the program from the Boston area by way of the Hudson Valley. Garrett’s research […]
Carol Montealegre
Carol Montealegre is an artist working in performance, installation, and video. She joins the program from Bogota, Colombia. Carol’s research interests include experimental film and performance art as mediums for […]
Iris Luo
Iris Luo tells stories through photography, illustration, and writing, and is trained in theater producing and arts administration. She joins the program from Shanghai, China. Iris’s research interests center on […]
Isabella Indolfi
Isabella Indolfi is an independent curator living between New York City and Maranola (Italy), and working between Western Europe, Russia, Armenia, and the United States of America. Her curatorial research […]
Nour Annan
Nour Annan is a writer, photographer, and inter-disciplinary artist. She joins the program from Lebanon. Nour’s research interests include collective cultural memory and contemporary revolutionary politics. She is a former […]
Tâm Liêu Âm
Tâm Liêu Âm is an artist.
Majd Al-Rafie
Majd Al-Rafie is a graphic designer, illustrator, and activist. She joins the program from Amman, Jordan. Majd’s research interests include Arab queer politics, Palestinian liberation, and art in activism.
Ali Hussein Al-Adawy
Ali Hussein Al-Adawy is a critic, curator, and researcher. He joins the program from Alexandria, Egypt. Ali’s research interests center around representations of labor in film and art, the shifting […]
Immanuel Williams
Immanuel Williams is an interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of painting, printmaking, performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation. They join the program from Albany, New York. Immanuel’s research interests include […]
Nestor Rotsen
Nestor Rotsen is a fashion and multidisciplinary artist. He joins the program from Moscow, Russia. The main area of interest for Nestor’s work is based on the social and political […]
Jina Rishmawi
Jina Rishmawi is a peace activist and innovator. She joins the program from Palestine, Beit Sahour—the Shepherds Fields—in particular. Jina’s research interests include urban planning, nonviolent resistance, and peacebuilding.
Aya Rebai
Aya Rebai is an architect, scenographer, and a cultural manager. She joins the program from Tunisia. Having worked on a variety of artistic and educational projects in Tunisia, Aya’s own […]
Mariia Pankova
Mariia Pankova is a multimedia artist and documentary filmmaker. She joins the program from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Maria’s research interests center around regional variations of artistic identities and practices as well […]
Luka Gotsiridze
Luka Gotsiridze is a researcher, documentarian, and digital content creator. He joins the program from Georgia, by way of Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. His research interests include religion and […]
Anastasia Dzutstsati
Anastasia Dzutstsati is a journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist. Born in Moscow, Russia, they join the program by way of New York City. Anastasia’s research interests focus on the […]
Raneem Ayyad
Raneem Ayyad is a multidisciplinary researcher, architect, and visual artist. She joins the program from Palestine. Her research focuses on the intersections between the built environment and heritage, with an […]
Anas Alkhatib
Anas Alkhatib is an architect, dancer, and spatial researcher. He joins the program from Palestine. Anas’s practice focuses on spatial violence documentation, architectural visualization, and cartography. He is the founder […]
The White Pube
Faustin Linyekula
Dancer, choreographer, director, storyteller, Faustin Linyekula lives in Kisangani, DRC. He is the founder of the Studios Kabako (2001), a space dedicated to dance, visual theatre, music and film, providing […]