Faculty News

Image of two men in front of chalkboard How Students Brought a “Once in a Lifetime” Class to Bennington

Experts on Iranian culture and politics blur the lines between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Image of Maboula Soumahoro Visiting Faculty Member Maboula Soumahoro Appointed to Prestigious Columbia Fellowship

Bennington College is proud to announce that long-time visiting faculty member Maboula Soumahoro will join scholars from around the world for a year-long fellowship at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris starting this fall.

Image of Guggenheim logo Bennington Faculty Member and Alum Awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships

Bennington College Film-Video faculty member Mariam Ghani and Choreographer Liz Lerman ’69 are recipients of the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are among more than 100 Bennington-associated Guggenheim Fellows to have been awarded throughout both organizations’ histories.

Image of Jonas Hassen Khemiri Bennington College Welcomes 2023 Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Winston Foundation Grant funds Spring 2023 class and reading Wednesday, May 17

Image of Susan Sgorbati Solving the Impossible

Through a thought-provoking Q & A, Susan Sgorbati, the Director of Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), reveals a refreshing philosophy and original means of working toward a better world. Interview by Chief Writer Ashley Jowett.