Research at BGC

Alongside of the Seminar Series and Symposia, BGC has established several long-term relationships designed to create spheres in which institutional and individual collaborative projects could be undertaken.

Our Cultural Sciences Campus connects the BGC with leading global institutions in our neighborhood: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York Historical Society, American Museum of Natural History and Frick Collection. The Consortium for American Material Culture was created by the as a think-tank for discussing the practice and future of material culture studies.  The Trehan Research Fund in Arts of the Islamic World was established by a gift of Ravi and Seran Trehan in 2007 and sponsors lectures, seminars and panel discussions.

A fellowship program, including a stipendiary post-doctoral fellow and non-stipendiary Visiting Scholars, represents a vision of BGC as a research community.

Giving students an opportunity to create their own research culture is very important, and is reflected in our generous support of student research and travel, as well as an annual graduate student symposium.