Bard Graduate Center is an international community of scholars, and we encourage our students to think globally. There are a number of exciting opportunities for research travel during your time in the program.
Our Bard Travel Program, a week-long faculty-led international study trip that takes place at the end of the first year of the MA program, has taken students to a wide range of destinations. Recent trips have been to Paris, where BGC partners with the Ecole du Louvre for a week’s worth of collections and site visits as well as seminars, and to Venice, where students explored the important role glass played in the history of that city. Previous destinations have included Berlin, London, and even the opportunity to do archaeological fieldwork in Greece. This trip, funded by BGC, forms a meaningful capstone to the first year of object study through extraordinary access to collections, curators, and makers.
Both MA and PhD students are eligible throughout their programs for funding to support research travel. MA students may apply for funding to allow crucial site visits for their Qualifying Paper research, and also for support in presenting their work at academic conferences. Doctoral students may apply for support for dissertation research and for conference presentations. MA students may also apply for competitive funding for travel and accommodation costs related to internship experiences outside of New York.
