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BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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Department of Research Collections

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Monday–Thursday: 8 am–10:45 pm 
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The BGC Department of Research Collections comprises the Library, Study Collection, and Archive, representing a comprehensive range of diverse research resources across a range of media in support of the advanced scholarly study of material culture. Bringing these three entities together aligns the institution’s collection with its approach to research, which challenges traditional boundaries, centers the object, and emphasizes interdisciplinarity. To learn more about each facet of the DRC, click on the links below.

Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
  • Decentralized Objects: Non-Fungible Tokens in Age of Web 3
    Assis, Michael
  • Templates of Thought: Patterning Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ornament Prints
    De Godoy Lopes, Nicholas
  • Mapping an American Chair Form: The History and Evolution of the Butaca
    De Leon, Christina
  • Fashioning the Identities of Settler Women in Algeria during the 1930s
    Desemerie, Pierre-Jean
  • Bringing Theory to Form: Katherine and Michael McCoy, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Expanded Discourse of Design, 1971–2005
    Fanning, Colin
  • Dance’s Imprint: Choreography of the Visual Avant-Garders
    Folkman, Marjorie
  • A Sense of Emergent Order: Post-Humanistic Ornament, Rhythm, and Possible Futures
    Jenkins, Chika
  • Rocky Utopias: An Archaeology of Jewish Agricultural Collectives in Colorado
    Kadish, Tova
  • Utopian Shores: Visionary Design and Its Limits in the 1960s
    Koehn, Elizabeth
  • Taking Refuge in Print: Immigrant Engravers from the Southern Netherlands in Cologne, 1570–1610
    Lillie, Julia
  • From Kherlen River to Yanjing: Crafts and Cultural Diversity in the Kitan-Liao Empire
    Liu, Boxi
  • The Sized Body: Standardized Sizing Technology and Normalcy in New York Fashion, 1860–1910
    McClendon, Emma
  • The Taste for Marble and Hardstone Objects in France, 1700–1815
    Ripert, Geoffrey
  • A History and Theory of Mending
    Sekules, Kate
  • The Development of Costume Conservation in North America and Britain, 1964-1986
    Scaturro, Sarah
  • Crafting the Brilliant Cut: The Indian Diamond in England, 1650-1750
    Stewart, Courtney
  • Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Patchwork and the Mediation of Settler Colonial Encounters, 1918–Present
    Thompson, Amanda
  • Reassembling George Catlin’s Indian Gallery: Material Culture and the Performance of Ethnographic Realism
    Treier, Leonie
  • Fashion in LIFE, 1936–1972
    Tuite, Rebecca
  • From Obscurity to Celebrity: Zhangzhou Ceramics for Japan
    Yang, Xiaoyi