Alumni of the Bard-Smolny Program

Many alumni of the Bard-Smolny program have made Russia part of their professional careers. After finishing their B.A. degree, students have gone on to graduate work in Russian Literature or Russian Studies, some of them at institutions in the Russian Federation. Several have won Fulbright awards to conduct research or teach in Russia; others have worked for American and Russian businesses or non-governmental organizations. One program alumnus has returned to St. Petersburg as resident director of the ACTR program for North American students at the State University. Another worked for the Joseph Brodsky Estate in Massachusetts, cataloguing Brodsky's nonpublished and noncollected works. Alumni report that the language skills and cultural understanding acquired in the Bard-Smolny program were crucial to their later academic and professional success.