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 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 international 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 Greece, where students were able to conduct excavation work on an archaeological site in the Cyclades. This trip, funded by BGC, forms a meaningful capstone to the first year of object study through extraordinary access to collections and first-hand experience with fieldwork.

Both MA and PhD students are eligible throughout their programs for funding to support research. MA students may apply for money for attending academic conferences and for funding Qualifying Paper research. Doctoral students may apply for money for conferences and to support dissertation research. MA students may also apply for competitive funding for help with travel and accommodation costs related to internship experiences, many of which are outside of New York and some are international.