Throughout the history of the United States, Americans have created a complex set of meanings pertaining to the environments (wild, pastoral, urban, marine) in which they live. From European-Native ...

Utilizing a $10,000 Projects for Peace award, Valentina Dereani ’27 is advancing the preservation of biodiversity while empowering small-scale farmers. During the summer after her first year at ...

What is the origin of religion? How can we begin to understand the forceful and continuous presence of religion in human history? What do we make of individuals who claim to hear God or interact with ...

In this course we will examine biographies, both written and filmed, of several American presidents, including those who are well known – Madison, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt – and those who are ...

This week, Middlebury College’s Center for Careers and Internships (CCI), in collaboration with the History Department, is hosting the annual History Field Guide, an event designed to showcase the ...

Undergraduates Nataliya Layer, Lydia Miller, Liana Moldovanu and Anja Ree spent six weeks in Eastern Europe documenting the human toll of war through personal narratives. The emotions compounded with ...

Jason Martel is professor of language education at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Prior to joining the Institute in 2013, he earned his M.A. in French from the Middlebury College ...

Olga Sanchez Saltveit is Artistic Director Emerita for Milagro, the Pacific Northwest’s premier Latinx arts & culture organization, following her service as the company’s Artistic Director from ...

I taught English as a Second Language (ESL/EFL) for a variety of schools beginning in 1976 with my Peace Corps service in Morocco. Before coming to the Institute I was Assistant Director of ESL ...

B.A. Smith College; Ph.D. University of California Berkeley Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary research focused on the intersection of human geography, conservation science, environmental politics, ...

Lyuba Zarsky concluded early that the best game in life is changing the world. In the 1970s, she co-founded the University Without Walls in Berkeley, whose motto was “the world is our classroom.” She ...

Laura Burian, Professor of Chinese/English translation and interpretation and C.V. Starr Professor in Linguistics and Language, earned her MA in Chinese Translation and Interpretation program at the ...