Office Hours:
Thursdays 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. or by appointment

Tim Spears
Professor & Dean of the College
Meeker House 112
Phone: (802) 443 - 3300
Email: spears@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Harvard University, Ph.D., History of American Civilization, 1989

Yale University, B.A., English, 1980

Selected Publications
  • One Hundred Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995).
  • Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
  • Senior Consulting Editor for the Literature Section of The Encyclopedia of the Midwest, forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2006

Work in Progress
“Spirals: Football and Family History”