Faculty

 
Amy Seidl
Research Scholar in Environmental Studies

Email: aseidl@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
Conservation Biology
Office Hours
Monday
12:30 - 2:30
Wednesday
9:00 - 10:00
and by appointment
Christopher Klyza
Stafford Prof. of Public Policy, Political Science & Envir. Std.
Hillcrest 206
Phone: (802) 443 - 5309
Email: klyza@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. (1990) University of Minnesota; M.S. (1983) Duke University; B.S. (1981) Cornell University
Office Hours
Monday:
2:00-3:30 p.m., Thursday: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
or by appointment
Jon Isham
Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics
Hillcrest 214
Phone: (802) 443 - 3238
Email: jisham@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1999
Web Site
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D., University of Maryland, Assistant Professor (1999); Environmental Economics and Economic Development.
Office Hours
Wednesday: 10-11:30 a.m.
Thursday: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
and by appointment
Marc Lapin
Associate in Science Instruction in ES
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 413
Phone: (802) 443 - 3239
Email: lapin@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
M and W 10-11:30 a.m. and by appointment

Molly S Costanza-Robinson
Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 446
Phone: (802) 443 - 5571
Email: mcostanz@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. Soil, Water and Environmental Science with Analytical Chemistry Minor; University of Arizona, Tucson, 2001.
B.S. with Distinction, Chemistry and German Literature; University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996.
Non-degree, German Language and Literature; Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany; 1994 – 1995.
Office Hours
On Leave - Academic Year 2007-2008
Peter Ryan
Associate Professor of Geology
on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 2557
Email: pryan@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Degrees & Specializations
environmental science, clay mineralogy
Office Hours
Spring 2008:
Monday through Friday by appointment.
Stephen Trombulak
Albert D. Mead Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 373
Phone: (802) 443 - 5439
Email: trombula@middlebury.edu
Web Site
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Degrees & Specializations
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Washington 1983 (Zoology)

B.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1977 (Biology)

Specialization: Conservation Biology

Affiliated Faculty

Office Hours
Mondays & Thursdays,
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Glenn Andres
Professor
Johnson Memorial Building 407A
Phone: (802) 443 - 5226
Email: andres@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
B. Arch., Cornell University, MFA
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome

History of architecture and urbanism, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and 19th and 20th century Europe and America.
Office Hours
Spring 2008:
Monday 1:30-3:30 PM
Wednesday 10:00-11:00 AM
Or by appt.
Vickie Backus
Associate in Science Instruction
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 432
Phone: (802) 443 - 5647
Email: backus@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Vermont 1992 (Zoology)

M.S. Brock University 1985 (Biological Sciences)

B. A. (Hon) McMaster University 1980 (Psychology)

Specialization:
Conservation Genetics
Office Hours
T & Th 2:45-4:00 p.m. & by appt.
David Bain
Lecturer in English & American Literatures
Adirondack House 217
Phone: (802) 443 - 5008
Email: bain@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
B.S., Boston University

Specializations: Creative writing, contemporary literature, environmental journalism.

Office Hours
Tues, Thurs 9:00-9:30 a.m., 12:15-1:00 p.m.
and by appointment
Thomas Beyer
Professor of Russian
FIC Freeman FR3
Phone: (802) 443 - 5536
Email: beyer@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
Andrey Bely, Dostoevsky, 20th Century Russian literature, Russian language pedagogy.
Office Hours
TR: 8:30-10:30am and by appt.
Daniel Brayton
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Munroe Hall 114
Phone: (802) 443 - 3264
Email: dbrayton@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Williams College; M.A., University of North Carolina; Ph.D. Cornell University

Specializations: Tudor and Stuart Drama; Shakespeare; Literary and Cultural Theory; Maritime Literature
Office Hours
On leave academic year 2007-08
Pieter Broucke
Associate Professor & Department Chair
Johnson Memorial Building 413
Phone: (802) 443 - 5227
Email: broucke@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Professional Degree in Architecture, Higher Institute for Architecture, Ghent, Belgium
M.A. Archaeology, Center for Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
Ph.D., History of Art, Yale University
Office Hours
By appointment only
Alison Byerly
Professor of English
Old Chapel 202
Phone: (802) 443 - 5735
Email: byerly@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Wellesley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Specializations: Victorian Literature; Gender Studies; Travel Literature; Literature and the Environment
Office Hours
Tuesday & Wednesday
1:30 to 4:15
Ray Coish
Professor of Geology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 426
Phone: (802) 443 - 5423
Email: coish@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Degrees & Specializations
igneous petrology, geochemistry
Office Hours
Mon. 2:30-4:00 PM,
Tues. 1:30-3:00 PM,
Wed. 10:30-11:45 AM
Fri. 10:30-11:45 AM
Matt Dickerson
Professor
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 636
Phone: (802) 443 - 5460
Fax: 802-443-2072
Email: dickerso@middlebury.edu
Web Site
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Dartmouth College
M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
Office Hours
on leave spring term
John Elder
College Professor
Hillcrest 216
Phone: (802) 443 - 5281
Email: elder@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Pomona College; Ph.D. Yale University

Specializations: Romantic & Modern Poetry; American Nature Writing; Japan's Haiku Tradition; Environmental Studies
Office Hours
Mondays:
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Thursdays:
2:00-3:30 p.m.
& by appointment
Miguel Fernandez
Associate Professor of Spanish
Warner Hall 005
Phone: (802) 443 - 5792
Fax:  509-561-0897
Email: fernande@middlebury.edu
Web Site
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Office Hours
On Associate Status during Spring 2008 semester
Rebecca Gould
Associate Professor of Religion
Hillcrest 209
Phone: (802) 443 - 2548
Email: rgould@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Harvard and Radcliffe College;
M.A., Emory University;
A.M., Harvard University;
Ph.D., Harvard University
Office Hours
Mon, Wed 11-12

Thurs 10:15-11:15
Heidi Grasswick
Associate Professor
Twilight Hall 312
Phone: (802) 443 - 5662
Email: grasswic@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
A.B. University of Victoria;
M.A. Dalhousie University;
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy.
Office Hours
Monday
2:30 - 4:00
RAJ 107
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:30
LIB CAFE
and by appointment
Nadia R. Horning
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Robert A. Jones '59 House 107
Phone: (802) 443 - 3428
Email: nhorning@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. (2004), M.A. (1998) Cornell University; M.A. (1992), B.A. (1990) George Mason University
Office Hours
Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon and 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon and 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Jeff Howarth
Visiting Instructor in Geography
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 314
Phone: (802) 443 - 5502
Email: jhowarth@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
Tuesday: 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
Anne K. Knowles
Associate Professor of Geography
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 328
Phone: (802) 443 - 3434
Email: aknowles@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: Since 2002
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Degrees & Specializations
B.A. in English, Duke University, 1979; M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987 and 1993.

Historical geography, historical GIS, 19th century U.S. immigration and industrialization.
Office Hours
Spring 2008:
Tuesdays: 12:00-1;15pm;
Fridays: 10:00am- 11:15am
R Matthew Landis
Associate in Science Instruction in Biology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 323
Phone: (802) 443 - 3484
Email: rlandis@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Degrees:
Ph.D. Darmouth College 1999 (Ecology)

B.S. Ursinus College 1992 (Biology)
Office Hours
Spring 2008:
Wednesdays 10:00-11:00am,
Thursdays: 11:00am-12:00pm
Andrea Lloyd
Associate Professor of Biology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 372
Phone: (802) 443 - 3165
Email: lloyd@middlebury.edu
Web Site
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Degrees & Specializations
Plant Ecology
Office Hours
Thursday1 to 3 p.m.
Pat Manley
Professor of Geology; Assoc Dean, Undergraduate Research
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 427
Phone: (802) 443 - 5430
Email: manley@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Degrees & Specializations
marine geology, geophysics oceanography

Office Hours
on leave academic year
Tamar Mayer
Professor of Geography
on leave academic year
Years at Midd: Since 1985
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Degrees & Specializations
B.A. University of Haifa, Israel;
M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Office Hours
Tuesday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Thursday: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Michelle McCauley
Associate Professor of Psychology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 274
Phone: (802) 443 - 5720
Email: mccauley@middlebury.edu
 
William McKibben
Scholar-in-Residence in Environmental Studies
Hillcrest 205
Phone: (802) 443 - 3489
Email: wmckibbe@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
Global Change
Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday
2:45-4:00 P.M.
& by appointment
Don Mitchell
Lecturer in Film and Media and English.
on leave spring
Phone: (802) 443 - 5844
Email: mitchell@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Swarthmore College

Specializations: Fiction; Screenwriting; Sheepfarming
Office Hours
M 2:30-4:00
F 2:30-4:30

and by appointment
Thomas Moran
Associate Professor of Chinese; Department Chair
Voter Hall 106
Phone: (802) 443 - 5870
Email: moran@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: At Middlebury since 1994; affiliated with Middlebury’s Program in Environmental Studies since 2004
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Degrees & Specializations

B.A.: Syracuse University, 1980

M.A.: Cornell University, 1988

Ph.D.: Cornell University, 1994

Office Hours
On leave academic year 2007-2008
Kathryn Morse
Associate Professor of History
on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 2436
Email: kmorse@middlebury.edu
Web Site
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Degrees & Specializations
B.A., Yale University, 1988; M.A., Utah State University, 1992; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997.

Environmental History and
American History
Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wedneasday, Thursday: 1:30-2:30 p.m. or by appointment
Nicholas Z Muller
Assistant Professor of Economics
Hillcrest 215
Phone: (802) 443 - 5918
Email: nmuller@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Office Hours
Tuesday 11 to 12
Friday 11 to 12
and by appointment
Jeffrey S Munroe
Assistant Professor of Geology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 414
Phone: (802) 443 - 3446
Email: jmunroe@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Degrees & Specializations
geomorphology
Office Hours
Monday: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Peter (Geography) Nelson
Department Chair; Associate Professor of Geography
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 313
Phone: (802) 443 - 3247
Email: pbnelson@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: Since 1999
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Degrees & Specializations
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1993, Geography and Environmental Studies; M.A., University of Washington, 1996, Geography; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1999, Geography.
Office Hours
SPRING 2008
Mon & Wed 11:15-12:15
Tues 1:30-3:30
and by appointment
Charles Nunley
Associate Professor of French
Le Chateau 115
Phone: (802) 443 - 5240
Email: nunley@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Associate Professor of French (1988)
A.B., M.A., Middlebury College
Ph.D., Princeton University
Office Hours
SPRING 2008
Wednesday 11:00-12:15
Thursday 3:00-4:30
and by appointment
Andrea Olsen
Professor of Dance
Mahaney Center for the Arts 201
Phone: (802) 443 - 5687
Email: olsen@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
MFA University of Utah, Dance Choreography

Publications:
Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
www.upne.com

Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide
www.upne.com
Office Hours
T & Th 1:30-3:00pm & by appt.
Jay Parini
D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing
Munroe Hall 118
Phone: (802) 443 - 5042
Email: parini@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Director of Creative Writing Program
A.B., Lafayette College; B. Phil., Ph.D., University of St. Andrew
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday 1-2:45pm and by appointment. Note: Professor Perry will not hold office hours on March 6th.
Ted Perry
Professor of Film and Media Culture and Art; Fletcher Professor of the Arts.
Wright Memorial Theatre 106
Phone: (802) 443 - 5056
Email: perry@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Baylor University;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Office Hours
Mon., Wed., & Fri.
10:15 - 11:45 AM,
or by appointment
Bob Prigo
Professor of Physics
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 533
Phone: (802) 443 - 5425
Email: prigo@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Graduate, 1966, Laguna Beach High School, Laguna Beach, CA
B.S. Physics, 1970, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
M.S. Physics, 1971, UCSB
Advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy in Physics, UCSB, 1973: Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics
Ph.D. Physics/Education, 1976, UCSBPh.D. UCSB
Office Hours
ON LEAVE SPRING '08
David Rosenberg
Professor of Political Science
Robert A. Jones '59 House 117
Phone: (802) 443 - 5612
Email: rosenber@middlebury.edu
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Office Hours
On Leave Academic Year 07-08
Sallie Sheldon
Professor of Biology
on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 5436
Email: sheldon@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1984 (Ecology)

M.A. SUNY Buffalo 1977 (Fisheries)

B.A. SUNY Buffalo 1974 (Biology)

Specialization: Aquatic Ecology
Office Hours
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Michael J Sheridan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Warner Hall 403
Phone: (802) 443 - 5582
Email: msherida@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday:
4:10-5:00p.m. & by appt. on MTW
Yumna Siddiqi
Associate Professor of English & American Literatures
Warner Hall 401
Phone: (802) 443 - 3473
Email: ysiddiqi@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
2:00-4:00pm
Kathy Skubikowski
Director, CTLR; Assoc. Prof. of English; Asst. Dean for Instruct
Library 225C
Phone: (802) 443 - 5878
Email: skubikow@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Field: English Literature and Language
Thesis Director: E. Talbot Donaldson
Minors: Medieval Studies
Rhetoric and Composition Theory
M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder
Office Hours
On Leave during 2007-2008 Academic Year

David Stoll
Associate Professor of Anthropology
on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 2441
Email: dstoll@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. (1992), Stanford University;
B.A. (1974), University of Michigan.
Office Hours
Office:Warner 502B, x3250. Office Hours: Monday 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m., Tuesday 11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.
Jacob Tropp
Spencer Fellow in African Studies; Assoc. Professor of History
Warner Hall 502B
Phone: (802) 443 - 3250
Email: jtropp@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Haverford College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

African History, Gender in African History, Environmental History of Africa, Southern Africa
Office Hours
Wednesday 10 to 12
Thursday 11 to 12
David P West Jr.
Associate Professor of Geology and Department Chair
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 428
Phone: (802) 443 - 3476
Email: dwest@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Degrees & Specializations
structural geology, metamorphic petrology
Office Hours
Office: FIC CK9, ext. 5758.Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30p.m.-3:00; Wednesday 10:30a.m.-12:00
James West
Professor of Humanities
FIC Cook 9
Phone: (802) 443 - 5758
Email: west@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1995
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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Office Hours
On Leave Spring Term
Kit Wilson
Professor of Humanities
Adirondack House 215
Phone: (802) 443 - 5329
Email: wilson@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
Mon. & Thurs. 1:30 - 3:30 PM,
or by appointment
except some Mondays when committee meetings planned
Rich Wolfson
Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 527
Phone: (802) 443 - 5427
Email: wolfson@middlebury.edu
Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. Dartmouth
Office Hours
Spring 2008:

Mondays: 1:30-3:00pm;
Wednesdays: 1:00-2:30pm;
Thursdays: 10:00-11:30am
Helen Young
Biology Department Chair
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 371
Phone: (802) 443 - 2556
Email: hjyoung@middlebury.edu
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Degrees & Specializations
Degrees:
B.S. with Honors Washington University 1977

Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook 1986 (Ecology and Evolution)

Specialization: Plant Reproductive Biology

Staff

Office Hours
Wednesday 10 - 11:30 a.m.
Friday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
& by appointment
Diane L Munroe
Coordinator for Community Based Environmental Studies
Hillcrest 218
Phone: (802) 443 - 5925
Email: dmunroe@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
Monday through Friday,
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Janet Wiseman
Academic Coordinator
Hillcrest 120
Phone: (802) 443 - 5710
Email: jwiseman@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Nan Jenks-Jay
Dean of Environmental Affairs
Hillcrest 217
Phone: (802) 443 - 5090
Email: jenksjay@middlebury.edu
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