MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Courtesy of the president’s office, here’s a look at recent accomplishments and publications by Middlebury’s faculty.
Burke Rochford (Sociology-Anthropology and Religion) has published a book, entitled Hare Krishna Transformed. The book was published by New York University Press in 2007. Also in 2007, Rochford published two chapters: the first is titled “Social Building Blocks of New Religious Movements: Organization and Leadership,” and appears in Teaching New Religious Movements, edited by David G. Bromley and published by Oxford University Press; the second is titled “The Sociology of New Religious Movements” and appears in American Sociology of Religion: Histories, edited by Anthony J. Blasi and published by Brill as part of their Religion and the Social Order series.
Jonathan Isham (Economics) has published a book, Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, edited by Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, Washington: Island Press. The book includes an introduction by Bill McKibben (Environmental Studies).
Timothy Billings (English and American Literatures) recently published a book, Stèles / 古今碑錄, by Victor Segalen: A Facsimile Critical Edition, co-authored with Christopher Bush (Wesleyan University Press, 2007); as well as two book chapters: “Untranslation Theory: The Nestorian Stele and the Jesuit Illustration of China,” Sinographies: Writing China, ed. Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven Yao. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 89-114; and “Masculine in Case: Grammar Lessons and Gender Identity in Hic Mulier and The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Class, Boundary and Social Discourse in the Renaissance, ed. Alexander C. Y. Huang, I-Chun Wang, and Mary Theis. (Taiwan: National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007), 87-106. Billings also was awarded an M.A. degree in Sinology in December 2007 from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, for his leave-year work on a Mellon New Directions Fellowship.
Justin Stearns (Religion) has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor, having completed his Ph.D. at Princeton.
Kevin Moss (Russian) has been named a Lillian S. Robinson Scholar by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in Montreal. This award provides additional support for his 2007-2008 leave and funds a short-term residency at the Institute this spring where he will continue work on a project titled, Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia.
Jacob Tropp (History) has had a book chapter published. It is entitled, “Dogs, Poison and the Meaning of Colonial Intervention in the Transkei, South Africa,” in Lance van Sittert and Sandra Swart, eds., Canis Africanis: A Dog History of South Africa, Human-Animal Studies Series (Brill Publishers, October 2007).
Alison Byerly (English and American Literatures) has had an article published. “ ‘A Prodigious Map Beneath His Feet’: Virtual Travel and the Panoramic Perspective” appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts Vol. 29, Numbers 2-3, Special Issue: Global Formations Past and Present (June/September 2007): 151-69.
Pat Manley and Tom Manley (both Geology) and colleagues from Buffalo State College and SUNY-Buffalo were awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers and other oceanographic equipment to support research involving large lakes and rivers. The first projects will focus on the Buffalo River, a tributary to Lake Erie. In the future the equipment will also be used to support research on Lake Champlain.
Ted Perry (Film & Media Culture) has published an essay, “Impersonation of the True Self,” in The Psychoanalytic Review (December 2007).
Kathryn Kramer (English & American Literatures) was awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship by the Bogliasco Foundation to spend a month at the Liguria Study Center in Italy during her 2007-2008 leave. During this residency she will be working on a project titled The Rise and Fall of the Republic of West Delphi. She describes this book as “a memoir, with forays into fiction” about a village community in Vermont during the 1980s, “an exploration of the meaning of place and its relationship to community.”
Jonathan Miller-Lane (Teacher Education Program) recently published two articles: “Civic Multicultural Competence: Searching for Common Ground in Democratic Education” in Theory and Research in Social Education, 2007, Vol. 35(4) (lead author with Howard and Halagao), and “The Loyal Opposition & The Practice of Aikido” in The Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 2007, Vol 16, 1.
Leger Grindon (Film and Media Culture) has had a chapter essay published. “The Quiet Man and the Boxing Film: Allusions and Influences,” in John Ford In Focus, edited by Kevin L. Stoehr and Michael C. Connolly (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2008).