Upcoming Events

  • Weekly Politics Luncheon

    Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

    Virtual Middlebury

    Open to the Public
  • Weekly Politics Luncheon

    Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • McDonald’s and the Opening and Closing of Russia? with special guest Kristy Ironside

    The opening of the first McDonald’s in Moscow on January 31, 1990, was widely seen as proof of the Soviet Union opening up to the outside world after years of Cold War isolation. McDonald’s decision to pull out of Russia within months of its full-scale attack on Ukraine in early 2022 was thus naturally seen as the end of an era. This talk will look at how we got from Point A to Point B. Why did Soviet leaders agree to allow McDonald’s in, first as a joint venture with the Moscow city soviet, and what did they hope to get out of it?

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

  • Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: reflections on the prevalence, prevention of, and policy response to this public health and human rights crisis, with Sophie Morse, Philip R. Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and Women’s Health Policy Researcher.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Weekly Politics Luncheon

    Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Putin’s Wars : How once the West’s Sweetheart got us into WWIII

    Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

    — a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities

    Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Weekly Politics Luncheon

    Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

News and Publications

Assistant Professor Gary Winslett has published Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs with the University of Michigan Press.

Assistant Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has published Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia (Cambridge University Press).

Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has published her article “The AKP and Stealth Islamization in Turkey” in Turkish Studies.

Associate Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has won a Whiting Fellowship to support his sabbatical project “Decolonizing IR through Pan-African Political Theory.”

Associate Professoro Ajay Verghese has won a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. to work on completing his second book manuscript on Hinduism and politics in contemporary India.

Professor Jessica Teets has been selected to serve on the advisory board for the National Committee of US-China Relations.

Professor Jessica Teets and her colleague Xiang Gao have published “Citizen Participation in China,” in The Oxford International Handbook of Public Administration for Social Policy: Promising Practices and Emerging Challenges.

Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen have published Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective with Oxford University Press. It was named the winner of the International Studies Association International Communication Best Book Award.

Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, Middlebury College graduate Amelia Pollard and A. Maurits van der Veen have published “Looking in the Mirror: US and French Coverage of Black Lives Matter in France” in International Journal of Press/Politics 

Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleagues Sora Jun, Rosalind Chow, and A. Maurits van der Veen have published “Chronic Frames of Social Inequality: How Mainstream Media Frame Race, Gender, and Wealth Inequality” in PNAS 

Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, James B. Jermain Professor of Political Economy and International Law Jeffrey Carpenter, and A. Maurits van der Veen have published “Assessing the Effect of Media Tone on Attitudes toward Muslims: Evidence from an Online Experiment” in Politics and Religion. It received an Honorable Mention for the Ted Jelen Best Journal Article award.

Professor Bert Johnson has published “Third Parties in Vermont,” in Richard Davis, Ed., Beyond Donkeys and Elephants: Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020.

Professor Sarah Stroup has published “Humanitarian Organizations: behemoths and butterflies,” in Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, Silke Roth, Bandana Purkahastha, and Tobias Denskus, editors (Edward Elgar, February 2024): 108-24 (link).

Professor Sarah Stroup and colleague Sarah Bush have published “Stay Off My Field: policing boundaries in human rights and democracy promotion,” International Theory 15:2 (July 2023): 263-290. DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000161

Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor Allison Stanger was selected as the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress and SAGE Sara Miller McCune Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University for the 2020–21 academic year.

Russell J. Leng ‘60 Professor Allison Stanger has published “Edward Snowden, Donald Trump and the Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing,” in National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On.

Visiting Professor Natalie Chwalisz has published Beating the Gun—One Conversation at a Time? Evaluating the Impact of DC’s “Cure the Streets” Public Health Intervention Against Gun Violence. Crime & Delinquency (2023), 00111287231160735.

The work of the Engaged Listening Project (co-founded by Professor Sarah Stroup, now directed by Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu) is featured in a new Chronicle of Higher Education report, Fostering Students’ Free Expression: how colleges can support and encourage tough conversations (September 2023) (link).