International and Global Studies’ Global Migration and Diaspora Program presents “Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy” with Justin Gest.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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
Jack Zhang, University of Kansas, is the founder and director of the Trade War Lab, a social science lab dedicated to dual mission of understanding
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
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
New Academic Coordinator will share text and further details in August.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
This is a talk on “human-forest mutualisms” exemplified by small-scale, forest conservation efforts in Mexico’s Yucatán. These efforts link conservation of globally-important forest ecosystems with production of natural, non-timber, forest products (vanilla and honey) that can help support local communities involved in conservation.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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
Screening of the new Rolling Stone Films documentary with the protagonist and film team. Q&A session to follow.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Book Launch for Christopher Klyza’s “Building the American Green State: The States, the Federal Government, and Intercurrence, 1800-2000” (2026, MIT Press).
This book traces the development of environmental agencies at the U.S. state and federal level and explores how these aspects of the green state frequently clash with one another, leading to significant policy challenges.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “A World Without Secrets: International Politics in an Era of Eroding Secracy” with Erik Lin-Greenberg.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
2024, Maria Pevchikh and Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released Traitors, a provocative documentary series asking how Russia’s democratic opening of the 1990s ended in Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The film places much of the blame on the political and economic elites surrounding Boris Yeltsin, focusing on corruption, privatization and the rise of the oligarchs, the controversial 1996 presidential election, and ultimately the choice of Putin as Yeltsin’s successor.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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
Professor Christopher McGrory Klyza published Building the Green State: The States, the Federal Government, and Intercurrence, 1800-2000 with MIT Press.
Assistant Professor Caileigh Glenn and Jon Pevehouse have published “International Dimensions of Democratization” in World Politics.
Assistant Professor Margaret Hanson and Gaukhar Baltabayeva have published “Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Explaining first‑wave Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus” in the Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies.
Assistant Professor Margaret Hanson and colleagues won the Heinz I. Eulau Award for “Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy,” published in Perspectives on Politics.
Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Fram published “A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism” in American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture.
Associate Professor Gary Winslett has published “Digital Trade in Services: Globalization’s Exciting New Frontier” in the edited volume Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths About The Global Economy and Its Fundamental Humanity.
Associate Professor Ajay Verghese published “The Qualitative Metamorphosis” in Comparative Politics.
Associate Professor Ajay Verghese has won a three-year Fulbright Flex Grant to support his research in India.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and Ilkim Buke Okyar published “Teaching Israel-Palestine Across the Atlantic: Addressing Affective Polarization and Dehumanization through Dialogic Education” in PS: Politics and Society.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and Aylin Aydin-Cakir published “Constitution-making in polarized transitions: The role of civil society in the establishment of independent judiciary” in International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has published “How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn” in the Journal of Democracy.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and colleagues have published “Competitive yet unfair: 2023 elections and authoritarian resilience in Turkey” in South European Society and Politics.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has published “‘Music Gonna Teach’: Decolonizing IR Through a Musical Exploration of Knowledge” in the Review of International Studies.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George and colleagues Guntram Herb and Sujata Moorti have published the Middlebury Atlas of Globalization: A Concise, Visual Guide to Our Globalized World.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has received a five-year NSF/UVM Study of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) Grant.
Professor Jessica Teets, T Hildebrandt, R. Hasmath, JYJ Hsu, and CL Hsu published “What Makes a ‘Bad Citizen’? Understanding Non-Participation in Philanthropic and Voluntaristic Activities in China” in Journal of Asian Public Policy.
Professor Jessica Teets has been awarded the Guang Biao Distinguished Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, a position she will hold for three years.
Professor Jessica Teets and her colleague Xiang Gao have published “China ushers in a new era governance framework” in East Asia Forum Quarterly.
Professor Jessica Teets and colleagues have published “The Civic Participation in China Survey: Key Trends in Philanthropic and Voluntary Activities” in the Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies.
Professor Jessica Teets and colleagues have published the dataset “Civic Participation in China Surveys – 3 waves of surveys from China available with questions focused on volunteering, donating, and perspectives on citizenship.”
Professor Sarah Stroup published “Global development in crisis: responding to America’s retreat” in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) Briefing Paper.
Professor Sarah Stroup published “Information bubbles and US foreign policy: the illusion of public support” in FIIA Comment.
Professor Sarah Stroup has published “Humanitarian Organizations” in the Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality.
Professor Sarah Stroup has been named Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs during her leave year, and has support from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation and the Jeffrey R. Cason Memorial Field Work Fund.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have published “The Advantages of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in an Age of Machine Learning” in PLOS ONE.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward, and A. Maurits van der Veen published “The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration, and the Case of ‘Woke’’ in Political Studies.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, Gyula Zsombok, and A. Maurits van der Veen published “Social Proximity, Discursive Opportunity Structures, and the Diffusion of the Culture Wars: The Case of ‘Woke’ in France” in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have been awarded the International Studies Association International Communications Section Best Book Award for Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective.
