Office of Advancement

President Laurie L. Patton welcomes alumni back to campus.

All alumni welcome! Stop by to celebrate Homecoming with fellow alumni and enjoy some food and fall refreshments.

Middlebury Alumni Association event.

Closed to the Public.

Seniors, why do you love Midd? Swing by the Davis Library on Valentine’s Day between 10:00 am and noon to make a donation to your Senior Class Gift and get some love in return (or at least some candy and raffle tickets!).

Paratexts: What they are and what they can teach us about Arabic literature in translation

Social Sniffers: Decoding smell in ants and unlighted fireflies

Smell is the most important sense in the life of an insect. It drives critical behaviors such as foraging for food, finding a mate, and locating an egg-laying site. But ants living in a colony also need to communicate with their sisters! And some fireflies have gone to the “dark side” and no longer produce dazzling courtship displays at night. Our current research fueled by Middlebury students aims to understand how these powerful sensory systems evolved.

Who’s Responsible for Our Health? The limits of public health paternalism.

Trauma and the Brain: How extraordinary events change how we look at the world

Of the many commodities carried on Dutch East and West India Company ships in the 17th and 18th centuries, textiles were by far the most numerous. Not only valuable trade items, textiles were also potent signifiers in an increasingly global world, where clothing played a critical role in shaping identities in colonial and European circles. Although extant examples of these textiles are scarce, painted images and archival documents hint at their social and economic importance.

Precolonial Ethnic Violence: The roots of Hindu-Muslim conflict in India

Is ethnic violence in the non-Western world a legacy of colonialism or the precolonial period? Professor Verghese evaluates these competing perspectives using the influential case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. He has constructed a new dataset of all conflicts between Hindu and Muslim states from 1000 to 1850 AD and finds that historical violence began around 1700 AD—before the British ruled the subcontinent.