Identity | Middlebury

2010s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Identity

To Hide and Be Seen

2020s, Language Schools, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

Growing Abenaki Culture

WCAX profiled the efforts of the Abenaki Language School to preserve language and culture, in addition to developing more visual and audio media.

2000s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Experience, Identity

Kate Speer Fisher ’09.5 holds nothing back in sharing her mental health journey through misdiagnoses, hospitalizations, friendships, and the help of “fluff-bombing” dogs on the podcast Depresh Mode with John Moe.

Black and white photo of four young women seated around a protest sign, which reads "Here I am Mom." There are two symbols side-by-side that incorporate the symbol for Venus/women and a peace sign.

1970s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

1970s Lesbian Life

Browse more than 1,500 images from the Bee Ottinger ’70 Lesbian Collection, which is now available online. Ottinger documented life in the early ’70s at the Lesbian House, a community in Los Angeles for queer women rejected by their families.

Students dancing to hip hop music in McCullough

2020s, Middlebury College, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Identity, Students

Bars, Beats, Moves, Art

Jordan Saint-Louis ’24 created a short documentary featuring the various artists who came to Middlebury’s hip-hop symposium in March.

Vermont dirst road at sunset with mountains

Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty, Identity

After Moving to the Country

Geography professor Peter Nelson was a featured guest on a recent episode of the WBUR podcast On Point focusing on big-city dwellers who increasingly leave for small towns and suburbs.

Photo of Kahari Blue looking outside looking up into the camera with a green grass background

Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

Hey, Future Producer

Kahari Blue ’19 joins the 2023 cohort of the Theatre Producers of Color education program, Producing 101.

To photos of Ishmael Houston-Jones dancing: One from the present and one from when he was younger.

Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

Dance, Conflict, Transformation

Renowned choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones led the first in a new series of community workshops entitled “Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict.”

2020s, Middlebury College, Experience, Identity, Students

Taco Entrepreneurs

A new passion for street food led Ajani Wilson ’24.5 and his friend Jonah Roberts ’24 to found their late-night taco stand Side Pocket.

A Middlebury student studies microscopic foraminifera in Professor Allison Jacobel’s laboratory at Middlebury College

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Access, Equity & Justice, Identity, Science & Tech

Inclusive Excellence Grant

Middlebury is one of 104 colleges and universities to receive a six-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support initiatives that foster more inclusive and equitable introductory education in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math.