Anthropology
Associate Professor
Archaeology, osteology, ethnicity, body adornment, social complexity; Andean South America.
Deborah.Blom@uvm.edu (802) 656-2932
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success • Associate Professor
Linguistic anthropology; material culture and museum anthropology; economic anthropology; Sign Languages; advertising and media; Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Transcarpathia.
jennifer.dickinson@uvm.edu (802) 656-0903
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice
teresa.mares@uvm.edu (802) 656-5706
Associate Professor
Sociocultural anthropology; medical and psychological anthropology; cultural aspects of health, healing, and health care; global health; aging societies and social change; aging in family and community context, productive aging, caregiving; research design and methods; China, North America.
Jeanne.Shea@uvm.edu (802) 656-3181
Henderson Harris Fellow Anthropology
Anthropologies of Media, Race, and Gender; Colorblindness, Post-racialism, and Afrofuturism discourses; Black Feminism; Media Production and Distribution; Gender and Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Cultural Studies
Marlaina.Martin@uvm.eduArt and Art History
Classics
Economics
Mark J. Zwynenburg Green and Gold Professor of Financial History • Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics, money & banking and U.S. economic history.
jane.knodell@uvm.edu (802) 656-0189
Education and Social Services
Associate Professor of Social Work
- Adult learning
- Diversity, access and equity
- Human rights
- Immigrant issues
- Leadership
- Organizational development
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science
- Adult development and aging
- Friendships
- Sexual and gender identities
Professor of Education • Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies in Education
- Philosophy of education
- Gender and sexuality studies in education
- Queer, transgender, and community-based pedagogies
Lecturer of Education • Program Coordinator, Secondary Education Master of Arts in Teaching
- Critical literacies
- Young adult literature
- Social justice education
- Queer theory and pedagogy
- Experiences of academic mothers
English
Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor • Carnegie Fellow
African-American and 20th-Century American literature, critical theory, race and ethnicity in literature, Women's studies
Emily.Bernard@uvm.edu (802) 656-3423
Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Teaching Assistants
Rhetorical theory; composition pedagogy; Feminist rhetorics, historiographies, and pedagogies; Queer theory and studies; digital rhetorics; archival theory
Jean.Bessette@uvm.edu
Professor
U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism
John.Gennari@uvm.edu (802) 656-3435
Professor • Chair of the English Department
19th-Century American literature, African-American literature, critical theory, Women's studies
Mary.Kete@uvm.edu (802) 656-3839
Professor of English and Film Studies
Film and media theory, representations of gender and race, violence in film and on television, Women directors, documentary film/video, Feminist theory, psychoanalytic cultural theory and Marxism.
Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
American literature, race and ethnicity in U.S. literature and culture, Women in literature
Deborah.Noel@uvm.edu
Professor
19th and 20th-century American literature, LGBT literature, critical theory, Feminist theory, Queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, and narrative.
Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Renaissance, Shakespeare, 17th-century British, Bible as literature, critical theory, Women's studies
lisa.schnell@uvm.edu (802) 656-8627
Professor • Director of The Buckham Overseas Study Program
Post Colonialism, Caribbean anglophone, 20th-century British literature, Marxist theory
Helen.Scott@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Beowulf, Medieval literature, Tolkien studies, sex and gender identity studies
Christopher.Vaccaro@uvm.edu (802) 656-1221
Associate Professor
Asian American literature & culture, African American literature & culture comparative race studies, detective fiction, 20th-Century American literature, cultural studies
Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu
Lecturer
Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, Women’s & Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Theory, Archival Theory, Community Engagement & Advocacy
Emily.Lederman@uvm.eduEnvironmental Studies
Associate Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Environmental health, Community based research, Environmental policy, Natural resources, Arctic environment and health, Environmental health social movements, Environmental justice
bindu.panikkar@uvm.edu (802) 656-5877French and Italian
Geography
Professor
Urban social/cultural geography, focusing on critical historical geographies of childhood. Using and writing about qualitative research, ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, and other methods to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to socially and economically marginalized groups.
Meghan.Cope@uvm.edu
Distinguished Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences
Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont
Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146
Associate Professor
Feminist political ecology, geography, cultural anthropology and STSS;
Critical development, NGO, sustainability and animal studies;
Digital geographies and natures
German and Russian
Linguisics
Nursing and Health Sciences
Philosophy
Professor
Ethics, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism and the discussion of the interplay between feminism and Confucianism.
Sin-yee.Chan@uvm.edu (802) 656-3135
Political Science
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science • Professor (2000)
Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics; research interests include democratization, political economy and women in politics.
Caroline.Beer@uvm.edu (802) 656-8384
Psychological Science
Religion
Associate Professor • Director of Global and Regional Studies
Religions in Africa & the African Diaspora, Religion & Art, Religion, Music, & Sound, Religion and Health, Bodies, and Gender
vicki.brennan@uvm.edu (802) 656-9301
Sociology
Professor • Department of Sociology
Inequality and differential vulnerability in floods, hurricanes, and other disaster events, Disaster studies, Children and youth, Family, Qualitative methodology, Service learning
Alice.Fothergill@uvm.edu (802) 656-2127
Professor
classical sociological theory, feminist social and political theory, deviance, gender, qualitative research methods
Eleanor.Miller@uvm.edu
Associate Professor and Chair
Quantitative research methods, sociology of reproduction, family demography, sociology of Latin American societies.
Jennifer.Strickler@uvm.edu (802) 656-5453
Spanish
Theatre and Dance
Assistant Professor • Resident Director
Acting; directing; applied theatre; performance studies
Zeina.Salame@uvm.eduHistory
Professor • Associate Dean for Student Success
Modern Britain and the British Empire, Gender and Sexuality.
Paul.Deslandes@uvm.eduProfessor • Coordinator of Transfer Affairs, Study Abroad
U.S. social, U.S. women, gender politics.
Melanie.Gustafson@uvm.edu (802) 656-4422
