GREETINGS FROM THE DEAN
I'm nearing the anniversary of my second year as Dean of UVM's College of Arts and Sciences. The
experience this year was quite different from last: I have my sea legs. The College is now
comfortably settled into its new home at 438 College, and, the staff will, if it ever stops
raining, soon begin to enjoy the new wicker furniture that now graces the building's porch. I
now understand and appreciate the round of traditions that have emerged over time and give the
College and the University their distinctive Green Mountain flavor, and have begun some of my own.
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HONORS DAY
Marsh Professor William Darity Gives College Honors Day Address
William "Sandy" Darity was on campus for a week starting April 15 as
part of his initiation into the Marsh Professor-at-Large program.
Professor Darity, who holds academic positions in Economics and
African American Studies at both Duke University and the University of
North Carolina, gave the address on College Honors Day. Darity
encouraged graduating students to reflect on their experience of the
learning environment at the University of Vermont. If, he said, their
experience was one that provided an intellectual climate that fosters
intellectual debate and diversity of ideas, then "speak up and respond
to attacks on universities' freedom to pursue intellectual inquiry."
Without that support, he argued, the space for real intellectual
inquiry and debate that make institutions like UVM relevant to the
problems of the 21st century will narrow.
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SENIOR AMANDA DALY: BREAKING NEW GROUND
What does an Environmental Sciences major working on an honors thesis in UVM's College of
Arts and Sciences do over Spring Break? Why, travel to Missoula, Montana, of course, to
measure metabolic rates of insects. Not a typical spring break, but undergraduates doing
ground-breaking research with UVM faculty are as natural as maple syrup from Vermont!
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STUDENT MUSICIANS VISIT SLOVAKIA
It didn't start out well. Within minutes of checking in at Boston's Logan International Airport,
one of the 20 members of the UVM Concert Band had lost her camera. "I wasn't sure that was a good
omen," reflected the group's conductor, Associate Professor D. Thomas Toner. "Little did I know
that would be the only...
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ZVOLENSKY PRESENTED AWARD FROM AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Michael J. Zvolensky, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, was presented the 2007
David Shakow Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association Division 12, Society
of Clinical Psychology, for outstanding early career contributions to the science and practice of
clinical psychology.
The David Shakow Early Career Award is given for contributions to the science and practice of
Clinical Psychology. The awardee is a person who has received a doctorate within the past seven
years and who has made noteworthy contributions both to the science and to the practice of
Clinical Psychology.
Professor Zvolensky's research focuses on vulnerability processes involved with the development
and maintenance of anxiety disorders. He is particularly interested in understanding the role of
addictive behaviors in risk for anxiety problems, and the role of anxiety risk factors for poor
outcomes in changing addictive behaviors like smoking.
CANADIAN STUDIES PROGRAM MAKES THE NEWS
Paul Martin, Director of the Canadian Studies Program
This past October, thirty-five students from Paul Martin’s freshman TAP seminar on Canada and
his English 180 Canadian literature course, along with fifteen students from Professor Jeff
Ayres’ Canadian Politics class at St. Michael’s College, participated in one of the Canadian
Studies Program's most memorable Ottawa field trips so far.
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HOMECOMING WEEK GUEST LECTURER AND PANEL DISCUSSION
On October 1, the Aiken Lecture Series will bring the NY Times
columnist Nicholas Kristof to campus. Mr. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer
Prize winner, has lived on four continents, reported on six, and
traveled to 120 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province,
and every main Japanese island. He's also one of the very few
Americans to be at least a two-time visitor to every member of the
"Axis of Evil." During his travels, he has had unpleasant experiences
with wars, malaria, mobs carrying heads on pikes, and an African
airplane crash. Mr. Kristof, who shared his 1990 Pulitzer Prize with
his wife for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy
movement, won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary on what the
judges called "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal
risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to
the voiceless in other parts of the world." Kristof's lecture will
begin at 5:00 PM in the Ira Allen Chapel.
Later that week, October 5, as part of the College of Arts and
Sciences Homecoming programming, Political Science Professor Gregory
Gause will participate in a panel discussion of U.S.-Middle East
relations. Joining Professor Gause will be David Marash from Al
Jazeera (Burlington was the site of the first cable broadcast of the
Al Jazeera English news program in the U.S.), and David Hamod,
President of the U.S. Arab Chamber of Commerce. The panelists will be
asked to consider and discuss how we can change the quality of
understanding and communication between the U.S. and the Muslim world in
the Middle East. Please join us in the Terrill Building, Room 108,
from 1:30 - 3:00 PM. For additional information, please visit the
homecoming web page. All events subject to change.
DEAN ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL FULL PROFESSOR LECTURE
I would like to take this opportunity to announce the names of the faculty members in the
College of Arts and Sciences who have just been tenured and promoted. I hope you will join
me in heartily congratulating them. The work of these faculty members is testimony to the
very high standards set in this College. Their records of scholarly and creative accomplishments,
their success as teachers, and their contributions to their professions, the University, the
College, and the community are impressive indeed.
Moreover, two of these promotions make history. To my knowledge, Anne Clark and Stephanie
Seguino are the first women to hold the rank of full professor in their respective departments.
Finally, with this year's promotions I would like to establish the Inaugural Full Professor
Lecture Series whereby...
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THE SALLY WEINSTOCK VISITING ARTIST IN THEATRE PROGRAM
For many years, Arts and Sciences Alumna, Sally B.Weinstock '56, provided for a fund that was
used to assist students in need of financial help because of unexpected circumstances or personal
emergencies. Many, many students benefited from the Sally B. Weinstock Fund. Relatively recent
changes in the interpretation of student "income," by the IRS and Title IV, however, made that
fund much less useful than when originally established: students on financial aid were now being
told that if they received emergency funds, their financial aid would be reduced by an equivalent
amount. Thus, only students not on financial aid were able to access these funds and, clearly,
the monies were not meant for students who did not have need. Accepting that this stand by the
federal government was not likely to change, the Dean approached Ms. Weinstock about redirecting
the funds. Although she graduated with an English major, Ms. Weinstock had been an active and
enthusiastic participant in theatre activities as a student. Dean Miller proposed using the
endowment to bring visiting artists to UVM each year to work with theatre students and faculty.
Next academic year will be the first time that a visiting artist will be brought to campus using
these funds. Professor Jeff Modereger, the Chair of the Theatre Department, is excited about
the prospect, as are the faculty and students. It is hoped that the College will be able to
add visiting artist programs in studio art, music, and dance in the relatively near future.
Stay tuned. And many thanks to benefactor Sally Weinstock for her continued support and generosity.
SOUPY TUESDAYS
Beginning this fall, Dean Miller will host Soupy Tuesdays every Tuesday the University is in
session. All untenured College of Arts and Sciences faculty are invited to 438 College between
11:45 and 12:45 for a bowl of soup, accompanied by whole grain bread and, we hope, good conversation.
The meal will be served in the Joan Smith Conference Room with overflow in the basement conference
room. There are two rules governing the event: 1) no take out is allowed and 2) reading or any
other solitary work is prohibited.
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Department of Anthropology
Emily Manetta
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Linguistics, U.C. Santa Cruz
[bio]
Scott Van Keuren
Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., University of Arizona
[bio]
Department of Art
Steve Budington
Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Yale School of Art
[bio]
Robert Flynn
Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Rutgers University
[bio]
Department of Chemistry
Stephen Waters
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvannia
[bio]
Department of Classics
Walter M. Roberts III
Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., U.C. Berkely
[bio]
Department of Economics
Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh,
Assistant Professor –
M.S. & Ph.D., Univ. of Paris
[bio]
Donna Ramirez-Harrington,
Assistant Professor –
Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois
[bio]
Department of English
Deborah Ellis
Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Northwestern University
[bio]
Elizabeth Fenton
Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., Rice University
[bio]
Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
[bio]
Department of Geography
Pablo Bose
Joining us in fall '09
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., York University
[bio]
Reecia Orzeck
Assistant Professor
M.A., York University
[bio]
Department of History
Flora Cassen
M.A., Brandeis University
[bio]
Nicole Phelps
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
[bio]
Department of Philosophy
Terence Cuneo
Joining us in fall '09
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Fordham University
[bio]
Matt Weiner
Associate Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., University of Pittsburg
[bio]
Department of Psychology
Keith Burt
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
[bio]
Jill Holm-Denoma
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
[bio]
Annie Murray-Close
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
[bio]
Dr. Elizabeth Pinel
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
[bio]
Alessandra Rellini
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
[bio]
Department of Religion
Vicki L. Brennan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
[bio]
Department of Romance Lang.
Guillermo Rodríguez
Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., University of Pittsburg
[bio]
Department of Sociology
Nicki Khanna
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
[bio]
Edward Walker
Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., Penn. State University
[bio]
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If you would like your gift to go directly to the College of Arts and
Sciences, in the "other" box please write "Arts and Sciences Dean's
Discretionary Fund."
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