Environmental solutions cannot come from one type of knowledge or way of thinking, not just from politics or chemistry or economics or history. They come instead from leaders, thinkers, and innovators ...

Bill McKibben has been at Middlebury for a quarter century, now as Schumann Distinguished Scholar Environmental Studies. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, ...

Fall 2026: M, W 11:15-noon and T 2:00-3:30, or by appointment, in Munroe, Rm. 315.

The Performing Arts Series’ 2026–2027 season will be a dynamic lineup that continues our mission to highlight diverse programming across performing arts disciplines. Our 107th season features ...

Zoom Office Hours: Mondays, 4:00-5:00pm; Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00am; Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am, and by appointment. Susan Burch is a professor of American Studies. Before joining the Middlebury faculty in ...

Monday 2:00-3:00 PM, Tuesday 3:30-4:30 PM, Wednesday 8:30-9:30 AM, Friday, 2:00-3:00 PM, or by arrangement John Schmitt is Professor of Mathematics and has been at Middlebury College since 2005. He ...

My son first convinced me to enroll in the Middlebury School of Russian. His plan was to do Russian level 1, and I would do Russian level 2. He had done the Italian School and liked it.

Paul M. Sommers is the Paige-Wright Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (1976). For the last 50 years Professor Sommers ...

Professor Emeritus Thomas (Tom) taught Chinese language and modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature, film, and documentary film at Middlebury from 1994 until his retirement in 2025.

American Constitutional Law: The First Amendment This course focuses on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the first amendment freedoms of speech, press, and religion. After starting with the ...

B.A. Smith College; Ph.D. University of California Berkeley Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary research focused on the intersection of human geography, conservation science, environmental politics, ...

My research focuses on using geochronology, remote sensing, and modeling to understand the timing and rates of surface processes. Much of my work involves cosmogenic dating and optically stimulated ...