Dr. Edie Furniss is director of the Russian Language Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught Russian in intensive summer programs across the U.S. for almost a decade and has ...

Peter Tarjanyi holds a Ph.D. in French and queer studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research centers on Francophone media and literature with a focus on North Africa and ...

Dr. Smita Ruzicka serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs at Middlebury College where she provides leadership for a wide portfolio of services and programs aimed at enhancing the overall ...

As a high-school exchange student in France, Julie Johnson experienced the distress of getting off the plane and hardly understanding a word. By the end of that year, she had earned her baccalauréat ...

I graduated from Middlebury College in 1990 and received my Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Kansas in 1997. I am currently Professor of Russian at Michigan State University, after ...

Jason Blazakis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) where he focuses on threat financing, sanctions, violent extremism, and special operations related research.

Before teaching at the Institute, Professor Cai had worked for 26 years as a translator, reviser, editor and senior reviser at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. A regular contributor to the ...

Why is our food system broken? Austin Frerick describes the rise to power of 7 “food titans”, whose exploitation of consumers, farmers and workers has contributed to high prices and poor conditions ...

Pablo M. Oliva is an Associate Professor and Program Chair in the Language Studies Department (LS) and has over 20 years of experience in second language acquisition and teaching. His expertise ...

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Adjunct Professor Christopher McShane is a former U.S. Department of State foreign service officer with over 20 years of service. His graduate-level courses have specialized in cross-cultural ...

Spring 2025: Monday and Wednesday, 2:15pm-3:45pm; or by appointment. *Note: Office hours will not take place on Monday, March 10 Professor Morrison began teaching at Middlebury College in 2003, just ...