Thomas Streeter (Coordinator), Associate Professor, Sociology. Thomas Streeter teaches courses in the sociology of media, popular culture, and language. He has published a variety of works on culture, society, and communications policy and is currently researching the politics of internet governance and intellectual property law. His book, Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the US, won the 1996 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research. Other recent publications include "'That Deep Romantic Chasm': Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture" (forthcoming in Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Re-Thinking the Limits of the Welfare State). In addition to teaching at UVM, he has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.

Charles Colbourn, Professor and Chair, Computer Science. Charles Colbourn is the Dorothean Professor of Computer Science and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He has been awarded the University Scholar award for Basic Sciences, as well as the Instructor of the Year Award. He is the author or editor of eight books, and has written more than 250 scientific papers. He has been invited to lecture in fifteen countries on five continents. Professor Colbourn undertakes research in mathematical and computational methods for reliability, security, secrecy, and privacy in communications networks such as the Internet. He has interests in the effect on society of network points-of-presence which provide high-speed and high-volume access to data and computational tools.

Anthony Gierzynski, Assistant Professor, Political Science. Professor Gierzynski's area of study is American politics with specific interests in campaign finance, legislative elections, comparative state politics, political parties, and the mass media. He has published a book, Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the American States, which explores state legislative party organizations' electoral activities. He has also published several articles on the financing of state legislative campaigns in Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Review of Politics, and Women & Politics. And he has been part of research teams awarded grants by the National Science Foundation and the Joyce Foundation to study the financing of elections at the state and local level.

Jane M. Kolodinsky, Associate Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics. Jane Kolodinski teaches Consumer Motivation, Economics, and Advertising, and studies consumer behavior, the economics of aging, specialty product marketing, and the economics of drug use in rural areas. Her numerous publications include " Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: An Evaluation of Extension Training in Sustainable Agriculture" (with David Conner) in press in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture; and "The Allocation of Time to Grocery Shopping: A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Households," Journal of Economic and Family Issues 17(3/4).

Theodore Lyman, Associate Professor, Art. Ted Lyman is Chair of the Dept. of Art and teaches media production and the theory of media as art in UVM’s Department of Art. He has been making experimental films for over twenty years and numbers Skycap, Alleydog, Scotland With No Clothes, Mansacts, Fla.Me., Testament of the Rabbit, and First Surface among his productions. His work has been shown in national and international venues, won several best of festival awards and been broadcast by PBS and The Learning Channel. Lyman lives in northern New England with his wife, Virginia Clarke, and two teenage children, Lindsay and Andrew Lyman-Clarke, who frequently appear in his work.

Dennis Mahoney, Professor, German and Russian. Dennis Mahoney is a specialist in German romanticism, with an interest in German cinema. He is Interim Director of the European Area Studies Program. His expertise on the literature of the Age of Goethe, German Romanticism, German intellectual movements, and the German film have earned him a guest professorship at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He is the author of numerous articles on Goethe, Novalis, Schiller, and others. His book on the Roman der Goethezeit is a seminal work and has brought him national and international recognition. This is also the case for his two books on the German Romantic writer Novalis, one written in German and the other in English. His most recent book on the Critical Reception of Novalis' Novel "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" is a model for the literary reception theory, and was named one of Choice magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books for 1995."

Julie Roberts, Assistant Professor, Communication Science. Julie Roberts teaches courses in linguistics and child language for undergraduate and graduate students. She is particularly interested in the dialects and how children learn them and is conducting a study on the Vermont dialect as spoken by children and adults. She also conducts research with children with specific expressive language impairment and serves as a clinical supervisor at the E.M. Luse Center. Recent publications include "Acquisition of variable rules: A study of (-t,d) deletion in preschool children," forthcoming in Journal of Child Language; "Hitting a moving target: Acquisition of sound changes by Philadelphia children.," forthcoming in Language Variation and Change.

Alfred C. Snider, Associate Professor, Theater/Speech. Alfred C. ("Tuna") Snider, is Edwin W. Lawrence Professor of Forensics and Director of UVM’s summer World Debate Institute. He has been a college debate coach for 25 years, is widely published in debate theory, and originated the "Gaming Paradigm." In 1993 he was named College Coach of the Year, in 1996 the Eastern Coach of the Year. His squad regularly places in the top twenty nationally.

Luis Vivanco, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Luis Vivanco is an anthropologist who studies the cultural politics of nature conservation, ecotourism and development in Latin America. His dissertation (Princeton University 1999) focuses on how competing representations of nature and knowledge ('scientific' and 'local') play
into environmentalist practice in Monte Verde, Costa Rica. He is also a member of an international research team studying the relationship between environmental security and indigenous autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico, which includes components of ethnographic and indigenous filmmaking.

Nancy Welch, Assistant Professor, English. Nancy Welch has interests in rhetoric, creative writing, and the politics of literacy instruction. She is the author of Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1997), and her articles and short stories have appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently she is working on a series of essays that, drawing particularly on post-Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theories, seek to examine, question and revise our culture's standard (Oedipal) narratives of academic socialization.

Joseph Won, Assistant Professor, English. Prof. Won is writing a book about images of Asians in American mass media, with a focus on martial arts images and mass-mediated "cultural-cross dressing." A graduate of Princeton University (AB, 1980), and the University of Michigan (JD, 1983; PhD, 1996), he teaches in the areas of both Television Studies and Asian American Studies.

Denise J. Youngblood, Professor and Chair, History. Denise J. Youngblood's areas of expertise include Russian and Soviet history, the history of modern Eastern Europe, visual culture and cultural theory, and film and history. She has written extensively on Russian and Soviet cinema, including a dozen articles and three books, the most recent of which is The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999). She currently serves on two committees of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies and was a council member and past vice- president of the International Association for Media and History. She has also been review editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television and the Soviet & Post-Soviet Review. Her many academic awards include the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellent in Teaching at UVM, a Presidential Fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar, and the Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in Slavic Studies for her book Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s (Cambridge University Press, 1992).