For the past thirty years, the core faculty members have taught together. These include Professors Patrick Hutton, History; R. Thomas Simone, English; and Richard Sugarman, Religion (Director). All three faculty have been recipients of the prestigious Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching. Other senior professors from the Arts and Sciences regularly teach in the program, including Professors William Paden of the Religion Department; Barbara Saylor Rodgers and Mark Usher of the Classics Department;  Annika Ljung-Baruth from Women's Studies; and Professor Ian Grimmer from the History Department. 

Professor Sugarman

Professor of Religion

Professor Sugarman's fields are phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and Jewish philosophy. His Ph.D. is from Boston University (1976), and his M.A. and B.A. are from Yale (1969, 1966). He came to the University of Vermont in 1970. His publications include Rancor Against Time: The Phenomenology of Ressentiment (Felix Meiner, 1980), and (with R.T. Simone) Reclaiming the Humanities: The Roots of Self-Knowledge in the Greek and Biblical Worlds (Univ. Press of America,1986). He has authored articles on the religious philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Sugarman also serves as Director of the Integrated Humanities Program for first-year students, and was a recipient of the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching.  In 2006, Professor Sugarman was selected to give the prestigious Dean's Lecture on "Time and Transcendence."  In 2007,  Professor Sugarman received the 2008 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award. 

Professor Hutton

Professor Emeritus of History

Education: A.B. (cum laude), 1960, Princeton University; M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 

Key Scholarly Interests: the French Revolutionary tradition; modern European intellectual and cultural history; modern and contemporary historiography; the thought and influence of the Neapolitan philosopher of history, Giambattista Vico; the thought and influence of the French cultural historian Philippe Aries.

Publication Highlights-- Four books: The Cult of the Revolutionary Tradition (Univ. of California, 1981); An Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, ed.-in-chief (Greenwood, 1986); Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, co-ed. with colleagues Luther Martin and Huck Gutman (Univ. of Massachusetts, 1986); History as an Art of Memory (University Press of New England, 1993); and some 35 scholarly articles.  His new book, Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History, will be published early next year by the University of Massachusetts Press.

Professor Hutton is an internationally-known intellectual historian who has lectured at many prominent universities throughout the world. He has also won a number of prestigious Awards and Honors at UVM - including the Kroepsch-Maurice award for teaching (1992) and the University Scholar award (1999); and in the profession - stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1971; 1993), grant-in-aid, the American Council of Learned Societies (1974-75); Fulbright Research Scholar, Paris, France (1995-96).
 

Professor Simone

Professor Thomas Simone is a founding member of the Integrated Humanities Program. He also established the University of Vermont Humanities Center, which he directed from 1990-2003. He teaches a broad range of authors from Homer to Beckett. He has taught courses and published on Shakespeare, Ibsen, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Proust and others.  He recently completed a definitive translation of Dante's Inferno.  He is the author of many articles and reviews of recorded classical music, and has recently launched a new performance and symposium series on Music and the Humanities at UVM.  

He is the author of Shakespeare and Lucrece (Salzburg, 1975) and with Richard Sugarman, Reclaiming the Humanities (1986). Along with publishing a range of writings on the history of recorded classical music, he also offers courses on literature and opera, Shakespeare and film, and Shakespeare and philosophy. He is currently working on a book on Shakespeare and the Lithuanian-French ethical philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas.