Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

Deborah Blom

Associate Professor

Deborah.Blom@uvm.edu (802) 656-2932
Expertise

Archaeology, osteology, ethnicity, body adornment, social complexity; Andean South America.

Jennifer Dickinson

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success • Associate Professor

jennifer.dickinson@uvm.edu (802) 656-0903
Expertise

Linguistic anthropology; material culture and museum anthropology; economic anthropology; Sign Languages; advertising and media; Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Transcarpathia.

Teresa Mares

Associate Professor, Anthropology

teresa.mares@uvm.edu (802) 656-5706
Expertise

Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice

Marlaina H. Martin

Henderson Harris Fellow Anthropology

Marlaina.Martin@uvm.edu
Expertise

Anthropologies of Media, Race, and Gender; Colorblindness, Post-racialism, and Afrofuturism discourses; Black Feminism; Media Production and Distribution; Gender and Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Cultural Studies 

Jeanne Shea

Associate Professor

Jeanne.Shea@uvm.edu (802) 656-3181
Expertise

Sociocultural anthropology; medical and psychological anthropology; cultural aspects of health, healing, and health care; global health; aging societies and social change; aging in family and community context, productive aging, caregiving;...

Art and Art History

Ace Lehner

Assistant Professor

ace.lehner@uvm.edu
Expertise

Classics

Jessica A. Evans

Senior Lecturer

jessica.a.evans@uvm.edu (802) 656-4607
Expertise
  • Greek historiography
  • gender and sexuality
  • sport

Economics

Stephanie Seguino

Emerita Faculty • Professor of Economics

stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu
Expertise

Macroeconomics and development.

Racial and gender inequality.

Education and Social Services

Susan Comerford

Associate Professor of Social Work

Susan.Comerford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2487
Expertise
  • Adult learning
  • Diversity, access and equity
  • Human rights
  • Immigrant issues
  • Leadership
  • Organizational development

Cris Mayo

Professor of Education • Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies in Education • Vice Chair, Department of Education

cris.mayo@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • Philosophy of education
  • Gender and sexuality studies in education
  • Queer, transgender, and community-based pedagogies

Summer Melody Pennell

Lecturer of Education • Program Coordinator, Secondary Education Master of Arts in Teaching

summer.pennell@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • Critical literacies
  • Young adult literature
  • Inclusion and justice in education
  • Queer theory and pedagogy
  • Experiences of academic mothers

Jacqueline Weinstock

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science

Jacqueline.Weinstock@uvm.edu (802) 656-2058
Expertise
  • Adult development and aging
  • Friendships
  • Sexual and gender identities

English

Eve Alexandra

Senior Lecturer

Eve.Alexandra@uvm.edu
Expertise

Creative writing, poetry, American literature

Emily Bernard

Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor

Emily.Bernard@uvm.edu
Expertise

African-American and 20th-Century American literature, critical theory, race and ethnicity in literature, Women's studies

Jean Bessette

Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Studies

Jean.Bessette@uvm.edu
Expertise

Rhetorical theory; composition pedagogy; Feminist rhetorics, historiographies, and pedagogies; Queer theory and studies; digital rhetorics; archival theory 

Elizabeth Fenton

Professor • Director of Graduate Writing Seminar

Elizabeth.Fenton@uvm.edu
Expertise

Early American literature

John Gennari

Professor

John.Gennari@uvm.edu
Expertise

U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism

Jinny Huh

Associate Professor

Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu
Expertise

Asian American literature & culture, African American literature & culture comparative race studies, detective fiction, 20th-Century American literature, cultural studies

Mary Lou Kete

Professor • Chair of the English Department

Mary.Kete@uvm.edu
Expertise

19th-Century American literature, African-American literature, critical theory, Women's studies 

Emily Lederman

Lecturer

Emily.Lederman@uvm.edu
Expertise

Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, Women’s & Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Theory, Archival Theory, Community Engagement & Advocacy

Hilary Neroni

Professor of English and Film Studies

Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu
Expertise

Film and media theory, representations of gender and race, violence in film and on television, Women directors, documentary film/video, Feminist theory, psychoanalytic cultural theory and Marxism.

Deborah Noel

Senior Lecturer

Deborah.Noel@uvm.edu
Expertise

American literature, race and ethnicity in U.S. literature and culture, Women in literature 

Valerie Rohy

Acting Chair of English • Professor

Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu
Expertise

19th and 20th-century American literature, LGBT literature, critical theory, Feminist theory, Queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, and narrative.

Lisa Schnell

Associate Professor

Lisa.Schnell@uvm.edu
Expertise

Renaissance, Shakespeare, 17th-century British, Bible as literature, critical theory, Women's studies

Helen Scott

Professor • Director of The Buckham Overseas Study Program • Graduate Program Director

Helen.Scott@uvm.edu
Expertise

Post Colonialism, Caribbean anglophone, 20th-century British literature, Marxist theory

Chris Vaccaro

Senior Lecturer

Christopher.Vaccaro@uvm.edu
Expertise

Beowulf, Medieval literature, Tolkien studies, sex and gender identity studies

Environmental Studies

Bindu Panikkar

Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS)

bindu.panikkar@uvm.edu (802) 656-5877
Expertise

Environmental health, community based research, environmental policy, natural resources, Arctic environment and health, environmental health social movements, environmental justice

Geography

Meghan Cope

Professor

Meghan.Cope@uvm.edu
Expertise

Urban social/cultural geography, focusing on critical historical geographies of childhood. Using and writing about qualitative research, ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, and other methods to learn about the geographic...

Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux

Distinguished Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences

Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146
Expertise

Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont

Ingrid L. Nelson

Associate Professor

ilnelson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2087
Expertise

Feminist political ecology, geography, cultural anthropology and STSS;
Critical development, NGO, sustainability and animal studies;
Digital geographies and natures

German and Russian

Devin McFadden

Lecturer in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture

Devin.McFadden@uvm.edu (802) 656-1470
Expertise

20th-century Russian literature; the Russian novel; novel theory; gender studies; queer theory; queer Russia, modernism; political history and theory; postmodernism; the graphic novel.

Helga Schreckenberger

Program Director, Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor of German

Helga.Schreckenberger@uvm.edu (802) 656-1473
Expertise

Modern Austrian Literature, Exile Literature

History

Paul Deslandes

Professor • Associate Dean for Student Success

Paul.Deslandes@uvm.edu
Expertise

Modern Britain and the British Empire, Gender and Sexuality.

Melanie S. Gustafson

Professor • Coordinator of Transfer Affairs, Study Abroad

Melanie.Gustafson@uvm.edu (802) 656-4422
Expertise

U.S. social, U.S. women, gender politics.

Zoe Senecal

Lecturer

zoe.senecal@uvm.edu
Expertise

History of premodern Europe, including the global development of travel, exploration, religion, magic, and witch hunts from the late medieval period to the present.

Pamela N. Walker

Assistant Professor

pnwalker@uvm.edu (802) 656-4489
Expertise

African American History

Linguisics

Maeve Eberhardt

Associate Professor of Linguistics

maeve.eberhardt@uvm.edu (802) 656-0791
Expertise

Language and media; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; critical discourse analysis; multimodal discourse analysis

Nursing and Health Sciences

Philosophy

Sin yee Chan

Professor

Sin-yee.Chan@uvm.edu (802) 656-3135
Expertise

Ethics, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism and the discussion of the interplay between feminism and Confucianism.

Kate Nolfi

Associate Professor

knolfi@uvm.edu
Expertise

Epistemology, Metaethics, and the Philosophy of Mind.

Political Science

Caroline Beer

John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science • Professor (2000) • Director of Liberals Arts Scholars Program for Social Sciences

Caroline.Beer@uvm.edu (802) 656-8384
Expertise

Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics; research interests include democratization, political economy and women in politics.

Lisa M. Holmes

Associate Professor (2002)

Lisa.M.Holmes@uvm.edu (802) 656-4475
Expertise

American Politics, Public Law

Psychological Science

Dianna "Annie" Murray-Close

Robert B. Lawson Green and Gold Professor

dianna.murray-close@uvm.edu (802) 656-4142
Expertise

Religion

Vicki L. Brennan

Associate Professor • Director of Global and Regional Studies

vicki.brennan@uvm.edu (802) 656-9301
Expertise

Religions in Africa & the African Diaspora, Religion & Art, Religion, Music, & Sound, Religion and Health, Bodies, and Gender

Sociology

Jennifer Lai

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Jennifer.Lai@uvm.edu
Expertise

Eleanor M. Miller

Professor

Eleanor.Miller@uvm.edu
Expertise

classical sociological theory, feminist social and political theory, deviance, gender, qualitative research methods

Jennifer Strickler

Associate Professor and Chair

Jennifer.Strickler@uvm.edu (802) 656-5453
Expertise

Quantitative research methods, sociology of reproduction, family demography, sociology of Latin American societies.

Spanish

Tina Escaja

Distinguished Professor

tina.escaja@uvm.edu (802) 656-1361
Expertise

20th-21st century Spanish and Latin American poetry; gender studies; turn of the century literature, society, and digital media

Yolanda Flores

Associate Professor

yolanda.flores@uvm.edu (802) 656-3574
Expertise

Comparative literature, culture, and performance studies of the Americas (U.S., Latino, Spanish American, and Brazilian)

Ignacio López-Vicuña

Associate Professor

ignacio.lopez-vicuna@uvm.edu (802) 656-0939
Expertise

Contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies; the city in literature; Latin American film.

Theatre and Dance

Sarah Carleton

Associate Professor, Emeritus

Sarah.Carleton@uvm.edu
Expertise

Acting; directing; movement

Zeina Salame

Assistant Professor • Resident Director

Zeina.Salame@uvm.edu
Expertise

Acting; directing; applied theatre; performance studies