Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

Deborah Blom

Associate Professor

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

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

Jennifer Dickinson

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success • Associate Professor

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

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

Teresa Mares

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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

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

Jeanne Shea

Associate Professor

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; research design and methods; China, North America.

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

Marlaina H. Martin

Henderson Harris Fellow Anthropology

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

Marlaina.Martin@uvm.edu

Art and Art History

Jen Berger

Lecturer

Jennifer.Berger@uvm.edu

Ace Lehner

Assistant Professor

ace.lehner@uvm.edu

Jaimes Mayhew

Lecturer

Jaimes.Mayhew@uvm.edu

Classics

Body

Jessica Evans

Economics

Jane Knodell

Mark J. Zwynenburg Green and Gold Professor of Financial History • Professor of Economics

Macroeconomics, money & banking and U.S. economic history.

jane.knodell@uvm.edu (802) 656-0189

Elaine McCrate

Emerita Faculty, Associate Professor of Economics

elaine.mccrate@uvm.edu (802) 656-0192

Stephanie Seguino

Emerita Faculty • Professor of Economics

Macroeconomics and development.

Racial and gender inequality.

stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu

Susan Comerford

Associate Professor of Social Work

Adult learning
Diversity, access and equity
Human rights
Immigrant issues
Leadership
Organizational development

Susan.Comerford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2487

Jacqueline Weinstock

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science

Adult development and aging
Friendships
Sexual and gender identities

Jacqueline.Weinstock@uvm.edu (802) 656-2058

Cris Mayo

Professor of Education • Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies in Education

Philosophy of education
Gender and sexuality studies in education
Queer, transgender, and community-based pedagogies

cris.mayo@uvm.edu

Summer Melody Pennell

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

Critical literacies
Young adult literature
Inclusion and justice in education
Queer theory and pedagogy
Experiences of academic mothers

summer.pennell@uvm.edu

English

Eve Alexandra

Senior Lecturer

Creative writing, poetry, American literature

Eve.Alexandra@uvm.edu

Emily Bernard

Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor • Carnegie Fellow

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

Emily.Bernard@uvm.edu (802) 656-3423

Jean Bessette

Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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

Jean.Bessette@uvm.edu

Elizabeth Fenton

Professor

Early American literature

Elizabeth.Fenton@uvm.edu

John Gennari

Professor

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

John.Gennari@uvm.edu (802) 656-3435

Mary Lou Kete

Professor • Chair of the English Department

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

Mary.Kete@uvm.edu (802) 656-3839

Hilary Neroni

Professor of English and Film Studies

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.

Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu

Deborah Noel

Senior Lecturer

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

Deborah.Noel@uvm.edu

Valerie Rohy

Professor

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

Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu

Lisa Schnell

Associate Professor

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

lisa.schnell@uvm.edu (802) 656-8627

Helen Scott

Professor • Director of The Buckham Overseas Study Program

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

Helen.Scott@uvm.edu

Chris Vaccaro

Senior Lecturer

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

Christopher.Vaccaro@uvm.edu (802) 656-1221

Stephanie Foote

Professor

stephanie.foote@uvm.edu

Jinny Huh

Associate Professor

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

Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu

Emily Lederman

Lecturer

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

Emily.Lederman@uvm.edu

Environmental Studies

Bindu Panikkar

Associate Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Environmental health, Community based research, Environmental policy, Natural resources, Arctic environment and health, Environmental health social movements, Environmental justice

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

French and Italian

Body

Geography

Meghan Cope

Professor

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 meanings and processes that matter to socially and economically marginalized groups.

Meghan.Cope@uvm.edu

Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux

Distinguished Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences

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

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

Ingrid L. Nelson

Associate Professor

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

ilnelson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2087