Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

Deborah Blom

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

Marlaina H. Martin

Henderson Harris Fellow Anthropology

Marlaina.Martin@uvm.edu

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...

Jeanne Shea

Associate Professor

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

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;...

Classics

Jessica A. Evans

Senior Lecturer

jessica.a.evans@uvm.edu (802) 656-4607

Greek historiography, gender and sexuality, sport

Economics

Jane Knodell

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

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

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

Elaine McCrate

Emerita Faculty, Associate Professor of Economics

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

Stephanie Seguino

Emerita Faculty • Professor of Economics

stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Adult development and aging
  • Friendships
  • Sexual and gender identities

English

Eve Alexandra

Senior Lecturer

Eve.Alexandra@uvm.edu

Creative writing, poetry, American literature

Emily Bernard

Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor • Carnegie Fellow

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

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

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

Elizabeth Fenton

Professor

Elizabeth.Fenton@uvm.edu

Early American literature

John Gennari

Professor

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

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

Jinny Huh

Associate Professor

Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu

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 (802) 656-3839

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

Emily Lederman

Lecturer

Emily.Lederman@uvm.edu

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

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

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

Valerie Rohy

Professor

Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu

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 (802) 656-8627

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

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

Chris Vaccaro

Senior Lecturer

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

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

Environmental Studies

Bindu Panikkar

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

Feminist political ecology, geography, cultural anthropology and STSS;
Critical development, NGO, sustainability and animal...

German and Russian

Devin McFadden

Lecturer in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture

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

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

Modern Austrian Literature, Exile Literature

History

Paul Deslandes

Professor • Associate Dean for Student Success

Paul.Deslandes@uvm.edu

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

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

Pamela N. Walker

Assistant Professor

pnwalker@uvm.edu (802) 656-4489

African American History

Linguisics

Maeve Eberhardt

Associate Professor of Linguistics

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

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

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

Kate Nolfi

Associate Professor

knolfi@uvm.edu

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

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

American Politics, Public Law

Psychological Science

Religion

Vicki L. Brennan

Associate Professor • Director of Global and Regional Studies

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

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

Eleanor M. Miller

Professor

Eleanor.Miller@uvm.edu

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

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

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

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

Contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies, urban studies, queer theory, and Latin American film

Theatre and Dance

Sarah Carleton

Associate Professor, Emeritus

Sarah.Carleton@uvm.edu

Acting; directing; movement

Zeina Salame

Assistant Professor • Resident Director

Zeina.Salame@uvm.edu

Acting; directing; applied theatre; performance studies