Introducing Frank Bryan: Material for
Event Coordinators
Frank Bryan is the John G. McCullough
Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont where he has taught
since 1977. Prior to this he spent two years as chair of the Political Science Department
at Montana State University in Bozeman. He taught Political Science at St.
Michael’s College from 1968-1974 after receiving his doctorate at the
University of Connecticut. He is a graduate of Newbury (VT) High School.
Bryan is known throughout New England
both as a humorist and a serious scholar.
Among the books he has written are Real Democracy: The New England
Town Meeting and How It Works; The Vermont Papers; and The
Vermont Owner’s Manual. He has been chosen “one of New England’s
leading humorists” by Yankee magazine; and the Boston
Globe credited him with writing “one of the most original political
analyses ever written about New England.” Nationally his work has drawn
the attention of such publications as the New York Times, Newsweek,
and the Los Angeles Times.
He has appeared on CBS’s Sunday
Morning, the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and more
recently with Brian Williams, Fox’s The
O’Reilly Factor, Bill Moyers’ The Public Mind,
and featured in Ted Turner’s Portrait of America film series.
In 2008 Marlboro College presented
Bryan with an honorary doctorate on the occasion of his commencement address at
the College.
Bryan is a former Golden Gloves boxer
(Vermont and Connecticut) and rodeo bull rider (Montana). His current
interests include hunting, fishing, and trapping; oxen; stamp collecting; and
poker.
Other books that Frank has authored or co-authored: |
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Scholarly Books:
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Other Books:
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Politics in the Rural
States |
Real Vermonters Don’t
Milk Goats |
Yankee Politics in Rural
Vermont |
The Very Latest Vermont
Quiz Book |
Readings in American
Government |
The Vermont Quiz Book |
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Out! The Vermont
Secession Book |
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Out of Order |
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All Those in Favor:
Rediscovering the
Secrets of Town Meeting
Democracy |
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Current Address: |
Website: |
503 Old Mill, University of
Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 |
www.uvm.edu/~fbryan |
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Education: |
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B.A.
St. Michael’s College M.A.
University of Vermont Ph.D. University
of Connecticut |
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