PROFESSIONAL VITA 2008
Frank
M. Bryan
John G.
McCullough Professor of Political Science
503 Old
Mill, 94 University Place
University
of Vermont
Burlington,
VT 05405-0114
Frank.bryan@uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/~fbryan
802.656.0570
Education
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut ‑ Ph.D., 1970
The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ‑ M.A., 1965
St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont ‑ B.A., 1963
Newbury Graded and High School, Newbury, Vermont
Present
Position
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, The University of Vermont
Teaching
Fields
American Government and Politics
State and Local Politics and
Policy
Public Administration
Research Methods and Methodology
Other
Appointments
Board of Trustees, Vermont Historical
Society, 2008 -
Advisory Board, Freedom and Unity,
a film on Vermont 2007 -
Advisory Board, National Project Vote
Smart 2006 -
Contributing Editor, Journal of Public
Deliberation 2005 –
Advisory Board, Second Vermont Republic
2005 -
Curriculum Subcommittee, Center for
Research on Vermont 2002 -
Executive Committee, Center for Research
on Vermont 2001 -
Commentator, Vermont Public Radio 2000 –
Board of Scholars and Advisory Council,
Ethan Allen Institute, 2000 -
Advisory Board, “Annual Editions,”
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishing Company 1996 –
Advisory Board, Lyceum Society of
Vermont, 2007 -
Memberships
The American Political Science Association
The
American Society for Public Administration
The
Vermont Historical Society
The
Vermont Folklore Society
Vermont
Council on the Humanities
Pi
Alpha Alpha
Pi
Sigma Alpha
The
Center for Research on Vermont
Ethan
Allen Institute
The
Lyceum Society of Vermont
Publications
BOOKS (Academic)
Frank Bryan, with Susan
Clark, All Those In Favor:
Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community (Montpelier: RavenMark, 2005).
____, Real Democracy: The New
England Town Meeting and How It Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
____, (editor) Readings in
American Government (Minneapolis: West Publishing Co., 1991).
____, with John McClaughry, The
Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale, (Chelsea,
Vermont: The Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1989).
____, Politics in the Rural
States: People, Parties and Processes (Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1981).
____, Yankee Politics in Rural
Vermont (Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England,
1974).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
____, “Political Participation”
and “Leading America into the 21st Century” in Gary Aguiar (ed), Government
in the Countryside (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2007).
____, "Town Meeting," and "Orville Gibson" in John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, and Ralph H. Orth (eds.) The Vermont Encyclopedia (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003).
____, “Direct Democracy and
Civic Competence: The Case of Town Meeting,” in Stephen L. Elkin and
Karol E. Sulton (eds.) Democracy and Citizen Competence (University
Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998).
____, “Interest Groups,” in
Michael Sherman (ed.) Vermont State Government and Administration 1965-1995
(Burlington, Vermont: The Center for Research on Vermont and the Snelling
Center for Public Policy, the University of Vermont, 1998).
____, “Vermont:
Interest Groups in a Rural Technopolity,” with Ann Hallowell in Ron Hrebenar
and Clive Thomas (eds.) Interest Group Politics in the Northeast
(University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press,
1993).
____, “Vermont: Of
Land, People and Democracy,” in C. L. Gilbert (ed.) Vermont Odysseys
(Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1991).
____, “Defining
Rural: Returning to Our Roots,” in James Seroka (ed.) Public
Administration in Rural America (Greenwich, Connecticut: The
Greenwood Press, 1986).
____, “The Rural
Technopolity,” in Nicholas Muller III and Sam Hand (eds.) In a State of
Nature: Readings in Vermont History (Montpelier,
Vermont: The Vermont Historical Society, 1982).
____, “The New England
Governors” in Josephine Milburn and Victoria Schuck (eds.) New England
Politics (Boston: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1981).
____, “Legislative
Apportionment in Vermont,” in Alan Heslop (ed.), Redistricting in the 1980's
(Claremont, California: The Rose Institute of State and Local
Government, 1981).
ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
____, “Town
Meeting: A Space for Communal Liberty,” Vermont
Commons (Winter, 2008).
____, Book review,
“Deep Economy,” by Bill McKibben, in Money
in the Mountains (October 31, 2007).
____, with Ian
Baldwin, “The Once and Future Republic of Vermont,” Washington Post (April
1, 2007).
____, “Town
Meeting: The People’s Congress,” Burlington Free Press (March 4, 2007).
____, “Women Rule
at Town Meeting,” Burlington Free Press (March 4, 2007).
____, “A
Schoolhouse of Civility,” Sunday Rutland Herald (March 4, 2007).
____, “Secessionism
and Vermont,” Vermont Commons (January 2007).
____, “The True
Congress,” Vermont Commons (March
2006).
____, “Towards Our
New Republic,” Vermont Commons (January 2006).
____, “The Prodigal Nation,” Vermont
Commons (April 2005).
____, “The New England Town Meeting in
Action” (Review) The American Political Science Review (June, 2001)
pp.489-490.
____, “Town Meeting: Keeper
of the Sacred Flame,” (Essay accompanying Vermont’s Contribution to the
Smithsonian’s 20th Century Collections, Washington, DC, 2000).
____, “Direct Democracy and
Civic Competence,” The Good Society 5 (Fall, 1995).
____, “Turtle on its Back,”
PEGS Newsletter (December, 1993).
____, “Rearranging the Deck
Chairs,” reprinted in The Yankee Planner 13 (Winter, 1993).
____, “Rearranging the Deck
Chairs,” Planning Commissioners Journal (November/December, 1992).
____, “The Future Is Not
What It Was Supposed to Be,” The Constituent (December, 1992).
____, “Going it Alone,” Chronicles
(May/June, 1991).
____, with Clark Bensen,
“Strengthening Democratic Control: Vermont's 1986 Election in Historical
Perspective,” Vermont History (Fall, 1988).
____, “Town Meeting,” The
Sovereign Citizen (Fall, 1988).
____, “Hill Farm with
Computer,” North by Northeast (June, 1988).
____, “A Habit of the
Heart,” Upper Valley (March/April, 1988).
____, “Pivot Point for
Democracy,” Window of Vermont 3 (February, 1987).
____, “Town Meeting
Debate,” Vermont Life 40 (Spring, 1986).
____, with Clark Bensen,
“The 1984 Election in Vermont,” Vermont History (Fall, 1985).
____, “Trouble in the
Vermont Hills,” Newsweek (March 13, 1984).
____, with Clark Bensen,
“The 1982 Election in Vermont,” Vermont History (Fall, 1983).
____, “Learning Through
Conflict,” Teaching Political Science (Winter, 1983).
____, “The Lonely
Villagers: Vermont in the Post Modern World,” Vermont (Fall,
1982).
____, “Rural
Renaissance: Is America on the Move Again?” Public Opinion 5
(June/July, 1982), pp. 16‑21.
____, “Hands Off Town
Meeting,” New York Times (April 3, 1982).
____, with David
Rosenbloom, “Public Bureaucracies Within States,” State and Local Government
Review (September, 1981).
____, with Sam Hand, “The
1980 Elections in New England,” State Government (Spring, 1981).
____, “Charting the
Republican Erosion,” Vermont History (Winter, 1981).
____, “Town Meeting:
A Rural Option for Urban America?” National Civic Review (December,
1978).
____, “Town Meeting–Pure
Democracy in Action,” in What This Community Needs . . . An
Anthology of Advocates Views (Helena, Montana: State Commission on
Local Government, January, 1976).
____, “Opening the Time
Lock of the Vermont Constitution: A Statistical Analysis of the 1974
Referendum,” Vermont History (Spring, 1976).
____, “Self‑Government
Powers and Responsive Government,” Citizen's Guide to Self‑Government
Powers (Bureau of Government Research, University of Montana, 1975).
____, and Kenneth Bruno,
“Asphalt in the Wilderness: The Politics of the Green Mountain Parkway
Controversy,” Vermont History (Fall, 1973).
____, “Town Meeting Support
in Vermont,” National Civic Review (July, 1972).
____, “People and
Politics,” Chittenden (January, 1972).
____, “Catholic Education
Aid‑‑Yankee Style,” America (September, 1971).
____, “The Politics of Town
Meeting ‑ Another View,” Chittenden (February, 1970).
____, “The Metamorphosis of
a Rural Legislature,” Polity (December, 1968).
____, “The Encounter,” The
New England Guide (Summer, 1968).
____, “Who is Legislating?”
National Civic Review (December, 1967).
____, “Politics and
Poetry,” Vermonter (August, 1967).
____, and Frederick J.
Matkin, “Shadowboxing with Poverty,” Rally (October, 1966).
____, “The State That Might
Have Been,” Vermonter (October, 1966).
____, “Town Meetings or
Regional Government?” Vermonter (August, 1966).
____, “Viewing the
Charter,” Rural Vermonter, (May, 1966).
____, “Reapportionment and
the Vermont Town,” Rural Vermonter (Spring, 1964).
REPRINTS
Re-Inventing Vermont: Towards 21st
Century Blueprints “The Vermont Commons” (March 2006), excerpts
from The Vermont Papers.
Vermont: The Once and Future
Republic “The
Montpelier Bridge” (February 2006), reprinted from the January 2006 issue of
“The Vermont Commons.”
Readings in American Government (Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown
Publisher, 1992) excerpts from The Vermont Papers.
Rereading America: Cultural
Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing 2nd. ed., Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie
Lisle eds., (Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1992), excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
Putting Power in its Place, Judith and Christopher Plant,
eds. (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992), excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
Utne Reader (Jan/Feb 1991) excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
New Options (April 28, 1989) excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
PAPERS AND CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
“New England, Democracy and America: The Road Not Taken,”
Presented at the “State of New England: People, Politics, and Policies”
Conference, Stonehill College, Massachusetts, March 28, 2008.
“How Goes the Republic? A View
from the Green Mountain State,” Presented at the National Conference of State
Legislatures, Burlington, Vermont, September 15, 2007.
“Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederick
Jackson Turner, and a Communitarian Perspective on Political Development in
Northern New England,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vermont/New
Hampshire USDA Council on Rural Development, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 22,
2007.
“Vermont as a Free Democracy:
Past, Present, Future,” Presented at the Social Studies Colloquium at
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, April 16, 2007.
“Vermont and New Hampshire:
Separated at Birth?” Panel member at the
New England Political Science Association, Newton, Massachusetts, April 2007.
“Author Meets Critics: Frank
Bryan's Real Democracy ” Presented at the Northeastern Political Science
Association Conference, Philadelphia, November, 2005.
“Human Scale Thinking About
Macro-Scale Politics: Should Vermont Secede from the Union?” Presented at the
Second Vermont Convention of the Second Vermont Republic, Montpelier, October,
2005.
“Technology and Democracy: A
Challenge for Local Governments” Presented at the Annual Vermont Town Officers
Conference (four venues: Lyndon,
Burlington, Rutland, and Fairlee), spring 2005.
“Size and Democracy: A Roundtable
Discussion on Frank Bryan’s Real Democracy” Presented at the Southern
Political Science Conference, New Orleans, January, 2005.
“Direct Democracy in Action: A
Critical Look at Frank Bryan’s Real Democracy” Presented at the American
Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, September, 2004.
“Social Science and Writing for
Popular Audiences: Is It Possible?” Presented before the League of Vermont
Writers, Manchester, Vermont, July 2000.
“Politics and Land Use Planning
in Vermont” Presented Before the Vermont Wildlife Conference, Basin Harbor
Club, Vergennes, Vermont, September, 2000.
“Technology, Politics, and the
Future of Local Government” Presented Before the Vermont League of Cities and
Towns, Killington, Vermont, September, 2000.
“Three Chords and the Truth: Town
Meeting Technology, and Democracy” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Atlanta Georgia, September, 1999.
“Diversity and the Search for
Democracy: From Aristotle to Putnam” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Vermont Council for the Humanities South Burlington, Vermont November,
1999.
“Town Meeting and the Story of
Democracy,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vermont Alliance for
Social Studies, Killington, Vermont December, 1999.
“How Does Town Meeting Treat Women”
Paper Presented at the Research in Progress Seminar sponsored by the Center
For Research on Vermont Burlington, Vermont February 1999.
“Decentralized Polities on a Planetary Scale: The Case for the Small Commonwealth (Vermont) in the World of Nations” Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, Salisbury, Connecticut, October 1998.
“‘Old Age Ain’t for Sissies;
Huntington House and the Issue of Regulating Senior Citizens’ Care in
Vermont” Paper presented at the Research in Progress Seminar
sponsored by the Center for Research on Vermont, Burlington,
Vermont, February, 1998.
“Technology and Democracy: The
Potential for Popular Governance in the 21st Century” Paper
Presented as Part of the Distinguished Lecture Series, The Department of
Political Science, The University of North Carolina at Ashville, November,
1997.
“Does Town Meeting Promote
Citizen Competence?” Paper presented at the Conference on Citizen
Competence sponsored by the Society for the Political Efficacy of the Good
Society (PEGS), Washington, DC, March 1995.
“Direct Democracy: Dead or
Alive--New Findings on Town Meeting” Paper presented at the Research In
Progress Seminar sponsored by the Center for Research on Vermont, Burlington,
Vermont, February 1995.
“The Case for Decentralism in the
Criminal Justice System” Paper delivered as part of the 1993 Colloquium
Series, Department of Criminal Justice, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, February, 1993.
“Democracy and
Administration: Three Paradigms Explored” Paper delivered at
Mississippi Political Science Association Meeting, Jackson, Mississippi,
January 26, 1993.
“Is Democracy Possible:
Technology and the Hope for Human Scale” Essay delivered as part of the
Political Science Department's Guest Lecture Series, Providence College,
Providence, Rhode Island, February 27, 1991.
“Town Meeting in the New England
Tradition” Delivered at the Nichols College Symposium on New England's
Traditions, November, 1986.
“Correlates of Participation in
the New England Town Meeting” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1986.
“The Size Variable and Direct
Democracy” Delivered at the Fourth Annual Chautauqua in Mississippi, The
School of Architecture and Center for Small Town Research and Design,
Mississippi State University, October 12, 1983.
“Agriculture Policy and Rural
Affairs: Insuring the Twain Shall Meet” Delivered before the
National Advisory Council on Rural Development, Washington, DC, USDA, August,
1983.
With Fred Schmidt, “The Nuclear
Freeze Vote in Town Meeting” Delivered at the Research in Progress
Seminar of the Center for Research on Vermont, The University of Vermont,
Burlington, Vermont, February, 1983.
“Are We a Nation Neither of Laws Nor Men But of Numbers?” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public Administration (Regions 1 and 2), Hartford, Connecticut, December, 1981).
“Learning Through Conflict:
The Mock Trial Experience” Delivered at the Annual New England Conference
on Teaching Students to Think, Amherst, Massachusetts, November, 1981.
“The Decline of the Party
System: The Case of Vermont” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
New England Political Science Association, Durham, New Hampshire, April, 1981.
“The Tyranny of Information
Systems” Delivered at VTASPA Seminar on Information Systems in the Public
Sector, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, March, 1981.
“Saying it with Numbers”
Delivered at the Research in Progress Seminar of the Center for Research on
Vermont, Brattleboro, Vermont, May, 1980.
“Should We Become Again 'A Nation
of Laws and Not of Men' (or Groups)? The Case for Administrative
Rationalism” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Public Administration (Regions 1 and 2), Portland, Maine, October 3‑5, 1979).
With David Rosenbloom, “The Size
of State Bureaucracies: An Exploratory Analysis” Delivered at the
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March,
1979.
“Town Meeting: Is There a
Role in Technological Society?” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
New England Political Science Association, Durham, New Hampshire, April, 1979.
“Toward a Theory of Rural
Politics” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, New York City, September, 1978.
“Policy‑Making in the Open
Forum: Town Meeting in the Rural Technopolity” Delivered at the
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia,
Nov., 1976.
“Manager Government in
Montana: A View from Two Cities” Delivered at the Annual
Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, Havre, Montana, May, 1976.
“Ecological Causation and
Partisan Breakthrough, Vermont‑‑A Case Study” Delivered at
the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, Fall, 1975.
“Correlates of Feminine
Participation in Town Meetings” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of
the Rural Sociology Society, San Francisco, California, August, 1975.
“Voting Behavior in a Two Party Rural Legislature: An Application of Cluster‑Bloc Analysis” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Western Social Sciences Association, Denver, Colorado, Spring, 1975.
“Legislators, Constituencies, and
Policy in the Montana Legislature” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
Montana Academy of Science, Billings, Montana, Spring, 1975.
“Comparative Town Meetings‑‑A
Search for Correlates of Citizen Involvement in Politics” Delivered at
the New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Northeastern
University, Spring, 1973.
MONOGRAPHS
_____, “Town Meeting:
Keeper of the Sacred Flame,” (Essay accompanying Vermont’s Contribution to the
Smithsonian’s 20th Century Collections, Washington, DC, 2000).
_____, “Preserving Vermont's
Political Heritage: Cosmetics or Culture,” in Marshall True, Mary
Woodruff and Kristin Peterson‑Ishaq (eds.) Teaching Vermont's Heritage
(Burlington, Vermont, The University of Vermont, 1984).
_____, with Robert E.
Eagle, “Teacher's Manual for Local Government Review in Montana: Power to
the People,” (Bureau of Government Research, The University of Montana,
Missoula, Montana, 1976).
BOOKS (Humor and General
Interest)
____, with Melissa Lee Bryan, The Very
Latest Vermont Quiz Book (Shelburne, VT: The New England Press, 2002).
____, with Bill Mares, The
Vermont Owner’s Manual (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 2000).
____, with Bill Mares, Out
of Order (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 1991).
____, with Bill
Mares, Out! The Vermont Secession Book (Shelburne, Vermont:
The New England Press, 1987).
____, with Melissa Lee
Bryan, The Vermont Quiz Book (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England
Press, 1986).
____, with Bill Mares,
Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England
Press, 1983).
____, with Bill Mares, The
Real Vermonter's Address Book, (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England
Press, 1984).
(Articles and Op. Ed. Pieces)
____, “A Christmas Card for Mom,” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press (December
28, 2001).
____, “Thinking About Civil Unions” (Op. Ed.) Rutland Herald (September
12, 2000).
____, “Font of Wisdom” Computer User Vermont (October 1997).
____, “Townscape Newbury" Vermont Magazine (November/December,
1989).
____, “Jade” Vermont Life (Spring, 1988).
____, “The Politics of the Growth Bill” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press
(April 12, 1988).
____, “A Peasant of West Brattleboro” (Review) Vermont Life (Summer,
1988).
____, “Education or Else” Window of Vermont (February, 1987).
____, “Notes On the Four Year Term” Window of Vermont (April, 1987).
____, “Who Are The Great Vermonters?” Vermont Sunday Magazine (September
27, 1987).
____, “Town Meeting at Wounded Knee” Window of Vermont (March,
1986).
____, “Only Jackasses Don’t Buckle Up” Window of Vermont (June, 1986).
____, “Lilacs and Homeland” Window of Vermont (August, 1986).
____, “The Vermont Character” Vermont Sunday Magazine (September 21,
1986).
____, “The Kiss of Death Poll” Window of Vermont (October, 1986).
____, “Knowing Vermont” Window of Vermont (December, 1986).
____, “Real Vermonters and Real Democracy” Window of Vermont (Spring,
1985).
____, “Corn? Fiddlesticks!” Window of Vermont (Summer, 1985).
____, “Vermont’s Political Soap Opera” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press (January
31,1984).
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
General
Recipient: Curtiss/Loyzelle Green Mountain
Boys’ State Director’s Award for over 20 years of delivering the keynote
address at the Governor’s Inauguration Ceremony, June, 2006.
Recipient: Named John G. McCullough Professor
of Political Science, University of Vermont, 2005
Designate: Member of the Blue-Ribbon Panel,
“Politics and the Public Trust: In Search of the Next Generation of Civic
Heroes,” with panel members New York Times correspondent Adam Clymer,
attorney/author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former Vermont Governor Madeleine
Kunin, and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy at the University of Vermont, March,
2005.
Designate: Selected for the “Prominent
Vermonters Box Lunch Auction” along with Governor James Douglas, Congressman
Bernie Sanders and others at the Annual Vermont History Expo, June 2004.
Recipient: Doctor
of Letters (All 26). Given by the
Newbury Elementary School, January 2004.
Designate: Delivered
the First Annual "Last Lecture" at the 1996 Convocation Ceremony of
the University of Vermont.
Recipient: Dean's
Lecture Award. Given by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the
University of Vermont, 1996.
Recipient: Andrew
E. Nuquist Town Government Award. Given by the Vermont League of Cities
and Towns, 1986.
Recipient: The
1986 Annual New England Local Hero Award. Given by the New England
Monthly for service on behalf of the defense of town meeting.
Recipient: Recognition
of Service Award National Advisory Council on Rural Development,
1986-1988 United States Department of Agriculture, 1988.
Recipient:
Certificate
of Service The American Society for Public Administration 1983-1985.
Teaching
Pi Sigma Alpha Award American
Political Science Association, Chicago (September 2004).
George V. Kidder Outstanding
Faculty Award, University of Vermont Alumni Association, (May 2004).
Class of 2004 Award for Valuable
Contributions to Students (April 2004).
Kroepsch-Maurice
Award for Excellence in Teaching University of Vermont, (October 1999).
Pi Sigma Alpha Award American
Political Science Association Atlanta Georgia, (September 1999).
Senior Class Council Award for
Contributions to the Students of the University of Vermont (Spring, 1991).
Faculty Development Grant for
Teaching Public Administration, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont, 1979.
The 1974 St. Michael's College
Community Service Award.
Co‑Recipient of the
dedication of the 1974 Shield (The St. Michael's Yearbook).
The Reverend Gerald E. Dupont
Award, 1974, given by the Student Senate of St. Michael's College.
Senior Appreciation Award for
Superior Teaching, St. Michael's College, (May 1973).
Senior Appreciation Award for
Superior Teaching, St. Michael's College, (May 1972).
Recognitions
“Free Vermont: Green Mountain
Boys Ponder Secession,” The American Conservative (December 19, 2005).
“In Vermont, A Scholar Records
Democracy at Work,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 1, 2005).
“Town Meeting Tradition,” The
View (March 2005).
“UVM People Making a Difference,”
The Greatness Within Our Grasp (October 2003).
“Interview with Professor Bryan,”
Vermont Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (Autumn,
2003).
“Frankly Speaking: An Interview
with UVM Professor Frank Bryan,” Vermont Magazine (Nov/Dec 2001)
“The Bull Will Kill You,” Vermont
Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (Autumn, 1996).
“Keeper of the Vermont Character”
feature article Yankee Magazine by Jay Stevens (March, 1992).
One
of “13 People Changing the Face of Vermont” Vermont Magazine”
(January/February 1990).
“Growing
Up in Newbury,” Vermont Magazine (November/December 1989).
“Frank
Bryan’s Two Worlds” feature article in The Valley Voice by Tom Hill
(November, 1988).
One the
20th Century Writers “Who Capture Vermont’s Unique Character” Vermont
Life (Winter, 1989).
One of “New England Leading
Humorists” Yankee Magazine (September, 1987).
Featured in: Kathleen Thompson, Portrait
of America: Vermont (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Roundtree Publishers, A
Turner Book and Video, 1987).
“An Interview with Frank Bryan:
Real Vermonters and Real Democracy,” Window of Vermont (Winter/Spring
1984-85).
Other
Positions (Past)
Faculty Senate, University of
Vermont, 2002-2004.
Admissions Committee, The Masters
of Public Administration Program, 1995-2004
Advisory Editor Current Editions (State
and Local Government) 1993-1997.
Visiting Professor and Director
of MPA Program, Mississippi State University, 1992-93.
Graduate Officer, Political
Science Department, 1990-1992.
Curriculum Committee, Department
of Political Science, the University of Vermont, 1990-1993.
Faculty Bicentennial Committee,
College of Arts and Sciences, 1990-92.
Advisory Committee, College of
Arts and Sciences Newsletter, 1990-93.
Senior Editor, Window of
Vermont, 1985‑87.
Contributing Editor, Window of
Vermont, 1984‑85.
Scholar in Residence, Republican
National Committee, Washington, D.C., January 2 ‑ April 30, 1986.
Director, Master of Public
Administration Program, the University of Vermont, 1983‑85.
Member, National Rural
Development Commission, Washington, D.C., 1982-85.
President, Vermont Chapter
of the American Association for Public Administration 1982-1984.
Assistant Professor, Department
of Political Science, The University of Vermont, 1977‑83.
Visiting Professor, Department of
Political Science, Middlebury College, 1977‑78.
Adjunct Professor, Johnson State
College, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984.
Administrative Director, Inter‑University
MPA Program, Montana State University ‑ The University of Montana, 1976.
Director, Summer Institute in
Teacher Training for Local Government Review (Funded under Title I of the
Higher Education Act of 1965), Montana State University, Summer, 1975.
Head, Department of Political
Science, Montana State University, 1975‑76.
Chairman of Government and
Associate Professor, Montana State University, 1974‑75.
Associate Professor of Political
Science, St. Michael's College, 1973‑74.
Associate Editor, The Vermont
Freeman, 1969‑70.
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, St. Michael's College, 1970‑73.
Instructor of Political Science,
St. Michael's College, 1968‑70.
Research Assistant, The Eagleton
Institute of Politics, 1968.
N.D.E.A. Research Fellow, The
University of Connecticut, 1967‑68.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The
University of Connecticut, 1965‑67.
Social Studies Teacher, Orleans
High School, Orleans, Vermont, 1964‑65.
Assistant Director of Financial
Aid, The University of Vermont, 1964.