PROFESSIONAL VITA 2010
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, 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 –
Starksboro Art
and Soul Community Project, 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 –
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
____,
“History
of Politics in New England,” in Princeton
Encyclopedia of American Political History (Princeton University
Press,
2010).
____, “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
____, “Vermont’s
Genetic Code: Toward a Decentralist Manifesto,” Vermont
Commons (Winter, 2010).
____, Book review, “On the Job: The Brattleboro Public Works
Department” by Wayne Carhart and Charles
Fish, All Potholes are Local: A
Timely Look at Politics and Public Works (Brattleboro
Reformer, September 2009).
____,
“Hill’s Country,” The University Bookman (Fall
2008).
____, “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 (Nov/Dec,
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): 16‑21.
____, “Town Meetings -- A Relic,” 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
“Collective Law-Making
in the New
England Town Meeting: A Note on Procedural Requirements,” Presented at
the “Collective
Decision-Making: From Neurons to Societies” Conference, Santa Fe
Institute,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 7-11, 2009.
“Real
Democracy/Direct Democracy, When
Citizens Decide and the New England Town Meetings and How They Work,”
Presented
to the Montreal Citizen Summit (by invitation), University of Quebec at
Montreal, June 7, 2009.
“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:
National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion
Award, December, 2010.
Recipient:
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters, Marlboro College, June, 2008.
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, University of Vermont, (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, Vt, 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.