Honors Thesis Defense Scheduled for Joseph Friedman

Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Joseph Robert Friedman Student presentation open to interested faculty and students (closed session to follow student presentation) Defense Date, Time, Location: Monday, April 28th, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Allen House conference room Thesis Title: Deconstructing the “Curative Revolution v. Neo-Eugenics” Dichotomy: A Discursive-Framing Analysis of Genomic Medical Science in Vermont Advisor: […]

Jeanne Shea Wins the Peter J. Seybolt Award

Anthropology professor Jeanne Shea was awarded this years Peter J. Seybolt Award to conduct ethnographic research on long-term care community cooperatives in China. In this emerging care alternative, healthy retirees from the community volunteer to provide daily care to an infirm elderly neighbor. In return for their service, when the retirees need caregiving later on […]

Dr. Mares Awarded the Frank Bryan Research Award

It has just been announced that Teresa Mares is a recipient of the Frank Bryan Research Award from the Center for Research on Vermont. This award will allow her to pursue her research project La Otra Frontera (The Other Border): Exploring Latino/a Migrant Foodways during the summer of 2014. Through this project, Teresa will be […]