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In addition to the undergraduate college, Middlebury operates the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, a leading international professional graduate school based in Monterey, California; the Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 17 countries and 38 cities around the globe; the Middlebury Language Schools, which celebrated their centennial in 2015 and educate 1,500 students each summer in Vermont; the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, founded in 1920 and offering summer classes in Ripton, Vermont; Oxford, England; and Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences in Ripton, Vermont; and the Middlebury School of the Environment in Kunming and Dali, China.
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Confinement was the essence of Linda Martell’s brief career as a country star in the 1970s – and it’s the exact sort of fate that Beyoncé has sought to avoid.
Her new album, ‘Cowboy Carter,’ arrives at a moment when country music’s reputation as overwhelmingly white is finally starting to crack.
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
From the pre-Roe years to today, country musicians have written about the realities of life with restrictions on reproductive rights.
How did the letter x get its enduring role as a symbol of the unknown? A mathematician explains why it’s hard to say for sure.
Since Facebook removed online hate groups and individuals from its platform, extremist groups are increasingly organizing in more discreet ways.
During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed.
The founder of a violent anti-government group has been sent to prison for seditious conspiracy. Experts explain what that means.
Generative AIs may make up information they serve you, meaning they may potentially spread science misinformation. Here’s how to check the accuracy of what you read in an AI-enhanced media landscape.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is just one of many artists from Appalachia who are probing the crisis in their work, while taking pains to ensure that it doesn’t define the region and its people.
The Biden administration is finalizing the first federal limits on two compounds, PFOA and PFOS, in drinking water. These so-called ‘forever chemicals’ have been linked to numerous health effects.
A House committee released details of Trump’s tax returns from his time in office – and they show he paid zilch in 2020.
The US select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol has wrapped up its nearly two-year probe of that day’s violent but unsuccessful insurrection.
The historic conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other co-defendant for seditious conspiracy has implications for free speech and the future of the militia movement in the US.
Halloween was virtually nonexistent in South Korea until about a decade ago. But commercialization is taking popular holidays to unlikely places across the globe.
From its origins as a Celtic pagan ceremony to its celebration of all things gruesome and ghoulish today, Halloween has been reinvented over the centuries.
Two men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 have been found guilty. Their backgrounds and the trial itself raise concerns about the role of extremism in America.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division.
Starting college after finishing high school is an exciting phase of a student’s life. But students need to prepare for the new challenges college brings.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation, Middlebury
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Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Professor of Psychology Emerita, Middlebury
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Director of Research and Instruction, Middlebury
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Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Professor and Program Chair Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury
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Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Middlebury
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Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Middlebury
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Graduate Research Assistant at James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of American Studies and English, Middlebury
