Middlebury raised more than $105 million in gifts and pledges in fiscal year 2026, helping it surpass its ambitious goals for ...

In this introduction to ecology and evolutionary biology we will cover the topics of interspecific interactions (competition, predation, mutualism), demography and life-history patterns, succession ...

James L. Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002. He taught at several institutions before coming to Middlebury and has held writing fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research ...

Spring 2026: Monday 2:15-3:15, Tuesday 1:30-2:30, Wednesday 2:15-3:15, or by appointment.

Sarah Stroup has taught at Middlebury since 2008 and is the incoming director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research. During her 2025-26 sabbatical year, she was a senior visiting fellow ...

Throughout the history of the United States, Americans have created a complex set of meanings pertaining to the environments (wild, pastoral, urban, marine) in which they live. From European-Native ...

Game theory is general in scope and has been used to provide theoretical foundations for phenomena in most of the social and behavioral sciences. Economic examples include market organization, ...

My research focuses on using geochronology, remote sensing, and modeling to understand the timing and rates of surface processes. Much of my work involves cosmogenic dating and optically stimulated ...

Paul M. Sommers is the Paige-Wright Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (1976). For the last 50 years Professor Sommers ...

Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen), GETTING-Plurality ...

A survey of Greek history from Homer to the Hellenistic period, based primarily on a close reading of ancient sources in translation. The course covers the emergence of the polis in the Dark Age, ...

An introduction to the writing of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction through analysis of writings by modern and contemporary poets and prose writers and regular discussion of student writing.