What is a buddha? How does a person become one? The life of the Buddha is one of the most influential stories ever, but it was not the focus of the earliest Buddhist literature. When narratives of his ...

Ioana Uricaru, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, was born in Romania and grew up during the country’s communist dictatorship, experiencing the violent ...

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, ...

Professor Waldron teaches courses on the South Asian religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, Tibetan religion and history, comparative psychologies and philosophies of mind, and theory and ...

Rebecca Mitchell joined the faculty at Middlebury College in January 2016. She studied both music (piano performance) and Russian language and culture at the University of Saskatchewan (B.Mus.), ...

Jason Blazakis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) where he focuses on threat financing, sanctions, violent extremism, and special operations related research.

Linus Owens thinks about movements, places, and the conflicts that bring them together and push them apart. In past work, he has brought these interests together in exploring how anarchists organize ...

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 ...

Professor Troyer takes a broad view of “localization” that encompasses researching whether and how an entity should expand globally, implementing the technical modifications needed to support other ...

Laura Burian, Professor of Chinese/English translation and interpretation and C.V. Starr Professor in Linguistics and Language, earned her MA in Chinese Translation and Interpretation program at the ...

I am a glaciologist focused on describing the processes and societal impacts of glacier and ice sheet change. My work brings applied math and numerical modeling together with community-engaged ...

Johanna Parker is Lead Interpreter for Education and Training at Stanford Health Care. She is a CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE INTERPRETER TM and Federally- and California- Certified Court Interpreter, and ...