Middlebury College Annual Report 2009-2010

1 Rohatyn Center for International Affairs Annual Report 2009-2010

Middlebury CollegeRohatyn Center for International Affairs

Annual Report 2009-2010

challenging; there were few organizations that focused on the topic, and many scholars wrote on historical circumstances. My advisers could have urged me to choose a smaller topic. Instead, they encouraged me to pack up my bags and, with the help of the Senior Work Fund, to travel to Myanmar (Burma) where I could experience the geopolitical tug-of-war between India and China. My academic life at Middlebury seemed to be a concoction of fateful choices and the guidance, patience, and contagious passion of my professors.

My adventure at Middlebury taught me that I love solving problems, packing up a suitcase and boarding a flight, and tak-ing risks (hopefully, intelligent ones). After writing my thesis, I know I want to go back to China and India and work there. Asia is throbbing with changes—good and bad—and I am craving to be in the midst of it. I would enjoy doing diplomatic service in India and am considering taking the Indian For-eign Service exam. The New Delhi heat (after all this Vermont snow) and buildings that retell the history of India seem to make it a good place for my next adventure.

—Vrutika Mody ’10

Middlebury College was different from anything I had experienced four years ago—the location, the demograph-ics, the snow. My parents understood the value of an interna-tional education and worked hard to send my sister and me to the Singapore American School. When I was selecting which college to attend, I looked for one that presented adventures unexplored but still maintained what I loved about Singapore: the multitude of languages spoken and the diversity of race and religion. I grew up in a city, and you could see the con-crete jungle of Singapore from my living room; Middlebury had rolling stretches of green, stacks of hay, and cows to get acquainted with. The promise in the admissions brochures that 12 percent of my peers would be international and that over 60 percent studied abroad sold me. So, without visiting the campus or taking the college tour, I traveled over 36 hours to start my life as a Middlebury student. I got attached to Middle-bury’s landscape and the small community feel. Singapore’s temperature never budged from 90 degrees; at Middlebury, my education in snow included learning to ski, ice skate, and ap-preciate hockey—attending every men’s hockey game by senior year (thermal underwear included, always). As an international student, I was fortunate enough to have a local “host family.” A desire to understand their world—their passion for nature, their emphasis on mom-and-pop enterprises and social service proj-ects—encouraged me to become involved in town. During my sophomore February break, I braved the winter and stayed on campus to volunteer at WomenSafe. It was an empowering ex-perience, and we worked on promoting educational programs to prevent domestic and sexual violence. On campus, there was a sense that student activism did not simply get deflected from the walls of Old Chapel. Instead, as a student government sena-tor, I found willing ears when I wanted to push for a greater focus on public speaking or create a South Asian department that taught Hindi.

As much as Main Street grew on me, I often missed the hustle and bustle of Asia—the sound of traffic and political protests—and I lapped up anything with even a slight international focus. I was lucky to find the Rohatyn Center for International Af-fairs, and I loved coming in to work. Those hours when I was drawing up graphs for Professor Stanger’s article on military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan or editing Professor Rosen-berg’s manuscript on maritime piracy in South East Asia satis-fied my craving for stories from outside the Middlebury bubble. Thinking of returning to Asia, I had taken Chinese on a whim my freshman year, and now it was defining my interest in Chi-nese politics. In my junior year, I left to study abroad in Beijing and Hangzhou. In China, every other person seemed to have some comment about my being Indian—ties to Buddhism, the 1962 war, my skin color—and I returned to Middlebury certain I wanted to write my thesis on Sino-Indian relations. It was

Vrutika Mody ’10 in Singapore during Diwali (the Indian New Year).

My Next Adventure


A Decade of Engagement June 2010

It has been an honor and a privilege to direct Middlebury’s Center for International Affairs from its founding

in 1999 to the present. Endowed by the Rohatyns in October 2002, our center’s annual reports have chronicled the rich array of activities that RCFIA has pursued and the extraordinary collection of innovative individuals—too numerous to mention, but not to thank here—who have contributed to its lively mission. I cannot think of more exciting or rewarding work than the experience I have had in being part of this venture, one which steadfastly celebrates and promotes the free exchange of ideas.

Despite the financial constraints with which all endowed institutions wrestled, 2009-2010 was a year of continued exciting opportunities and events at the Rohatyn Center. As is typically the case, October was a particularly action-packed month of numerous standing-room-only lectures, with Bettina Matthias of the German department in conjunction with the German Embassy and a team of co-conspirators organizing a wonderful celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which included a visit from the Czech ambassador to the United States, Petr Kolar. President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass dropped by in February. In April, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post made the case for why newspapers will survive, despite all appearances to the contrary. And students were a constant catalyst for rewarding events, from a panel on the meaning of Copenhagen, in February, to an outstanding symposium on India, in March.

This year’s Executive in Residence program featured managing director of Catamount Ventures, Jed Smith ’88, who engaged both sustainability concerns and the information revolution, themes of special concern to Middlebury students, in penetrating and illuminating ways. As our youngest EIR participant to date, Jed connected in an unusual way with current Middlebury students, as well as with the community at large. Now in its second year, the “Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics” lecture series brought us another host of fascinating speakers, demonstrating the significant interest in linguistics that exists and continues to grow at the College.

We were especially pleased to witness the official birth of the Middlebury-Monterey Lecture Series, which was a fitting run-up to the formal integration of our two institutions on June 30, 2010. Four colleagues from the Monterey Institute participated in a stimulating series of meetings with members of the Middlebury community with congruent interests, culminating in a public lecture on their particular area of expertise. Topics ranged from biodiversity conservation to human security to linguistics to nonproliferation, and it was exciting to see the myriad points of shared interest at our two institutions,

which have since become one.

Everything has a season, and this is as true of directing a center as it is of everything else. Jeff Cason, Knox Professor of International Studies and Political Science, will be assuming leadership of the Rohatyn Center on July 1, 2010, and I am confident he will lead the center to the next level in its second decade of existence. I enjoyed every minute of my time at the helm, especially the experience of working with such extraordinarily accomplished and committed people. The staff of the Rohatyn Center are at the top of that list, and Martha Baldwin, Carolann Davis, and Charlotte Tate deserve a special round of applause for their critical role in what the Rohatyn Center is today, as well as for the important role they will play in the years ahead. Ed Knox merits special thanks for serving admirably as acting director on two separate occasions. And of course, the center would not exist in its present vibrant form without the abiding confidence of the College administration and the steadfast support of Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn. So allow me to conclude with a heartfelt thank you to the Middlebury faculty, staff, and students, and to the center's many visitors, who made my time as director so memorable and rewarding; you know who you are! Here’s to the brightest of futures.

With gratitude,Allison StangerDirector, Rohatyn Center for International AffairsRussell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and EconomicsChair, Political Science Department


Getting In Touch

Allison StangerDirector, [email protected]

Charlotte TateAssistant Director, [email protected]

Martha BaldwinProgram Coordinator, [email protected]

Carolann DavisProgram Coordinator,International Politics and Economics, and International [email protected]

FAX: 802.443.2050

International Affairs at Middlebury College 2009–2010

Mark Williams, Director, International Politics and Economics

Thierry Warin, Director, International StudiesArmelle Crouzieres-Ingenthron, Director, African StudiesThomas Moran, Director, East Asian StudiesGuntram Herb, Director, European StudiesDarién Davis, Director, Latin American Studies Larry Yarbrough, Director, Middle East Studies Michael Kraus, Director, Russian and East European StudiesCynthia Packert, Director, South Asian Studies

Michael Geisler, Vice President, Language Schools, Schools Abroad, and Graduate ProgramsJeffrey Cason, Dean, International ProgramsKathy Foley-Gorgio, Dean, International Student and Scholar Services

RCFIA Web Site www.middlebury.edu/international/rcfiaInternational Politics and Economics Web Site www.middlebury.edu/academics/ipeInternational Studies Web Site www.middlebury.edu/academics/is


RCFIA Mission

The Rohatyn Center for Inter-national Affairs (RCFIA) supports the College’s goal of advancing global understanding that radiates from a core of linguistic and cultural competency. RCFIA works with a faculty committee to create cocur-ricular programming that expands opportunities for students, and supports faculty in their teaching and profes-sional development. Programs include Executive in Residence, Scholar in Residence, the International Studies Colloquium, international symposia and lectures, and outreach activities. RCFIA disseminates current research through a Working Paper Series; we also administer institutional grants in international studies, an undergraduate international research travel grant program, and a sponsored internship program. We work with the Career Services Office and other campus organizations to expand opportunities for internships and other types of direct experience that give students a sense of how the world looks and works from perspectives other than their own.

Cover photograph by Casey Kelbaugh ’96.

Featured throughout are images from Middlebury College’s 2009 study abroad photo contest.

Image (preceeding page): Rice Harvest, Central Highlands, Madagascar by Nicholas Sohl ’10.

Inside

1 Director’s Report

4 Lectures and Events

7 Global Vision–Global Reach

8 Colloquia

9 Executive in Residence

10 Language Works: An Invitation

to Linguistics

11 Symposia

12 International Research Travel Grants

13 International Thesis Forum

16 International Thesis Awards

17 Student Internships

24 Working Paper Series

26 Selected Faculty Books 2009–2010


Lectures and Events

During the 2009-2010 academic year, the Rohatyn Center sponsored and supported a wide array of cocurricular and internationally oriented events

that spanned the globe and crossed many disciplines. We welcome you to visit the video archives section of our Web site www.middlebury.edu/international/rcfia/archives to view recordings of many of our events. In addition, our programs are featured on the UChannel (also known as the University Channel), of which the Rohatyn Center is a charter member. An initiative of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the UChannel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public: www.middlebury.edu/international/rcfia/univchan.

September 30“Ethnicity, Gender, and Citizenship in Eastern Europe and Beyond” with Middlebury College discussants Kevin Moss, professor of Russian, and Nikolina Dobreva, visiting instructor in film and media culture.

October 1“China Today: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the PRC” with Middlebury College panelists John Berninghausen, Truscott Professor of Chinese; Maggie Clinton, instructor in history; Tom Moran, professor of Chinese; Jessica Teets, instructor in political science; Weihe Xu, associate professor of Chinese; and Yunfei Ren ’10.

October 7“To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan” by Nicholas Schmidle, journalist.

October 9“Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo” by Peter Andreas, associate professor of political science and international studies, and director, International Relations Program, Brown University.

October 14“Persians, Protests, and Politicians: Who Is in Charge in Iran?” by Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent, Los Angeles Times.

October 15“The Origins of Political Complexity in the Maya Area” by Norman Hammond, professor of archaeology, Boston College.

October 16“Hoshino Tomoyuki and the End of Modern Japanese Literature” by John Treat, chair, department of East Asian languages and literatures, Yale University, and coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies.

October 23“‘No Blacks Around?’ Cadernos Negros and the Construction of Black Identity in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature” by Emanuelle Oliveira, associate professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature, Vanderbilt University.

October 29“Sri Lankan Muslims: Between Ethno-Nationalism and the Global Ummah” by Dennis McGilvray, professor and chair, department of anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder.

October 30“Reflections on 1989: Twenty Years of Czech-American and Transatlantic Relations” by Petr Kolár, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States.

November 13“Start Again: Rethinking Afghanistan in a Girls’ Orphanage” by Ian Pounds, writer.

November 12“The New Geopolitics of Energy: Beyond the Crisis” by Michael T. Klare, director and Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College.

November 12“U.S.-China Relations in the Age of Obama” by David Lampton, director, Chinese Studies, Nixon Center, and George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.


Lectures and Events

November 14“‘Your mother house’: A View of Family in the Caribbean” by Merle Hodge, visiting professor of English, Dartmouth College, and senior lecturer, faculty of humanities and education, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

November 16“The Labor of Women and the Learning of Girls in Afghanistan” by Gary Moorehead, founder, Marigold Fund.

November 18“Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures” by Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

November 19“Women, Alterity, and Mexican Identity in como agua para chocolate” by Tina Escaja, professor of Spanish, University of Vermont.

January 19Screening and discussion of What Are We Doing Here? with Tim Klein, filmmaker.

January 21“Reading Beyond Orientalism: Why Polemics Never Really Die” by Daniel Varisco, professor of anthropology, Hofstra University.

February 18“What Happened in Copenhagen and What Does It Mean Now [for America and the World]?” with Middlebury College panelists Jamie Henn ’07, 350.org; Christopher McGrory Klyza, Robert ’35 and Helen ’38 Stafford Professor of Public Policy; William McKibben, scholar in residence in environmental studies; Rhidaya Trivedi ’12; and Benjamin Wessel ’11.

February 18“Survivors of Conflict: Agents of Change” by Gretchen Wallace, Global Roots.

February 19“The Idyll, the Ideal, and the Real: The Rediscovery of Greek Architecture and Its Consequences in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” by Frank Salmon, professor of the history of art, Cambridge University, England.

February 19“War of Necessity, War of Choice” by Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations.

February 22Reading from The Bread of Angels—A Journey to Love and Faith by Stephanie Saldaña ’99, author.

March 2“‘Out of History into Nature’: Landscape, Labor, and Race in Paraguay, 1900-1950” by Jennifer French, associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature, and director, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College.

March 4“Crude Democracy: Resource Wealth and Political Regimes” by Thad Dunning, associate professor of political science, Yale University.

March 8“1491: Landscapes of the Americas before Columbus” by Charles Mann, journalist.

March 9“Strange Democracy: An Evening with Guillermo Gómez-Peña,” MacArthur Fellow.

March 9“President Obama’s Foreign Policy One Year Out” by Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

March 10Screening and discussion of Captain Abu Raed with Amin Matalqa, filmmaker.


Lectures and Events

March 16“Bodies, Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship” with panelists Holly Allen, assistant professor of American studies, Middlebury College; Natasha Chang, visiting assistant professor of Italian, Middlebury College; and Brian Gilley, associate professor of anthropology, University of Vermont.

April 4Concert of Russian folk songs and instrumental music by Zolotoi Plios.

April 6“The Digital Duel: Resistance and Repression in an Online World” by Daryn Cambridge ’03, director for knowledge and digital strategies, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, and adjunct professor, American University.

April 12“The Decline of the Russian Village and Its Impact on Russian Politics and Identity” by Peter Savodnik ’94, journalist.

April 15“Gender Inclusion for Poverty-Alleviation in a Market Economy: Opportunities and Challenges” by Vanita Viswanath, chief executive officer, Udyogini.

April 21Screening and discussion of Grandma Has a Video Camera: Documenting the Transnational Experience with Tânia Cypriano, filmmaker.

April 21“Work/Song: The Musical Transformation of Labor, Culture, and Place” by Bennett Konesni ’05, director, Sylvester Manor.

April 26“Newspapers Will Survive” by Walter Pincus, national security reporter, Washington Post. Part of the Meet the Press Series, organized by the Middlebury College Institute on Working Journalism.

“Burakaunui Bay Post Surf ”New ZealandIan Durkin ’10


Global Vision–Global Reach

The Middlebury–Monterey Lecture Series was established for Middlebury College and its affiliate Monterey Institute for International Studies to

promote shared expertise and education through the exchange of faculty speakers as the two institutions deepen their integration.

September 17 “Can the Private Sector Be Trusted to Protect Nature? Conservation Cowboys in Africa and Latin America” by Jeffrey Langholz, associate professor of international environmental policy, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

October 2“Human Security in East Asia: Embracing Global Norms through Regional Cooperation in Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and HIV/AIDS” by Tsuneo Akaha, professor of international policy studies, and director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

April 1“Ecological Linguistics and Action-Based Teaching and Learning” by Leo van Lier, professor of educational linguistics, TESOL/TFL Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

April 28“The State of the Nonproliferation Regime: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” by William Potter, director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation, and Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Global Vision–Global Reach:The Middlebury–Monterey Lecture Series

Tsuneo Akaha specializes in Japanese foreign and security polity, international relations of the Asia Pacific, international political economy, and internatinal marine affairs.

Leo van Lier has taught in Britain, Peru, Mexico, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands. He currently coordinates the Monterey Institute’s Certificate in Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

Bill Potter has served as a consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the RAND Corporation, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Nonproliferation Panel.

Jeffrey Langholz’s research focuses on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. His passion is identifying and evaluating land use options that are ecologically, economically, and socially viable.


Colloquia

Through the International Studies Colloquium, students, faculty, staff, and members of the community at large gather over lunch to learn about

international research activities. Our speakers include Middlebury College faculty and alumni, as well as other scholars and professionals in the international arena.

September 11“Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants” by Middlebury College seniors Kathleen Hartley, Sophia University, Japan: Organic Farming in Japan; Stephanie Joyce, Middlebury School in Latin America, Chile: Glacial Meltwater as an Urban Resource; Deanna Tamborelli, University of Virginia, Peru: Saving Peru’s Waterways: The Effectiveness of Grassroots Environmental Activism.

October 9“A Canadian Looks at America” by Andrew Cohen, professor of journalism and international affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa.

October 16“Free Speech or Hate Speech? The Danish Cartoon Controversy in the European Legal Context” by Erik Bleich, associate professor of political science, Middlebury College.

October 23“Social Entrepreneurship Meets Venture Philanthropy: The Story of mothers2mothers” by David A. Torres ’85, mothers2mothers. Followed by the career conversation

“From Investment Banking to NGO Work in Africa: An Awakening” between Torres and students.

October 30“Too Much Tuscan Sun?–Americans Write about Italy” by Edward C. Knox, College Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College.

November 6“Recoiling from Politics, Reinvigorating Past Glories: The Hybrid Blend of Traditional Aesthetics and Modernism in Contemporary-Classical Chinese Ink Painting, 1979-2009” by John Berninghausen, Truscott Professor of Chinese Studies, Middlebury College.

November 13“Fumatrici: Women and Cigarettes in Italy from the Belle Époque to the 1960s” by Carl Ipsen, professor of history, Indiana University.

November 20“Hope for Change: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities in Afghanistan” with Middlebury College panelists Jeffrey Lunstead, diplomat in residence, Will Bellaimey ’10, Bilal Sarwary ’10, and HamzaUsmani ’10.

January 15“Aids Activism at Home and Abroad” by Patricia Siplon, associate professor of political science, St. Michael’s College.

February 19“Can You Help Me Get a Job? How Low-Wage Guatemalan Immigration Operates like a Pyramid Scheme” by David Stoll, associate professor of anthropology, Middlebury College.

March 12“Running for (Czech) President” by Jan Svejnar, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration; director, International Policy Center; and professor of economics and public policy, University of Michigan.

April 9“Reading My Family’s (and Ron Liebowitz’s) Secret Police Files in Prague” by Michael Kraus, Frederick C. Dirks Professor of Political Science, and director, Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury College.

April 23“Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants” by Middlebury College juniors: Shannon Engelman, School for International Training, Tanzania: A Vegetation Study in the Coral Rag Forest; Kaitlynn Saldanha, Middlebury School in Latin America, Argentina: Sustainable Development in Patagonia; Jonas Schoenefeld, Middlebury School in Latin America, Chile: Sustainable University Initiative Chile.


Executive in Residence

Through the Executive in Residence Program, distinguished leaders visit the Middlebury College campus to share practical knowledge and insights on

current international trends and issues with members of the College community. Executives in residence participate in the stimulating Middlebury College experience by leading policy seminars, conducting career conversations, and meeting with small groups of faculty and students. Each program is tailored to the strengths and experience of the individual leader.

Executive in Residence2009-2010

In October, we welcomed Executive in Residence Jed Smith ’88, managing director of Catamount Ventures. Catamount is rooted in the art and creative process of company building and serves the gap in the market between angel investors and large venture funds. Prior to joiningCatamount, Smith founded drugstore.com, in 1997, and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz, and Jeff Bezos. And before drugstore.com, Smith cofounded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail-store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software. Previously, he was vice president of sales at Tribe Computer Works (a networking hardware and software company that was successfully sold). He began his career in technology working for Tom Siebel and subsequently Marc Benioff at Oracle Corporation, ultimately serving as district manager for Eastern Region.

Smith has advised many private companies and currently serves on the boards of Linden Lab, Seventh Generation, Flock, Ecohaus, Nest Collective, Siterra, and Revolution Foods. Jed has also served on the board of several education and nonprofit institutions, including the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Shackelton Schools, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. He earned a BA from Middlebury and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

“Christmas Morning in Patagonia”Fitzroy, Argentina

Ian Evans ’10

Smith’s visit was cosponsored by the Career Services Office, the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, and the Rohatyn Center. He shared his wealth of experience in the following formal and informal sessions:

Howard E. Woodin ES Colloquium Series presentation: “Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, and the Importance of Soulful Capital.”

Classroom visit to Economics of Strategy taught by Gizem Saka, visiting assistant professor of economics.

Discussion on “Virtual Reality and Virtual Spaces” with members of Library and Information Services.

Career conversation about entrepreneurship with students.


Language Works:An Invitation to Linguistics

Language is more than just a means of communication: it is a cultural, social, and psychological phenomenon. The field of linguistics

is concerned with the scientific study of language as a universal part of human behavior and thinking, the place of language in human life and society, and the ways in which language is organized to fulfill the needs of the people it serves and the functions it performs. To this end, linguists take as their field of inquiry language in all its different forms and manifestations around the world. This interdisciplinary field, therefore, provides links between the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education and the natural sciences.

Organized by Assistant Professor of German Florence Feiereisen, “Language Works” provides opportunities for Middlebury students to get to know resources in linguistics on campus; faculty members and their work in the various subfields of linguistics. The Rohatyn Center was honored to cosponsor the lecture series “Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics.”

October 7“Study Abroad in China: Do Students Become More Fluent?” by Hang Du, assistant professor of Chinese, Middlebury College.

October 28“Applied Linguistics 101: Language Matters in the Worlds of Education, Geopolitics, and Social Justice” by Shawna Shapiro, visiting assistant professor of writing, Middlebury College.

December 2“Raising Bilingual Children in Monolingual Environments: A Case Study” by Ana Martinez-Lage, associate professor of Spanish, Middlebury College.

April 2An informal panel to discuss the linguistics field and introduce the new linguistics minor at Middlebury College” with Leo van Lier, professor of educational linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Middlebury College faculty members.

April 14“Linguistic Ideologies: Quechua and Spanish in the Andes” by Antje G. Muntendam, assistant professor of Spanish, Middlebury College.

“Schoolgirl Walking Home from School”Ifotaka, Southern Madagascar

Nicholas Sohl ’10


Symposia

Symposia

Symposia with an international focus are an enriching part of life at Middlebury. Each year, the Rohatyn Center collaborates with a wide range of

College departments and student groups to bring scholars and professionals to campus for in-depth and extended discussions. Highlights of symposia include the following.

“Freedom Without Walls: Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-2009”

October 19-24—organized by Middlebury College Associate Professor of German Bettina Matthias

Highlights:

•“TheEndoftheColdWar:TheNighttheMasksFell” by Igor Lukes, professor of history, Boston University.

• “CitizenshipandNationalIdentity”withMiddlebury College panelists Erik Bleich, associate professor of political science; Michael Geisler, professor of German; Roger Russi, visiting assistant professor of German; and Susan Burch, associate professor of American studies.

• “OfMapsandMen:RepresentingDividedGermany” by Guntram Herb, professor of geography, Middlebury College.

“De-Romanticizing India: Domestic Developments and Foreign Policy Outlook”

March 3-4—organized by Vrutika Mody ’10

Highlights:

• ScreeninganddiscussionofRunaway Grooms with Ali Kazimi, professor of film, York University.

• “IndianForeignPolicyandGlobalOutlook”with panelists Walter Andersen, South Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University; Lisa Curtis, senior research fellow, Heritage Foundation; and Jeffrey Lunstead, diplomat in residence, Middlebury College.

• “DomesticIssuesandChallengesinContemporary India” with panelists Saleem Ali, associate professor of environmental studies, University of Vermont; Walter Andersen, Johns Hopkins University; and Ian Barrow, associate professor of history, Middlebury College.

“Policing Citizenship”

March 5-6—organized by Middlebury College’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

The 2010 Gensler Endowment/Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity Symposium: “Interrogating Citizenship: Sex, Race, Class, and Regimes of Power”

April 2-3—organized by the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, Middlebury College.

“Chepstow Castle”Wales

Charlotte Hsu ’11


International ResearchTravel Grants

Middlebury students preparing to write senior theses can receive generous support for their international research through the Rohatyn

Center’s International Research Travel Grant program. Students from any discipline or program whose proposed project is international in its orientation are eligible to apply. Funding is provided by the Rohatyn Center, and the RCFIA Advisory Committee selects the awardees.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, an international studies major, will investigate suicide in the form of self-immolation as an increasing response to domestic violence in Afghanistan.

Maxwell Benjamin, a double major in economics and mathematics, will conduct an economic experiment testing worker output evaluation differences between American and Japanese citizens.

Molly Brister, an international studies major, will examine the legal ramifications of the Ottoman millet system on sectarian relations in Lebanon.

Alhaji Jalloh, a political science major, will research the influence of (economic) development on religious extremism in Mali and Senegal.

Xiaoxue Weng, an international politics and economics major, will research what political factors shape Japanese emergency assistance abroad.

Forrest Orme ’10 visited the fortress of Rumeli Husari in Istanbul, Turkey, while conducting RCFIA-sponsored thesis research in summer 2009.

View of the Twelve Apostles Mountains in Capetown, South Africa, where Elizabeth Sutcliffe ’10 carried out RCFIA-sponsored thesis research in summer 2009.

An excavation pit at San Jose de Morro on the north coast of Peru, where Elissa Bullion ’10 traveled in summer 2009 to conduct RCFIA-sponsored thesis research.


International Thesis Forum

Middlebury seniors showcase their international research before an audience of faculty, staff, and students at the Rohatyn

Center’s annual International Thesis Forum. Although the students may be majors in any department or program, their work must be on an international topic. The result is a rich array of internationally oriented honors theses across the disciplines. Many of the students studied abroad, and their research was greatly informed by that experience and their foreign-language competence.

Hans Anders, environmental studies major: “The Bridge and Me: A German Exchange Student Explores a Rural Community Crisis.”

Stephanie Astaphan, international politics and economics major: “PetroCaribe: Promoting Development or Furthering Dependence?”

Elizabeth Bates, French major: “L’enseignement des langues vivantes étrangères: Le talon d’Achille du système d’éducation français” (Foreign language instruction: the Achilles’ heel of the French education system).

Seniors (left to right) Elliot Gay, Erin Gosselin, Mia Monnier, Laria Hambleton, Vrutika Mody, and Alex Klikunas.

Seniors (left to right) Phil Houten, Elizabeth Sutcliffe, Liz Edouard, Elissa Bullion, and Molly Farber.

David Becker, international politics and economics major: “An Analysis of the Determinants of Riot Intensity.”

Allison Bernard, history and Chinese joint major: “Defining and Personalizing Culture: ‘Chinese-ness’ and ‘Western-ness’ in the Chinese Educational Mission.”

Elissa Bullion, sociology and anthropology major, recipient of the 2009 RCFIA International Research Travel Grant:

“What We Know of the Living, We Learned from the Dead: A Study of Correlations between Moche Mortuary Practices and Social Continuity and Change at San Jose de Morro.”

Hannah Burnett, independent scholar in medical anthropology and international public health: “Living the Discourse: Re-Imagining Empowerment through an Examination of Human Rights Discourse and Payment of Community Health Workers.”

Rachel Butera, international studies major: “Chinese Interethnic Marriage: Passion or Rational Choice?”

Benjamin Cotton, Spanish major: “La identidad japonesa en la literatura latinoamericana” (Japanese identity in Latin American literature).



Seniors (left to right) Colin Foss, Nemanja Tepavcevic, Allison Bernard, Elizabeth Bates, Perrin Romaine, and Avery White.

Seniors (left to right) Stephanie Astaphan, Edward “Ted” Silberman, David Becker, Rachel Butera, Amanda Granger, and Emily Gullickson.

Allison Dappen, Spanish major: “Hostel París: Una exploración creative de la chilenidad por los cuentos de un hostal valdiviano” (Hostal Paris: a fictional exploration of Chilenidad through the stories of the occupants of a Chilean hotel).

Elizabeth Edouard, international studies major: “Beyond Sun, Sand and Sea, Tourism and Economic Development: A Case Study of Mauritius.”

Molly Farber, international studies major: “Divergent Discourses in Egypt’s Twentieth-Century Feminist Movement.”

Colin Foss, French major: “Flaubert et le savoir encyclopédique: le roman et la science dans Bouvard et Péuchet” (Flaubert and the encyclopédie: narrative and science in Bouvard et Pécuchet).

Komal Garewal, international studies major: “The Marginalization of ‘At-Risk’ Populations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India: Examining Notions of Blame and the Intersections of Gender Roles, Poverty, and Education.”

Elliot Gay, Japanese studies major: “The Noble Experiment: How The Tale of Genji Influenced Harem Anime.”

Erin Gosselin, Japanese studies major: “The New Diet Sensation: ‘Herbivorous’ Men in Japan.”

Amanda Granger, international studies major: “Marketization, Mobility, and the Hukou System: The Drivers of Interprovincial Migration in China.”

Emily Gullickson, international studies major: “Gastronomic Hierarchies of Value: Monopolistic Competition and the Case of French AOC Wines.”

Elisabeth Hahn, history of art and architecture major: “Contextualizing the Palatine Chapel of Palermo: Architecture as Propaganda in Norman Sicily.”

Laria Hambleton, Japanese studies major: “Fear and Affection: Japanese Robotics in Popular Culture.”

Phil Houten, history and economics double major: “The 1952 Egyptian Land Reforms: The Emergence of a Socialist State.”

Hannah Hunter-Parker, history of art and architecture and German double major: “Something Happened in Murnau: Socio-Religious Influences on the Art of Wassily Kandinsky and Gabrielle Münter, 1908–1914.”

Alex Klikunas, Chinese major: “Han Han and Triple Door: Anatomy of a Contemporary Chinese Bestseller.”

Leslie Lim, political science and Japanese studies double major: “The Decay of Consent: Why Belligerents Withdraw Cooperation during UN Peacekeeping Operations.”



Seniors (left to right) Hannah Burnett, Hans Christoph Anders, Isabel McWilliams, Elisabeth Hahn, Komal Garewal, and Leslie Lim.

Seniors (left to right) Allison Dappen, Anne Willborn, Benjamin Cotton, Amanda Quinlan, and Hannah Hunter-Parker.

Isabel McWilliams, history of art and architecture major: “Appreciating Plum Blossoms: Ma Yuan’s Legacy in China and Japan.”

Mia Monnier, Japanese studies major: “Finding a Voice: Loss and Rediscovery of Cultural Identity in the Japanese American Novel.”

Vrutika Mody, political science major: “How to Win Friends and Influence People: Chinese Non-Coercive Power Strategies in South Asia and its Impact on Indian Foreign Policies.”

Forrest Orme, history major, recipient of the 2009 RCFIA International Research Travel Grant: “Wise as Serpents, but Not as Harmless as Doves: American Missionaries, Robert College, and the April Uprising.”

Marina Pravdic, international studies major: “Bosnian Fortune-Tellers: A Study of Two Generations of Women Seeking Self-Empowerment and Solidarity.”

Amanda Quinlan, international studies major: “Amerikanische exceptionalismus und die gesundheitskrise (American exceptionalism: comparing U.S. and German health care culture).”

Perrin Romine, French and biochemistry double major: “La communauté, la santé et la qualité de vie: La prise en charge des immigrés de l’Afrique occidentale attients du SIDA à Paris (Community, health, and quality of life: caring for west African immigrants with AIDS in Paris).”

Edward Silberman, international politics and economics major: “The Long Road to a Unified Economy: An Analysis of Growth Trend and Cycle Convergence in Post-Reunification Germany.”

Elizabeth Sutcliffe, sociology and anthropology major, recipient of the 2009 RCFIA International Research Travel Grant: “Growing an Astro-Turf Roots Organization in the HIV/AIDS Market.”

Nemanja Tepavcevic, international studies major: “Identifying the Malfunctioning Cogs in the EU Foreign Policy Machine.”

Anne Willborn, independent scholar with a structured major in Arabic: “His Own Personal Jesus: Tawfiq Sayigh’s Poetic Relationship with Christ.”

Avery White, political science major: “An Empire of Tolerance: Lessons from John Stuart Mill and the British Empire in India.”


International Thesis Awards

The Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics was originally established by the Geonomics Institute and is awarded for the best

senior thesis in international politics and economics.

2010 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics

David Becker, international politics and economics major: “An Analysis of the Determinants of Riot Intensity.”

The International Studies Award is given annually to the best senior honors thesis in international studies, broadly conceived. Candidates for the prize

may come from any major at the College, provided the thesis work is international in orientation. The thesis may be written in English or in a foreign language.

2010 International Studies Award

Daniel Langfitt, international studies major: “Perceptions of Political Legitimacy in the Franco-Russian Encounter of 1814.”

Professor Sergei Davydov, Daniel Langfitt, and Professor Paul Monod.

Professor Mark Williams and David Becker.


Student Internships

While studying abroad, Middlebury students often pursue internships in such diverse fields as diplomacy, international finance, law,

environmental policy, economic development, journalism, cinema, and fashion. These internships provide extraordinary opportunities for students to enhance their cultural and language learning. Middlebury students may also engage in internships over winter term or during the summer, before or after a study abroad program. The Digel Family Fund is a source of funding for international internships; students who have significant financial need and want to pursue community service internships outside their home country are selected for support through a competitive process. In addition, the Ronald H. Brown Class of 1962 Endowment, the Felton Family Fund, the Mahoney Family Internship Fund, the Middlebury Arts Council Internship Fund, the Youngman Asian Internship Fund, the Middlebury Nature Conservancy Internship Fund, and the Louis J. Kutzner ’51 Summer Internship Fund provide support for unpaid international and domestic internships for students, who are selected through a competitive process. These summer internships are noncredit, but students may receive a transcript notation for having completed a summer internship.

Sponsored by the Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust, the College offers credit-bearing internships for Middlebury students at the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad. In addition, noncredit internships are offered for Middlebury and non-Middlebury students in our programs abroad.

RCFIA Internships in Middlebury

Academic Year 2009-2010Caitlin Arnold ’11Tyler Brelje ’13Eric Harvey ’10Amalia Kane ’12Brian Fung ’10Vrutika Mody ’10Daniel Sheron ’10Martina Szabo ’12

Summer 2010Peter Coccoma ’12Daniel Crepps ’12Martina Szabo ’12

Senior Brian Fung celebrating his last day as intern for the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Professor Mark Williams is in the background.


Student Internships

Overseas Internships 2009-2010

Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCatherine Ahearn, ProyectarteAlec Barfield, Centro ConvivenLucinda Block, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos AiresMatthew Cherchio, AshokaDennis Clark, Centro para la Estabilidad FinancieraEllen Clarke, Hospital de ClínicasThomas Crocker, Asociación RespondeGabriela Curbelo Zeidman, Fundación AvanzarJessica Deas, Maternidad SardáAnjali Dhar, ABC LocuraMolly Drane, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos AiresLisa Dusenbery, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos AiresSamuel Dungan, Fundación Salvemos al FútbolAgnes Hever, Fundación Ambiente y Recursos NaturalesJessica Himmelstein, FUNINora Hirozawa, Hospital RivadaviaJohn Holler, Centro para la Estabilidad FinancieraAdam Jeevaratnam, Fundación LeerFrank Langan, Habitat for HumanityNaohito Miura, Asociación ConcienciaChelsea Muir, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos AiresLaura Murphy, Maternidad SardáMolly Peach, Jardin BotánicoGabriel Peña, Centro ConvivenJacquelyn Pomeroy, Asociación ConcienciaKaitlynn Saldanha, Centro ConvivenSophia Spring, Madres contra el PacoColin Taylor, Asociación RespondeEmily Van Gulik, Fundación SurSavina Velkova, Fundación ProaAshton Wesner, Fundación Ambiente y Recursos NaturalesNellie Wood, FUNI

Tucumán, ArgentinaCatherine Counts, Fundación LeónTalia Dibbell, Histology Research Project, UNT

Florianópolis, BrazilJorge Vilarrasa Esparza, Radio Comunitaria CampechePatrick Jobson, Radio Comunitaria CampecheChristina Wu, Memorial dos Direitos Humanos

Concepción, ChileNoah Mease, CONICYT, Explora ConcepciónTiernan Meyer, Consultorio Villa Nonguén

“Apocalypto”Fitz Roy, Parque Nacional de los Glaciares, Argentina

Allison Drappen ’10

“Shacked Up”Brighton Beach, South Coast of England

Heather Kay Merriman ’10


Student Internships

La Serena, ChileSeavron Banus, Departamento de Geografía, ULSSamantha Collins, Liceo Gabriela MistralLucas Eastman, BEDIM, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del NorteStephen Jewell, Departamento de Biología, ULSNora Lamm, CONICYT, Explora CoquimboJared Stensland, NOAO/CTIO, Observatorio Tololo

Santiago, ChileAlicia Gonzalez-Gross, Centro de Estudios de Derechos Humanos, Universidad CentralCristopher Hall, YMCADeLancey Smith, Techo Para ChileKathryn Williams, Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Chile

Temuco, ChileAlejandra Alvarez, Fundación Chol-Chol, Instituto de Estudios Indígenas de la UFRO

Valparaíso, ChileLara Andrade, Escuela UNESCOSalen Andrews, Escuela República del EcuadorCaitlin Arnold, Centro de Gestión y Fortalecimiento para el Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpio en ChileWinslow Brokaw, Escuela República del EcuadorHannah Brotherton, Taller Design for ValparaísoEvan Doyle, CONICYT, Explora ValparaísoNaomi Gibbs, SAGMolly Kelly-Yahner, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las ArtesDanielle Kruse, SAPU MirafloresCeline Lim, Techo Para Chile, Viña del MarDiego Menendez-Estrada, Techo Para Chile, Viña del MarMichaela O'Connor, Corporación Laguna VerdeLauren Redfield, SERNATURJonas Schoenefeld, CONICYT, Explora ValparaísoRachel Schrier, SAPU MirafloresNavpreet Sidhu, SAPU MirafloresGrace Smith-Vidaurre, CONAF, Viña del MarJameson Studwell, Consultorio PlacillaJay Voit, SAPU MirafloresMatthew Vukich, Escuela UNESCONicole White, Centro de Energías Renovables

Valdivia, ChileEmma Novins, CENAI Facultad de Medicina UAChAmy Schumer, CENAI Facultad de Medicina UACh

“Celestial Blue”Atacama Desert, Chile

Mai Ann Healy ’10

“Horcon”Horcon, ChileEllie Moore ’10


Student Internships

Philippe Halbert, Musée du LouvreWilliam Higgins, Insiders CorpsAmanda Holland, EPITECHGregory Iacurci, Lycée Paul ValeryNatalya Kitchin, EPITECHEnyi Koene, EPITECHFrancesca Lambert, France Amérique LatineKimberly Larkin, Montparnasse RencontreDiane Lopez, Fairchild PublicationsYahaira Lorenzo, EPITECH Bente Madson, Julien Boidot ArchitecteMegan Margel, Institut National du Sport et de l'Education PhysiqueSara Miller, Fairchild Publications Shenique Moxey, EPITECHMeg Neville, EPITECH Meg Neville, Lycée Paul ValeryElizabeth Overbey, Fairchild PublicationsAmie Pendleton-Knoll, Espace BénévolatLauren Peppers, EPITECH Abigail Polgardy, College Jules Romain Daniel Pulido, Société VisanDaniel Pulido, Lycée Paul ValeryKatherine Reid, French Heritage Society Miranda Sachs, Espace BénévolatHanna St. Marie, English & CreativityBre'anca Sanders, Nelson Wilmotte ArchitectesAlexandra Simonetti, Institut supérieur du management Public et PolitiqueKristine Unkrich, Ligue du Droit International des FemmesSonya Ursell, EPITECHSonya Ursell, French Heritage Society Ruby Ward, Fairchild Publications Nathan Wilairat, Lycée Paul ValeryAnna Zauner, Fairchild Publications

Mainz, GermanyChristopher Hench, Gutenberg Museum

Ferrara, ItalyColin Gibson, IBO ItaliaDavid Himelman, Maria Livia Brunelli Home GalleryChristine Tartaglia, VistaGladys Valverde, IBO ItaliaBenjamin Weir, Istituto di Storia Contemporanea

Beijing, ChinaBrendan Hirschmann, China Pharmaceutical Technology Transfer CenterCharleen Fei, U.S. Department of Commerce

Hangzhou, ChinaHui Soh, Morning ExpressCharles Kraus, New Ecology

Alexandria, EgyptChris Opila, Alexandria University Faculty of Arts

Paris, FranceSarah Abelow, Lycée Paul ValeryLaura Balsollier, Fairchild PublicationsLaura Balsollier, Institut supérieur du management Public et PolitiqueJonathan Bowley, EPITECHHayden Budds, Fairchild PublicationsHayden Budds, EPITECH Katherine Burdine, Air ProductsDonna Canada-Smith, French Heritage Society Ashley Cheung, Fairchild PublicationsLuke Cunnigham, Montparnasse RencontreCameron Ferrey, Dewey-LeboeufAbigail Friedman, Fairchild PublicationsCindy Garcia, French Heritage Society Cindy Garcia, English & CreativityJessica Greif, CAMP ExpertAlyssa Ha, Montparnasse Rencontre

“Father and Son”Zhongdian, China

Claire Luby ’10


Student Internships

Florence, ItalyElizabeth Allegrezza, Fratelli Alinari Nicole Bianco, TrimsailingVincenza Di Maggio, Ufficio Centro Storico, UNESCOAnna Love, Comune di Firenze, Ufficio Centro Storico, UNESCOJulie Avery-Shapiro, Comune di Firenze, Ufficio Centro Storico, UNESCO

Rome, ItalyJessie Reniere, Comune di Roma, Ufficio del Turismo e UNESCO

Guadalajara, MexicoJohn Allen, Coordinación de Producción AudiovisualGenevieve Busby, CODENILaura Wett, CODENI

Irkutsk, Russia Casey Mahoney, Waldorf SchoolCasey Mahoney, Irkutsk Writers UnionRomany Redman, Russian Red CrossRomany Redman, Irkutsk State Medical University Hospital Moscow, Russia Katherine Burdine, TechTrans InternationalSophie Clark, American ClinicJenny Djupedal, Cargill InternationalMegan Kelly, Mikhailkov & PartnersAlena Svobodova, Carnegie Center

Yaroslavl, RussiaNickolas Bujalski, Yaroslavl Art MuseumAnne Burke, Yaroslavl City AdministrationNicola Rentschler, Yaroslavl Kremlin Museum

“Bedo”Ferrara, Italy

Whitney Bean ’10


Student Internships

Madrid, SpainGina Egan, Instituto de Educación Secundaria Villa de VallecasGillian Frew, Editorial EverestJennifer Hare, Fundación Colegios del Mundo UnidoJohn Holler, Programa Bitácora, FETE, UGTMichelle Kirkman, Instituto de Cuestiones Internacionales y Política ExteriorMónica Lee, Servicio de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Carlos II de MadridAmanda Limas, Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción Maddie Long, Dirección General de Asuntos Europeos, Comunidad de MadridJoseph Molefi, Elipse IniciativasLauren Sánchez, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio AmbienteKatrina Spencer, BiblioketaJulie Tschirhart, Centro de Acogida de Refugiados de VallecasSydney Ward, Canterbury EnglishVictor Zhu, Consejo de Seguridad NuclearJing Zhuang, American ExpressNicole Kurker-Stewart, Asociación de Programas Universitarios Norteamericanos en España

Montevideo, UruguayShelley Carlberg, El AbrojoCaitlin Hannahan, U.S. ConsulateMegan Mishler, Colegio San Juan BautistaMelissa Segil, REDESAlexander Streim, El Abrojo

Córdoba, SpainAndrew Fuller, World Fair Trade OrganizationRafael Vélez, Colegio Público Santuario

Getafe, SpainGabriella Brandt, Comisión para la Investigación Malos Tratos a MujeresAnna Briggs, Promotora General de Revistas, SADaniel Crane, Federación de Alcohólicos Anónimos de MadridEdward Farrell, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. EmbassyDaniella Figueroa-Downing, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Programa de Salud Internacional, Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIGenevieve Guyol, Centro DatoBrandon Hawkins, Colegio Público Martina GarcíaStephanie Henderson, Colegio Público Agustín Rodríguez SahagúnCaitlin Kellough, Elipse IniciativasJeffrey Leitch, Mundo CooperanteTianze Ma, BBVA, Área de ExpansiónMary Makela, Colegio Público Agustín Rodríguez SahúnRobert Nicol, RedKaraokeRanaivo Rajaonson, Fundación DARAAnn Selvadurai, La Koma JovenElan Silver, UNICEFBenjamin Silton, Fundación ConcordiaLance Sun, Colegio Público Príncipe de AsturiasSarah Thompson, Colegio Público Martina GarcíaRachel Wold, Fundación Mujeres

“The Gatekeeper”Chateau de Montfort

Lindsey Sick ’10


Student Internships

RussiaNana Tsikhelashvili, Associate Professor and DirectorLeonid Andrulaitis, Assistant to the DirectorElizabeth Kruger, Resident Coordinator, IrkutskAdrien Smith, Resident Coordinator, MoscowMegan Corrigan, Resident Coordinator, YaroslavlAnna Melnikova, Resident Coordinator, Yaroslavl

SpainKim Griffin, Associate Professor and DirectorLena Santillana, Assistant to the DirectorLaura Hernández, Housing General AdministrationTeresa Córdova Dexter, Coordinator for Student and Faculty Cooperative DevelopmentCarlos Jurado Martín, Coordinator for Student Affairs and Integration

International Programs and Off-Campus Study, MiddleburyJeffrey Cason, Dean of International ProgramsLiz Ross, Associate DirectorStacey Woody Thebodo, Assistant Director (non-Middlebury programs)Meghan Mason, Coordinator (Middlebury Schools Abroad: France, Germany, Italy)Nicole Chance, Coordinator (Middlebury Schools Abroad: Latin America, Spain)William Mayers, Coordinator (Middlebury Schools Abroad: China, Egypt, Russia)Terry Crouch, University Relations Coordinator

“The Paddler”Manacapuru River, Amazonas, Brasil

Alison DeGraff ’10

The College’s extensive overseas network makes international internships possible. The following individuals have been instrumental in organizing and

overseeing the 2009–2010 internship program.

ChinaBeijingHuicong Zhang, Associate Professor and DirectorLyubaTovbina, Resident Director

HangzhouTao Hong, Academic DirectorAmy Saurer, Resident DirectorLu Bin, Program Consultant

KunmingJiajia Wang, Associate Professor and DirectorLisa Levine, Resident Director

EgyptNehad Heliel, Associate Professor and DirectorPaul Wulfsberg, Assistant DirectorLizz Huntley, Resident Coordinator

FranceDavid Paoli, Associate Professor and DirectorDanielle Lacarriere, Student Life CoordinatorAmy Tondu, Assistant DirectorViviana Lopez, Site and External Relations CoordinatorPatricia Lemeunier, Administrative Assistant

GermanyHeike Fahrenberg, Associate Professor and Director

ItalyRosa Cuda, Associate Professor and DirectorPatrizia Nesti, Assistant to the DirectorLaura Sieni, Student Services Coordinator

Latin AmericaArgentina; Brazil; UruguayClaudio González Chiaramonte, Associate Professor and DirectorJuan Hurtado, Internship AssistantMaria Marta Gabriela Lamoretti, Assistant to the DirectorLilian Fleuri, Resident Coordinator, BrazilSylvia Murninkas, Resident Coordinator, Uruguay

Chile; MexicoJeffrey Stevenson, Associate Professor and DirectorJuan Pastene, Internship CoordinatorPaula Jerez, Program Coordinator Aki Stevenson, Project Coordinator Della Burke, Resident Coordinator, Mexico


Working Paper Series

The RCFIA Working Paper Series publishes analytical papers on international matters, broadly defined. By publishing the works of scholars and

practitioners from a range of institutions, the series aims to invigorate research and intellectual life at the College and beyond. All prospective papers are reviewed, double-blind, by an outside reader. Each publication in the series is available electronically through the Web site listed below, or as a bound volume upon request from RCFIA. Allison Stanger is the executive editor of the series; Mark Williams is the editor. For further information on the RCFIA Working Paper Series and procedures for submission of potential papers, see www.middlebury.edu/international/rcfia/papers.

RCFIA Working Papers

Heikki Oksanen (Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission), “Setting Medium-Term Objectives for Government Budgets under the EU Stability and Growth Pact and Ageing Populations” (2009).

Andrew J. Bacevich (Boston University), “After Iraq: Whither U.S. Strategy?” (2008).

K. Cheasty Miller (University of Texas at Austin), “In the Name of the People? A Closer Look at Politicized Documentary Filmmaking: The Case of El Salvador” (2007). John A. Maluccio (Middlebury College), “Coping with the Coffee Crisis in Central America: The Role of the Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social” (2007).

João Resende-Santos (Bentley College), “Brazil’s China Card: Trends and Prospects in Brazil-China Relations” (2007).

William Odom (Yale University and the Hudson Institute), “American Hegemony: How to Use It, How to Lose It” (2006).

William Pyle (Middlebury College), “Collective Action and Post-Communist Enterprise: The Economic Logic of Russia’s Business Associations” (2006).

Kenneth D. Wald and Bryan D. Williams (University of Florida), “The Diaspora Consciousness of Arab Americans: The Intersection of Social Identity and Global Politics” (2005).

Richard Goldstone (Harvard Law School), “The Development of International Criminal Justice” (2005).

Deborah Gerish (Emporia State University), “Men, Women, and Beasts at Clermont, 1095” (2005).

Thomas Oatley (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “A Political Logic of Foreign Debt Accumulation” (2005).

Taylor Fravel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “China’s New Diplomacy and the Future of U.S.-China Relations” (2005).

Michael Ignatieff (Harvard University), “The Lesser Evils.” (2005).

Charles MacCormack (Save the Children), “The Politics of Humanitarian Relief after 9/11” (2004).

David Stoll (Middlebury College), “Moral Authority, Permission, and Deference in Latin American Studies” (2004).

Andrew Heyward (CBS News), “Why Television News Is the Way It Is, and Is Not the Way You’d Like It to Be (And Why You Should Care)” (2004).

Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College), “The Man Who Sold the Collective’s Land: Understanding New Economic Regimes in Guangdong” (2004).

Jonathan Isham (Middlebury College), Michael Woolcock (World Bank and Harvard University), Lant Pritchett (Harvard University), and Gwen Busby (Cornell University), “The Varieties of Resource Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth” (2004).


Working Paper Series

James E. Lindsay (Colorado State University), “Ibn’Asakir (1105-1176): Muslim Historian and Advocate of Jihad against Christian Crusaders and Shi’ite Muslims” (2003).

Yvonne Galligan (Queens University, Belfast), “Women in Politics in Ireland, North and South” (2003).

Ethan Scheiner (Stanford University), “The Underlying Roots of Opposition Failure in Japan” (2003).

Neil DeVotta (Michigan State University), “Uncivil Groups, Unsocial Capital: Whither Civil Society and Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka?” (2003).

Erik Bleich (Middlebury College), “The Legacies of History? From Colonization to Integration in Britain and France” (2002).

Felix G. Rohatyn (Rohatyn Associates), “Freedom, Fairness, and Wealth” (2002).

Jean-Philippe Mathy (University of Illinois), “The System of Francophobia” (2002).

Russell J. Leng and Adil Husain ’02 (Middlebury College), “South Asian War Games” (2002).

Carolyn Durham (The College of Wooster), “The Franco-American Novel of Literary Globalism: The Case of Diane Johnson” (2002).

Jeffrey Carpenter (Middlebury College) and Juan Camilo Cardenas (Javeriana University, Colombia), “Using Cross-Cultural Experiments to Understand the Dynamics of a Global Commons” (2002).

Stanley Hoffmann (Harvard University), “The European Union and the New American Foreign Policy” (2001).

“A New Perspective on Cuzco”Cuzco, Peru

Kate MacFarlane ’11


Selected Faculty and Staff Books2009-2010Beyer, Thomas. Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way. Revised second edition. Barron’s. 33 Keys to Unlocking The Lost Symbol: A Reader’s Companion to the Dan Brown Novel. Newmarket Press.

Billings, Timothy and Matteo Ricci. On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince. Columbia University Press. (Translator)

Bleich, Erik. Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West. Routledge. (Editor)

Burch, Susan. Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Facts on File. (Editor)

Carmola, Kateri. Private Military Contractors in New Wars: Risk, Law, and Ethics. Routledge.

Chapin, Alex. PodClass Italian All-in-One Study Guide. McGraw-Hill. PodClass Spanish All-in-One Study Guide. McGraw-Hill. PodClass French All-in-One Study Guide. McGraw-Hill. iSpeak Europe Phrasebook. McGraw-Hill.

Chaplin, Jane D. and Christina S. Kraus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Livy. Oxford University Press.

Davis, Darién. White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil. Michigan State University Press.

Gamero de Coca. La mirada monstruosa de la memoria. Ediciones Libertarias.

Hanta, Karin. USA. Flechsig Publishing House. New York. Flechsig Publishing House.

Katz, Michael. A translation of Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children. Norton Critical Edition. Second edition. W.W. Norton & Co. (Editor)

Monod, Paul. Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837. Wiley-Blackwell.

Monod, Paul. Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi. Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad. Palgrave. (Editors)

Stanger, Allison. One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy. Yale University Press.

Van Order, Thomas. Listening to Fellini: Music and Meaning in Black and White. Fairleigh Dickinson UP.

Wyatt, Donald. The Blacks of Premodern China. University of Pennsylvania Press.

“Glacier Grey”Torres del Paine Park

Evan Daniel ’10

Brian Fung ’10, Foreign Policy editorial researcher, is on his way to the London School of Economics for a master’s in international relations.

I came to Middlebury for the first time in 2006, almost completely by accident. As I was weighing acceptance offers from a handful of other colleges that spring, I thought my shortlist was all but set in stone. Middlebury wasn’t on it. Instead, I’d filled out the matriculation form for a certain institution in Poughkeepsie, New York, and I was halfway to the mailbox when my mother convinced me to give the place a visit rather than committing sight unseen. So began a week-long tour of the Northeast, one that had me armed to the teeth with all the appropriate and cus-tomary guidebooks, maps, and brochures.

Turns out, I didn’t need the literature. An hour at each campus was enough to upend my entire list—and to my dismay, none of the schools I saw struck me as particularly attractive in the end. Not that there was anything wrong, exactly; there just wasn’t anything especially right about them. Amid doubts that I’d somehow made a terrible mess of my college career before it had even begun, I grudgingly let my mom talk me into giving Middlebury a chance. After all, for a D.C.-area native who’d already driven some 600 miles in a few days, another 200 seemed like pocket change.

Anyone who’s spent a spring term at the College knows that in late March, light drizzle, temperatures in the mid-forties, and a gray haze wrapped perpetually around Mead Chapel are par for the course. For my mother, these conditions were intolerable. I got an odd look when I told her I kind of liked it here.

As with many of my peers, the initial months of my Middlebury experience were marked by some radical changes. Though I was an avid runner in high school and a seasonal thespian, I soon gave up cross-country and theater in college. That I ultimately aban-doned the very activities that defined much of my college search will always be one of my favorite ironies. I say “favorite,” because without letting go of my old interests, I wouldn’t have had room for the ones I find so important today.

I leave Middlebury with a deep curiosity about journalism, global politics, and technology. My three principal interests form a kind of self-reinforcing triumvirate. As a staff writer for the Middlebury Campus, I sought out “real” journalism wherever I could find it in hopes of teaching myself what many students were learning at formal J-schools across the country. Reporting about the Iraq War had at that point reached its apex, and reading about politics inevitably got me thinking about it, too. I declared a major in po-litical science and developed a small obsession with military issues, security, strategy, and counter-terrorism.

My political interests also led me to the Rohatyn Center, where, over four years, I collaborated with professors on their research. From studying maritime piracy to NATO to American outsourc-ing, my assignments proved as varied and numerous as the individ-uals I worked with. But making it all happen called for consuming a ton of information, and doing so on top of—and sometimes in lieu of—academic work, required new and inventive ways to orga-nize what lay before me.

So I dove into new media, exploring emergent technologies like blogs, RSS, and Twitter. And because these same platforms represented the forefront of innovation when it came to journal-ism, knowing how they worked gave me a tremendous advantage upon taking the reins as editor in chief of the Middlebury Campus. For some time, we had been struggling with an outdated, static Web site. One of my chief goals from the start, therefore, was to revolutionize the publication’s relationship with the Internet. To that end, we demolished our old site and built a more agile and flexible one from the ground up. For the first time, the Middlebury Campus began to offer video and audio journalism. And in recruit-ment meetings and other outreach, we sowed the seeds for student interest in digital reporting.

This is just the beginning—the foundation for what I hope will be an ongoing project for years to come. But what I helped create at Middlebury is nothing compared to what Middlebury has given me: an array of productive relationships, challenging opportuni-ties, and reasons to face the future head-on. Thanks to these gifts, I’m spending this summer as a second-year editorial researcher for Foreign Policy magazine, where blogging and Web-based journal-ism feature centrally. In September, I’ll trade one city for another, heading to the London School of Economics for a one-year mas-ter’s program in international relations.

Though I often wonder what path I’d be on now had I missed my fortuitous encounter with Middlebury, I’m convinced that com-mitting to the College was one of the best accidents of my life.

—Brian Fung ’10

The Best Accident

Documents

Middlebury College Annual Report 2009-2010