Motoko Tabuse, Director, School of Japanese. Outside the classroom, you’ll participate in organized cocurricular activities to help you build new vocabulary.

Russell Leng taught full-time at Middlebury for 40 years, before retiring in 2007. He continues to teach an advanced seminar each spring term at Middlebury, and during the January term at the Monterey ...

David Allen, Associate Professor of BiologyPlant Community Ecology This course will explore the structure and dynamics of plant communities, with a particular emphasis on temperate forest communities.

News Stories Alum’s Chai Start-Up Has Personal Roots and a Sustainable Vision August 7, 2025 | by Mark C. Anderson Ani Joshi leverages skills she built at the Middlebury Institute to create the only ...

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 ...

This is the core course of the International and Global Studies major. It is an introduction to key international issues and problems that will likely feature prominently in their courses at ...

Matthew Dickinson, Professor of Political ScienceThe American Presidency This course examines the development and modern practice of presidential leadership. Focus is on presidential decision-making, ...

Kirsten K. Coe is a plant ecophysiologist, focusing on how environmental stress shapes plant performance and growth, and in turn how plant responses influence ecosystem level processes. She uses ...

Laurie Essig is Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Middlebury College. She is a sociologist who teaches courses on how power shapes our bodies and our desires Her courses include ...

American Autobiography: The Promise of America The promise of America, to paraphrase Tocqueville, may be said to involve securing equality in freedom and overcoming slavery and its legacy. Jay Parini ...

David Wick has worked in international education since 1988. His experience includes leading study abroad efforts at a youth exchange organization, Arkansas State University, San Francisco State ...

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