U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant IS/ES Scholar-in-Residence 2000-2001 From mid-March to late May 2001, Middlebury College hosted the residency of Vladimir Protasov, a biologist with the Taimyr Forestry Department in Arctic Siberia. While on campus, Vladimir Protasov shared his wealth of experience with faculty and students in a variety of disciplines, including environmental studies, international studies, Russian, and classics. Since 1998, he has been collaborating with Middlebury College Professor of Classics Eve Adler on a comparative culturological research project focusing on the understanding of “politics” and “science” in Russian and American cultural contexts. Vladimir Protasov also brought to Middlebury a rare view of North Siberian wildlife, forestry, native peoples, and resources, and had the valuable opportunity to work with American colleagues on challenging forest management/ restoration issues in the Taimyr Region of Russia.
language-training grant to support his travel to a Frenchspeaking country/region subsequent to participation in the Middlebury College French Language School in summer 2002.
IS/ES Professional Development Awards 2000-2001 The IS/ES program offers two types of professional development opportunities for Middlebury College faculty interested in International Studies and Environmental Studies. These include training to develop and/or enhance foreign language competence, and support for participation in cross-disciplinary professional activities. During 20002001, five faculty members were awarded grants to pursue IS/ES professional development activities. •
Assistant Professor of Geography Daniel P. Bedford was awarded an IS/ES grant to attend conference sessions on “Energy, Resources, and Environment” at the XXVI General Assembly of the European Geophysics Society, March 2001, in Nice, France.
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Dana Faculty Fellow in Anthropology and Art A. David Napier received an IS/ES
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Professor of History of Art and Architecture Kirsten Hoving was awarded an IS/ ES grant to attend a conference on “The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena” and deliver a paper on “Jackson Pollock’s Galaxy: Outer Space and Artist’s Space in Abstract Expressionism” in January 2001 at the Palermo Observatory in Palermo, Italy. Professor of Political Science David Rosenberg received an IS/ES grant to investigate the impact of industrialization on the environment and security of the South China Sea region. In January 2001, he participated in a conference of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium in Hong Kong, and attended the
annual meeting of the editors of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library at the Internet Publications Bureau of the Australian National University. •
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Theodore Sasson was awarded an IS/ES languagetraining grant to support his travel to an Arabic-speaking country/region subsequent to participation in the Middlebury College Arabic Language School in summer 2002.
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Assistant Professor of Russian Tatiana Smorodinskaya was awarded an IS/ES languagetraining grant to support her travel to a German-speaking country/region subsequent to participation in the Middlebury College German Language School in summer 2001.
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