Academics
Gender Studies Faculty
Since Gender Studies is a multidisciplinary program, we have professors from several concentrations and interests that teach our courses.
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Carey Kaplan
Chair of Gender Studies program
Professor of English
B.A. Barnard College; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
Dr. Kaplan has published books on Doris Lessing and on canon formation (The Canon and the Common Reader). She is interested in collaborative composition, critical theory, feminist theory, queer studies and women’s writing. She is the driving force behind the establishment of the Gender Studies program and co-teaches a course in this program every spring. She also teaches Critical Theory, British Modernism, 18th Century Literature and Women’s Literature.
Saint Edmund's Hall 342
Phone: 802.654.2359
Box: 126
E-mail: ckaplan@smcvt.edu
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Sharon Lamb
Professor of Psychology
B.A. Lawrence University; Ed.M., Ed.D. Harvard University
Dr. Lamb's undergraduate background is in English and music (vocal performance). At Harvard she specialized in counseling and consulting psychology and human development in the Graduate School of Education. Her research interests are girls’ development, blame and responsibility, and sexual abuse and victimization. Her courses include Gender issues in Psychology, Theories of Personality, Emotions and Emotional Development and the department’s internship practicum
Saint Edmund’s Hall 212
Phone: 802.654.2638
Box 244
E-mail: slamb@smcvt.edu
Personal Web page: http1://academics.smcvt.edu/slamb/
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Kathleen M. Balutansky
Professor of English
B.A. Goshen College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Notre Dame
Dr. Balutansky specializes in Caribbean and post-colonial literature and theory, with a special focus on women writers. She is the author of The Novels of Alex La Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict (1990). Her publications on the Caribbean include translations, interviews and scholarly articles on Caribbean writers and a co-edited anthology of essays by Caribbean writers, Representing Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language and Literature (1998). She is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Saint Michael's and is the president of the Haitian studies association.
Klein Hall
Phone: 802.654.2640
Box 242
E-mail: kbalutansky@smcvt.edu
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George Dameron
Professor of History
Coordinator of Humanities Program
B.A. Duke University; M.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University
Teaching both in the Department of History and Humanities Program, Dr. Dameron's introductory and upper-level courses focus on the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period and Antiquity. He offers courses on Medieval Italy, the Black Death, gender and women’s history and historiography.
Dr. Dameron has written two books on medieval Florence: Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320 (Harvard, 1991) and Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante (Pennsylvania, 2005). Currently, he is writing his third book, The Making of Medieval Florence. Once that project is complete, he intends to write a book on the political economy of grain in north Italian communes in the thirteenth century.
Few people may know that Dr. Dameron was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin (West Africa), 1975-1977. His interests today focus on tennis, taking care of a 150-year old house, hiking the woods of Vermont, classical guitar and participating in the governance of his town. He is currently the secretary of the Hinesburg Community Land Trust and a former board member of Friends in Adoption, Inc., in Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Durick Library 306
Phone: 802.654.2318
Box 141
E-mail: gdameron@smcvt.edu
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Susan Kuntz
Professor of Psychology
B.A. Albion College; M.A. University of Vermont; Ph.D. Syracuse University
Dr. Kuntz's undergraduate degree is in Modern Languages-Spanish, and her master’s in education research. Her doctoral concentration was teaching and curriculum and educational psychology. Her courses include Adolescent and Adult Development, Educational Psychology, Peace and Justice, Gender Studies and Adolescent Psychopathology.
Saint Edmund’s Hall 210
Phone: 802.654.2269
Box 244
E-mail: skuntz@smcvt.edu
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Dave Landers
Visiting Professor of Psychology
B.A. Alma College; M.A. Michigan State University; Ph.D. Wayne State University
Phone: 802.654.2310
Box 157
E-mail: dlanders@smcvt.edu
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Lorrie Smith
Professor of English
B.A. University of Massachusetts-Boston; M.A., Ph.D. Brown University
Dr. Smith specializes in American poetry and African American Literature. She teaches courses on a variety of topics in these fields, including seminars in Whitman and Dickinson, Faulkner and Morrison, literature of the Middle Passage, and race and culture. She recently completed an article for a collection published by Rutgers University Press on connections between the Black Arts Movement and current spoken word poetry, and she is writing a book entitled Reports from Vernacular Valleys: Post-Sixties Black Poetry and the Public Sphere. She is also a faculty member in the American Studies program.
Saint Edmund's Hall 337
Phone: 802.654.2392
Box 167
E-mail: lsmith@smcvt.edu
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Peter Harrigan
Associate Professor of Fine Arts: Theatre
B.A. Saint Michael’s College; M.F.A. University of Pittsburgh
McCarthy Arts Center 131
Phone: 802.654.2268
Box 184
E-mail: pharrigan@smcvt.edu
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Nathaniel Lewis
Associate Professor of English
B.A. Yale University; M.A. University of North Carolina; Ph.D. Harvard University
Dr. Lewis has just completed a book on Western American literature and is currently at work on a study of the Maine woods. A co-director of the American Studies program, he teaches courses on nature writing, postmodern theory, multiethnic literature and aesthetics.
Saint Edmund's Hall 335
Phone: 802.654.2308
Box 245
E-mail: nlewis@smcvt.edu
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Linda Hollingdale
Associate Director of the Student Resource Center
Klein Hall 120
Phone: 802.654.2547
Box 264
E-mail: lhollingdale@smcvt.edu
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Adrie Kusserow
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
B.A. Amherst College; M.A. Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D. Harvard University
Saint Edmund's Hall 237
Phone: 802.654.2267
Box 358
E-mail: akusserow@smcvt.edu
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Kristin Novotny
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Novotny concentrates her research on the history of political thought, citizenship and political protest, gender and women’s studies.
Saint Edmund's Hall 351
Phone: 802.654.2290
Box 276
knovotny@smcvt.edu
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Susan Ouellette
Associate Professor of History
B.A. SUNY Plattsburgh; M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Durick Library 309
Phone: 802.654.2249
Box 136
E-mail: souellette@smcvt.edu
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Kerry Shea
Associate Professor of English
B.A., M.A. Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D. Cornell University
Dr. Shea has published on women and film as well as Middle High German and Old Norse literature and is working on a book, Engendering Romance: Women and European Medieval Romance. She teaches courses in film, early British Literature, mystery fiction, utopian fiction and women’s literature.
Saint Edmund's Hall 339
Phone: 802.654.2287
Box 392
E-mail: kshea@smcvt.edu
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Amy Werbel
Associate Professor of Fine Arts: Art
B.A. Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; Ph.D. Yale University
Sloane Art Center 214A
Phone: 802.654.2271
Box 391
E-mail: awerbel@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/awerbel/
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Patricia L. Delaney
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
B.A. Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Delaney earned her bachelor’s degree in foreign service/Latin American studies from Georgetown University in 1990. She earned her master’s in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991 and her doctorate in 1994.
Saint Edmund's Hall 246
Phone: 802.654.2961
Box 386
E-mail: pdelaney@smcvt.edu
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Paul Olsen
Instructor of Business Administration and Accounting
Acting Associate Director, Master of Science in Administration Program
B.A. University of Vermont; M.S.A. Saint Michael's College; Ed.D. University of Vermont
Dr. Olsen joined the graduate program in administration in 1994 and is currently the acting associate director. He teaches Foundations of Business Administration, Human Resource Management, and Managerial Leadership in the undergraduate program, and Human Resource Management, Total Compensation and Thesis Seminar in the graduate program. Dr. Olsen was previously employed as Employee Benefits Manager and Assistant Director of Human Resources at the College.
Jeanmarie Hall 169C
Phone: 802.654.2661
Box 38
E-mail: polsen@smcvt.edu