Academics
Faculty
Adrie Kusserow - Department Chair
Professor of Anthropology
B.A. Amherst College (Phi Beta Kappa); M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D. Harvard University
Vermont's 2002 CASE Carnegie Professor of the Year
View Dr. Kusserow's Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught: Social Inequalities; Culture, Illness and Healing; Refugees; Introduction to Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Sudanese refugees, anthropology of the child; spread of Western Buddhism; Bhutan and Gross National Happiness; poverty; child soldiers; ethnographic poetry and fiction; New Sudan Education Initiative
Recent Scholarly Achievements: In November 2008, Dr. Kusserow gave a paper on Western Education, Buddhism and Television at the 4th International Conference on Gross National Happiness in Paro, Bhutan. In May 2007, Dr. Kusserow and Robert Lair, a religious studies instructor at Saint Michael's, were awarded a $200,000 research grant from the World Bank's Development Marketplace. The grant funded their work in establishing The New Sudan School of Health Sciences in Sudan, Africa.
On Teaching and Research: Dr. Kusserow says that her research interests guide what she teaches since she likes to teach what is fresh and interesting for her at the moment. Teaching makes her digest the concepts she is exploring even further, and Dr. Kusserow finds that research and teaching work together in a nice dialectic. She also uses her own ethnographic poetry in her classes to deepen student understanding of certain anthropological concepts.
Outside Saint Michael's: Dr. Kusserow enjoys working with refugees, teaching and writing/reading ethnographic poetry.
Learn more about Dr. Kusserow in her faculty spotlight.
Campus Office
Saint Edmund's Hall 237
Phone: 802.654.2267
Box 358
E-mail: akusserow@smcvt.edu
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Vince Bolduc
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
A.B. University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Vermont 2007 Community Based Research Professor of the Year
(Given by Campus Compact)
View Dr. Bolduc's Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught: Work, Education and Vocation; Peace and Justice; Introduction to Sociology; Research Methods; Poverty; Population Analysis
Areas of Expertise: Population studies, peace and justice issues, methods of survey research, poverty, quality of life issues, student religiousness
Recent Scholarly Achievements: Dr. Bolduc is currently working on two research projects. One is a state-wide survey of Vermonter's attitudes towards population, the environment, and quality of life. The second was completed in January of 2009 with his colleague in economics, Professor Herb Kessel. It is a 160-page book focusing on changes and trends in Vermont over the past several decades, entitled Vermont in Transition: A Summary of Social, Economic and Environmental Trends. With the Appendix, the book contains about 320 charts, graphs and tables. In 2007, Dr. Bolduc was recognized as the Vermont Service-Learning Teacher of the Year by Vermont Campus Compact.
On Teaching and Research: Dr. Bolduc has done over 35 research projects - usually surveys - with students in his classes. He says the new information they learn shapes what he teaches in each of his other classes. Dr. Bolduc has great respect for what research has to teach, and he hopes he can convince his students that the world is knowable and makes more sense if it is studied systematically.
Outside Saint Michael's: Dr. Bolduc enjoys growing and grooming his gardens, his orchard, and his woodlot.
Learn more about Dr. Bolduc in his faculty spotlight.
Campus Office
Saint Edmund's Hall 239
Phone: 802.654.2389
Box 290
E-mail: vbolduc@smcvt.edu
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Patricia L. Delaney
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
B.S. Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Vermont 2008 Service Learning Professor of the Year
(Given by Campus Compact)
View Dr. Delaney's Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught: Introductory Anthropology; Anthropological Perspectives on Gender; People and Cultures of the Lusuphone World; Life Histories; Gender and International Development; Participatory Action Research
Areas of Expertise: Gender and international development; war, conflict, and the contestation of cultural identity; relief to development continuum; poverty and stratification in the global south; grassroots development and participatory approaches; East Timor; Lusophone Africa
Recent Scholarly Achievements: Dr. Delaney received a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and research at the National University of East Timor (2006). She was also a research consultant for the Social Action Fund of Angola, for which she designed a participatory monitoring and evaluation system. Her consultancy work included applied anthropology research in Angola for two weeks; design and implementation of a training workshop with Angolan staff and local community partners; and completion of a final report for The World Bank (August 2006).
On Teaching and Research: As an applied anthropologist, Dr. Delaney always brings examples of her recent research into her classes. Recently, she has been able to talk about her applied work around gender-based violence in Darfur and a small project on gender and agriculture in El Salvador. The results of her research (and the accompanying slides) make for interesting case studies in class. Whenever she is in the field, she is always thinking about the ways in which her experiences can later be used in the classroom.
Outside Saint Michael's: Dr. Delaney enjoys biking (including a 20-mile-plus commute to campus in the fall semester), cross-country skiing, and eating her husband's pastries (he's a chef).
Learn more about Dr. Delaney in her faculty spotlight.
Campus Office
Saint Edmund's Hall 246
Phone: 802.654.2961
Box 386
E-mail: pdelaney@smcvt.edu
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William Garrett
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology
B.A. William Jewell College; M.Div. Yale University; Ph.D. Drew University
Dr. Garrett earned his B.A. in philosophy from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, 1962. He then went on to attain his master’s of divinity at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut, 1965. Just three years later, Dr. Garrett went on to Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where he earned his Ph.D. in sociology of religion.