Winter 2020

All Eyes on Russia and the U.S.

bgudbergsdottir@middlebury.edu — 2020-01-28T15:47:51-0800

Six Middlebury Institute faculty experts share what most concerns them about the state of U.S. - Russia relations in the world today.

Vision Quest

Matthew Jennings — 2020-01-28T15:26:04-0800

What one sees in the world may very well depend on how one looks for - or at - something.

Who are We?

Eva Gudbergsdottir — 2020-01-28T14:44:31-0800

Professor Tsuneo Akaha, an immigration scholar, explores the issue anew - by expanding his geographical focus.

Currents

Kris McGuffie MANPTS '19 — 2020-01-28T13:06:09-0800

Deputy Director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Kris McGuffie ‘97, MANPTS ‘19 reflects on the currents that transported her through two Middlebury degree programs and into a new field.

Words at Work

Sara Thurber Marshall — 2020-01-28T11:11:14-0800

What does it take to be a translator and interpreter for a drug task force in New York City? Middlebury Institute alumna Lucía Falcón Palomar MATI ‘17 is featured in the Winter 2020 Communiqué.

As Needed

Eva Gudbergsdottir — 2020-01-27T16:11:40-0800

Within the Middlebury Institute’s Custom Language Services Program, no two solutions are the same.

Atonement

Eva Gudbergsdottir — 2020-01-27T15:12:50-0800

In the new documentary film, The Hunter Legacy, Middlebury Institute International Environmental Policy alumnus Hunter Sykes MAIEP ‘05, explores issues related to human-wildlife conflict and comes to terms with his own family legacy.

The Future Belongs to Globalists

Jeff Dayton-Johnson — 2020-01-27T14:36:00-0800

“Now more than ever, we are also motivated by what the world needs of our graduates,” Dean of the Institute Jeff Dayton-Johnson writes in his View from Segal column. “The world needs globalists.”

Winter 2020: In Brief

bgudbergsdottir@middlebury.edu — 2020-01-26T08:57:31-0800

Recent news from members of the Institute community in Monterey and around the world.