PROFESSIONAL VITA 2007
Frank M.
Bryan
John G.
McCullough Professor of Political Science
503 Old Mill, 94
University Place
University of
Vermont
Burlington, VT
05405-0114
Frank.bryan@uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/~fbryan
802.656.0570
Education
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut ‑ Ph.D., 1970
The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ‑ M.A., 1965
St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont ‑ B.A., 1963
Newbury Graded and High School, Newbury, Vermont
Present
Position
Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Vermont
Teaching
Fields
American Government and Politics
State and Local Politics and
Policy
Public Administration
Research Methods and Methodology
Other
Appointments
Advisory Board, Freedom and Unity,
a film on Vermont 2007 -
Advisory Board, National Project Vote
Smart 2006 -
Contributing Editor, Journal of Public
Deliberation 2005 –
Advisory Board, Second Vermont Republic
2005 -
Political Science Curriculum Committee
2004-
Curriculum Subcommittee, Center for
Research on Vermont 2002 -
Executive Committee, Center for Research
on Vermont 2001 -
Commentator, Vermont Public Radio 2000 –
Board of Scholars and Advisory Council,
Ethan Allen Institute, 2000 -
Advisory Board, “Annual Editions,”
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishing Company 1996 –
Memberships
The
American Political Science Association
The
American Society for Public Administration
The
Vermont Historical Society
The
Vermont Folklore Society
Vermont
Council on the Humanities
Pi
Alpha Alpha
Pi
Sigma Alpha
The
Center for Research on Vermont
Ethan
Allen Institute
Publications
BOOKS (Academic)
Frank Bryan, with Susan Clark, All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the
Secrets of Town Meeting and Community (Montpelier: RavenMark, 2005).
____, Real Democracy: The New England
Town Meeting and How It Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
____, (editor) Readings in American
Government (Minneapolis: West Publishing Co., 1991).
____, with John McClaughry, The
Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale, (Chelsea,
Vermont: The Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1989).
____, Politics in the Rural
States: People, Parties and Processes (Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1981).
____, Yankee Politics in Rural Vermont
(Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1974).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
____, “Political Participation” and
“Leading America into the 21st Century” in Gary Aguiar (ed), Government
in the Countryside (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2007).
____, "Town Meeting," and "Orville Gibson" in John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, and Ralph H. Orth (eds.) The Vermont Encyclopedia (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003).
____, “Direct Democracy and Civic
Competence: The Case of Town Meeting,” in Stephen L. Elkin and Karol E.
Sulton (eds.) Democracy and Citizen Competence (University Park,
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998).
____, “Interest Groups,” in Michael
Sherman (ed.) Vermont State Government and Administration 1965-1995
(Burlington, Vermont: The Center for Research on Vermont and the Snelling
Center for Public Policy, the University of Vermont, 1998).
____, “Vermont: Interest
Groups in a Rural Technopolity,” with Ann Hallowell in Ron Hrebenar and Clive
Thomas (eds.) Interest Group Politics in the Northeast (University Park,
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).
____, “Vermont: Of Land,
People and Democracy,” in C. L. Gilbert (ed.) Vermont Odysseys
(Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1991).
____, “Defining Rural:
Returning to Our Roots,” in James Seroka (ed.) Public Administration in
Rural America (Greenwich, Connecticut: The Greenwood Press, 1986).
____, “The Rural Technopolity,” in
Nicholas Muller III and Sam Hand (eds.) In a State of Nature: Readings
in Vermont History (Montpelier, Vermont: The Vermont Historical
Society, 1982).
____, “The New England Governors”
in Josephine Milburn and Victoria Schuck (eds.) New England Politics
(Boston: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1981).
____, “Legislative Apportionment in
Vermont,” in Alan Heslop (ed.), Redistricting in the 1980's (Claremont,
California: The Rose Institute of State and Local Government, 1981).
ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
____, with Ian Baldwin,
“The Once and Future Republic of Vermont, ” Washington Post (April 1,
2007).
____, “Town Meeting: The
People’s Congress,” Burlington Free Press (March 4, 2007).
____, “Women Rule at Town
Meeting,” Burlington Free Press (March 4, 2007).
____, “A Schoolhouse of
Civility,” Sunday Rutland Herald (March 4, 2007).
____, “Secessionism and
Vermont,” Vermont Commons (January 2007).
____, “The True Congress,” Vermont
Commons (March 2006).
____, “Towards Our New
Republic,” Vermont Commons (January 2006).
____, “The Prodigal Nation,” Vermont Commons
(April 2005).
____, “The New England Town Meeting in Action”
(Review) The American Political Science Review (June, 2001) pp.489-490.
____, “Town Meeting: Keeper of the
Sacred Flame,” (Essay accompanying Vermont’s Contribution to the Smithsonian’s
20th Century Collections, Washington, DC, 2000).
____, “Direct Democracy and Civic
Competence,” The Good Society 5 (Fall, 1995).
____, “Turtle on its Back,” PEGS
Newsletter (December, 1993).
____, “Rearranging the Deck
Chairs,” reprinted in The Yankee Planner 13 (Winter, 1993).
____, “Rearranging the Deck
Chairs,” Planning Commissioners Journal (November/December, 1992).
____, “The Future Is Not What It
Was Supposed to Be,” The Constituent (December, 1992).
____, “Going it Alone,” Chronicles
(May/June, 1991).
____, with Clark Bensen,
“Strengthening Democratic Control: Vermont's 1986 Election in Historical
Perspective,” Vermont History (Fall, 1988).
____, “Town Meeting,” The
Sovereign Citizen (Fall, 1988).
____, “Hill Farm with Computer,” North
by Northeast (June, 1988).
____, “A Habit of the Heart,” Upper
Valley (March/April, 1988).
____, “Pivot Point for Democracy,” Window
of Vermont 3 (February, 1987).
____, “Town Meeting Debate,” Vermont
Life 40 (Spring, 1986).
____, with Clark Bensen, “The 1984
Election in Vermont,” Vermont History (Fall, 1985).
____, “Trouble in the Vermont
Hills,” Newsweek (March 13, 1984).
____, with Clark Bensen, “The 1982
Election in Vermont,” Vermont History (Fall, 1983).
____, “Learning Through Conflict,” Teaching
Political Science (Winter, 1983).
____, “The Lonely Villagers:
Vermont in the Post Modern World,” Vermont (Fall, 1982).
____, “Rural Renaissance: Is
America on the Move Again?” Public Opinion 5 (June/July, 1982), pp. 16‑21.
____, “Hands Off Town Meeting,” New
York Times (April 3, 1982).
____, with David Rosenbloom,
“Public Bureaucracies Within States,” State and Local Government Review
(September, 1981).
____, with Sam Hand, “The 1980
Elections in New England,” State Government (Spring, 1981).
____, “Charting the Republican
Erosion,” Vermont History (Winter, 1981).
____, “Town Meeting: A Rural
Option for Urban America?” National Civic Review (December, 1978).
____, “Town Meeting–Pure Democracy
in Action,” in What This Community Needs . . . An Anthology of
Advocates Views (Helena, Montana: State Commission on Local
Government, January, 1976).
____, “Opening the Time Lock of the
Vermont Constitution: A Statistical Analysis of the 1974 Referendum,” Vermont
History (Spring, 1976).
____, “Self‑Government Powers
and Responsive Government,” Citizen's Guide to Self‑Government Powers
(Bureau of Government Research, University of Montana, 1975).
____, and Kenneth Bruno, “Asphalt
in the Wilderness: The Politics of the Green Mountain Parkway
Controversy,” Vermont History (Fall, 1973).
____, “Town Meeting Support in
Vermont,” National Civic Review (July, 1972).
____, “People and Politics,” Chittenden
(January, 1972).
____, “Catholic Education Aid‑‑Yankee
Style,” America (September, 1971).
____, “The Politics of Town Meeting
‑ Another View,” Chittenden (February, 1970).
____, “The Metamorphosis of a Rural
Legislature,” Polity (December, 1968).
____, “The Encounter,” The New
England Guide (Summer, 1968).
____, “Who is Legislating?”
National Civic Review (December, 1967).
____, “Politics and Poetry,” Vermonter
(August, 1967).
____, and Frederick J. Matkin,
“Shadowboxing with Poverty,” Rally (October, 1966).
____, “The State That Might Have
Been,” Vermonter (October, 1966).
____, “Town Meetings or Regional
Government?” Vermonter (August, 1966).
____, “Viewing the Charter,” Rural
Vermonter, (May, 1966).
____, “Reapportionment and the
Vermont Town,” Rural Vermonter (Spring, 1964).
REPRINTS
Re-Inventing Vermont: Towards 21st
Century Blueprints “The Vermont Commons” (March 2006), excerpts
from The Vermont Papers.
Vermont: The Once and Future Republic “The Montpelier Bridge” (February 2006),
reprinted from the January 2006 issue of “The Vermont Commons.”
Readings in American Government (Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Publisher,
1992) excerpts from The Vermont Papers.
Rereading America: Cultural
Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing 2nd. ed., Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle
eds., (Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1992), excerpts from The Vermont
Papers.
Putting Power in its Place, Judith and Christopher Plant, eds.
(Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992), excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
Utne Reader (Jan/Feb 1991) excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
New Options (April 28, 1989) excerpts from The
Vermont Papers.
PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Author Meets Critics: Frank Bryan's Real
Democracy ” Presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association
Conference, Philadelphia, November, 2005.
“Human Scale Thinking About Macro-Scale
Politics: Should Vermont Secede from the Union?” Presented at the Second
Vermont Convention of the Second Vermont Republic, Montpelier, October, 2005.
“Technology and Democracy: A Challenge
for Local Governments” Presented at the Annual Vermont Town Officers Conference
(four venues: Lyndon, Burlington,
Rutland, and Fairlee), spring 2005.
“Size and Democracy: A Roundtable
Discussion on Frank Bryan’s Real Democracy” Presented at the Southern
Political Science Conference, New Orleans, January, 2005.
“Direct Democracy in Action: A Critical
Look at Frank Bryan’s Real Democracy” Presented at the American
Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, September, 2004.
“Social Science and Writing for Popular
Audiences: Is It Possible?” Presented before the League of Vermont Writers,
Manchester, Vermont, July 2000.
“Politics and Land Use Planning in
Vermont” Presented Before the Vermont Wildlife Conference, Basin Harbor Club,
Vergennes, Vermont, September, 2000.
“Technology, Politics, and the Future of
Local Government” Presented Before the Vermont League of Cities and Towns,
Killington, Vermont, September, 2000.
“Three Chords and the Truth: Town Meeting
Technology, and Democracy” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Atlanta Georgia, September, 1999.
“Diversity and the Search for Democracy:
From Aristotle to Putnam” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vermont
Council for the Humanities South Burlington, Vermont November, 1999.
“Town Meeting and the Story of
Democracy,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vermont Alliance for
Social Studies, Killington, Vermont December, 1999.
“How Does Town Meeting Treat Women” Paper Presented at
the Research in Progress Seminar sponsored by the Center For Research on
Vermont Burlington, Vermont February 1999.
“Decentralized Polities on a Planetary Scale: The Case for the Small Commonwealth (Vermont) in the World of Nations” Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, Salisbury, Connecticut, October 1998.
“‘Old Age Ain’t for Sissies; Huntington
House and the Issue of Regulating Senior Citizens’ Care in Vermont” Paper
presented at the Research in Progress Seminar sponsored by the Center
for Research on Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, February, 1998.
“Technology and Democracy: The Potential
for Popular Governance in the 21st Century” Paper Presented as
Part of the Distinguished Lecture Series, The Department of Political Science,
The University of North Carolina at Ashville, November, 1997.
“Does Town Meeting Promote Citizen
Competence?” Paper presented at the Conference on Citizen Competence
sponsored by the Society for the Political Efficacy of the Good Society (PEGS),
Washington, DC, March 1995.
“Direct Democracy: Dead or
Alive--New Findings on Town Meeting” Paper presented at the Research In
Progress Seminar sponsored by the Center for Research on Vermont, Burlington,
Vermont, February 1995.
“The Case for Decentralism in the
Criminal Justice System” Paper delivered as part of the 1993 Colloquium
Series, Department of Criminal Justice, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, February, 1993.
“Democracy and Administration:
Three Paradigms Explored” Paper delivered at Mississippi Political
Science Association Meeting, Jackson, Mississippi, January 26, 1993.
“Is Democracy Possible: Technology
and the Hope for Human Scale” Essay delivered as part of the Political
Science Department's Guest Lecture Series, Providence College, Providence,
Rhode Island, February 27, 1991.
“Town Meeting in the New England
Tradition” Delivered at the Nichols College Symposium on New England's
Traditions, November, 1986.
“Correlates of Participation in the New
England Town Meeting” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1986.
“The Size Variable and Direct
Democracy” Delivered at the Fourth Annual Chautauqua in Mississippi, The
School of Architecture and Center for Small Town Research and Design,
Mississippi State University, October 12, 1983.
“Agriculture Policy and Rural
Affairs: Insuring the Twain Shall Meet” Delivered before the
National Advisory Council on Rural Development, Washington, DC, USDA, August,
1983.
With Fred Schmidt, “The Nuclear Freeze
Vote in Town Meeting” Delivered at the Research in Progress Seminar
of the Center for Research on Vermont, The University of Vermont, Burlington,
Vermont, February, 1983.
“Are We a Nation Neither of Laws Nor Men But of Numbers?” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public Administration (Regions 1 and 2), Hartford, Connecticut, December, 1981).
“Learning Through Conflict: The
Mock Trial Experience” Delivered at the Annual New England Conference on
Teaching Students to Think, Amherst, Massachusetts, November, 1981.
“The Decline of the Party System:
The Case of Vermont” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the New England
Political Science Association, Durham, New Hampshire, April, 1981.
“The Tyranny of Information
Systems” Delivered at VTASPA Seminar on Information Systems in the Public
Sector, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, March, 1981.
“Saying it with Numbers” Delivered
at the Research in Progress Seminar of the Center for Research on Vermont,
Brattleboro, Vermont, May, 1980.
“Should We Become Again 'A Nation of Laws
and Not of Men' (or Groups)? The Case for Administrative Rationalism”
Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public
Administration (Regions 1 and 2), Portland, Maine, October 3‑5, 1979).
With David Rosenbloom, “The Size of State
Bureaucracies: An Exploratory Analysis” Delivered at the Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March, 1979.
“Town Meeting: Is There a Role in
Technological Society?” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the New
England Political Science Association, Durham, New Hampshire, April, 1979.
“Toward a Theory of Rural Politics”
Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
New York City, September, 1978.
“Policy‑Making in the Open
Forum: Town Meeting in the Rural Technopolity” Delivered at the
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia,
Nov., 1976.
“Manager Government in Montana: A
View from Two Cities” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
Montana Academy of Sciences, Havre, Montana, May, 1976.
“Ecological Causation and Partisan
Breakthrough, Vermont‑‑A Case Study” Delivered at the Annual
Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, Fall, 1975.
“Correlates of Feminine Participation in
Town Meetings” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Rural
Sociology Society, San Francisco, California, August, 1975.
“Voting Behavior in a Two Party Rural Legislature: An Application of Cluster‑Bloc Analysis” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Western Social Sciences Association, Denver, Colorado, Spring, 1975.
“Legislators, Constituencies, and Policy
in the Montana Legislature” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
Montana Academy of Science, Billings, Montana, Spring, 1975.
“Comparative Town Meetings‑‑A
Search for Correlates of Citizen Involvement in Politics” Delivered at
the New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Northeastern
University, Spring, 1973.
MONOGRAPHS
_____, “Town Meeting: Keeper of the
Sacred Flame,” (Essay accompanying Vermont’s Contribution to the Smithsonian’s
20th Century Collections, Washington, DC, 2000).
_____, “Preserving Vermont's Political
Heritage: Cosmetics or Culture,” in Marshall True, Mary Woodruff and
Kristin Peterson‑Ishaq (eds.) Teaching Vermont's Heritage (Burlington,
Vermont, The University of Vermont, 1984).
_____, with Robert E. Eagle,
“Teacher's Manual for Local Government Review in Montana: Power to the
People,” (Bureau of Government Research, The University of Montana, Missoula,
Montana, 1976).
BOOKS (Humor and General Interest)
____, with Melissa Lee Bryan, The Very Latest Vermont Quiz Book
(Shelburne, VT: The New England Press, 2002).
____, with Bill Mares, The
Vermont Owner’s Manual (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 2000).
____, with Bill Mares, Out of
Order (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 1991).
____, with Bill Mares, Out!
The Vermont Secession Book (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England
Press, 1987).
____, with Melissa Lee Bryan, The
Vermont Quiz Book (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press, 1986).
____, with Bill Mares, Real
Vermonters Don't Milk Goats (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England
Press, 1983).
____, with Bill Mares, The Real
Vermonter's Address Book, (Shelburne, Vermont: The New England Press,
1984).
(Articles and Op. Ed. Pieces)
____, “A Christmas Card for Mom,” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press (December
28, 2001).
____, “Thinking About Civil Unions” (Op. Ed.) Rutland Herald (September
12, 2000).
____, “Font of Wisdom” Computer User Vermont (October 1997).
____, “Townscape Newbury" Vermont Magazine (November/December,
1989).
____, “Jade” Vermont Life (Spring, 1988).
____, “The Politics of the Growth Bill” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press
(April 12, 1988).
____, “A Peasant of West Brattleboro” (Review) Vermont Life (Summer,
1988).
____, “Education or Else” Window of Vermont (February, 1987).
____, “Notes On the Four Year Term” Window of Vermont (April, 1987).
____, “Who Are The Great Vermonters?” Vermont Sunday Magazine (September
27, 1987).
____, “Town Meeting at Wounded Knee” Window of Vermont (March,
1986).
____, “Only Jackasses Don’t Buckle Up” Window of Vermont (June, 1986).
____, “Lilacs and Homeland” Window of Vermont (August, 1986).
____, “The Vermont Character” Vermont Sunday Magazine (September 21,
1986).
____, “The Kiss of Death Poll” Window of Vermont (October, 1986).
____, “Knowing Vermont” Window of Vermont (December, 1986).
____, “Real Vermonters and Real Democracy” Window of Vermont (Spring,
1985).
____, “Corn? Fiddlesticks!” Window of Vermont (Summer, 1985).
____, “Vermont’s Political Soap Opera” (Op. Ed.) Burlington Free Press (January
31,1984).
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
General
Recipient: Curtiss/Loyzelle Green Mountain
Boys’ State Director’s Award for over 20 years of delivering the keynote
address at the Governor’s Inauguration Ceremony, June, 2006.
Recipient: Named John G. McCullough Professor
of Political Science, University of Vermont, 2005
Designate: Member of the Blue-Ribbon Panel,
“Politics and the Public Trust: In Search of the Next Generation of Civic Heroes,”
with panel members New York Times correspondent Adam Clymer,
attorney/author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former Vermont Governor Madeleine
Kunin, and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy at the University of Vermont, March,
2005.
Designate: Selected for the “Prominent
Vermonters Box Lunch Auction” along with Governor James Douglas, Congressman
Bernie Sanders and others at the Annual Vermont History Expo, June 2004.
Recipient: Doctor
of Letters (All 26). Given by the
Newbury Elementary School, January 2004.
Designate: Delivered
the First Annual "Last Lecture" at the 1996 Convocation Ceremony of
the University of Vermont.
Recipient: Dean's
Lecture Award. Given by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the
University of Vermont, 1996.
Recipient: Andrew
E. Nuquist Town Government Award. Given by the Vermont League of Cities
and Towns, 1986.
Recipient: The
1986 Annual New England Local Hero Award. Given by the New England
Monthly for service on behalf of the defense of town meeting.
Recipient: Recognition
of Service Award National Advisory Council on Rural Development,
1986-1988 United States Department of Agriculture, 1988.
Recipient:
Certificate
of Service The American Society for Public Administration 1983-1985.
Teaching
Pi Sigma Alpha Award American Political
Science Association, Chicago (September 2004).
George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty
Award, University of Vermont Alumni Association, (May 2004).
Class of 2004 Award for Valuable
Contributions to Students (April 2004).
Kroepsch-Maurice
Award for Excellence in Teaching University of Vermont, (October 1999).
Pi Sigma Alpha Award American Political
Science Association Atlanta Georgia, (September 1999).
Senior Class Council Award for
Contributions to the Students of the University of Vermont (Spring, 1991).
Faculty Development Grant for Teaching
Public Administration, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont, 1979.
The 1974 St. Michael's College Community
Service Award.
Co‑Recipient of the dedication of
the 1974 Shield (The St. Michael's Yearbook).
The Reverend Gerald E. Dupont Award,
1974, given by the Student Senate of St. Michael's College.
Senior Appreciation Award for Superior
Teaching, St. Michael's College, (May 1973).
Senior Appreciation Award for Superior
Teaching, St. Michael's College, (May 1972).
Recognitions
“Free Vermont: Green Mountain Boys Ponder
Secession,” The American Conservative (December 19, 2005).
“In Vermont, A Scholar Records Democracy
at Work,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 1, 2005).
“Town Meeting Tradition,” The View (March
2005).
“UVM People Making a Difference,” The
Greatness Within Our Grasp (October 2003).
“Interview with Professor Bryan,” Vermont
Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (Autumn, 2003).
“Frankly Speaking: An Interview with UVM
Professor Frank Bryan,” Vermont Magazine (Nov/Dec 2001)
“The Bull Will Kill You,” Vermont
Quarterly The publication of the University of Vermont (Autumn, 1996).
“Keeper of the Vermont Character” feature
article Yankee Magazine by Jay Stevens (March, 1992).
One of “13
People Changing the Face of Vermont” Vermont Magazine” (January/February
1990).
“Growing Up in
Newbury,” Vermont Magazine (November/December 1989).
“Frank
Bryan’s Two Worlds” feature article in The Valley Voice by Tom Hill
(November, 1988).
One the 20th
Century Writers “Who Capture Vermont’s Unique Character” Vermont Life
(Winter, 1989).
One of “New England Leading Humorists” Yankee
Magazine (September, 1987).
Featured in: Kathleen Thompson, Portrait
of America: Vermont (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Roundtree Publishers, A
Turner Book and Video, 1987).
“An Interview with Frank Bryan: Real
Vermonters and Real Democracy,” Window of Vermont (Winter/Spring
1984-85).
Other
Positions (Past)
Faculty Senate, University of Vermont,
2002-2004.
Admissions Committee, The Masters of
Public Administration Program, 1995-2004
Advisory Editor Current Editions (State
and Local Government) 1993-1997.
Visiting Professor and Director of MPA
Program, Mississippi State University, 1992-93.
Graduate Officer, Political Science
Department, 1990-1992.
Curriculum Committee, Department of
Political Science, the University of Vermont, 1990-1993.
Faculty Bicentennial Committee, College
of Arts and Sciences, 1990-92.
Advisory Committee, College of Arts and
Sciences Newsletter, 1990-93.
Senior Editor, Window of Vermont,
1985‑87.
Contributing Editor, Window of Vermont,
1984‑85.
Scholar in Residence, Republican National
Committee, Washington, D.C., January 2 ‑ April 30, 1986.
Director, Master of Public Administration
Program, the University of Vermont, 1983‑85.
Member, National Rural Development
Commission, Washington, D.C., 1982-85.
President, Vermont Chapter of the
American Association for Public Administration 1982-1984.
Assistant Professor, Department of
Political Science, The University of Vermont, 1977‑83.
Visiting Professor, Department of
Political Science, Middlebury College, 1977‑78.
Adjunct Professor, Johnson State College,
1979, 1981, 1983, 1984.
Administrative Director, Inter‑University
MPA Program, Montana State University ‑ The University of Montana, 1976.
Director, Summer Institute in Teacher
Training for Local Government Review (Funded under Title I of the Higher
Education Act of 1965), Montana State University, Summer, 1975.
Head, Department of Political Science,
Montana State University, 1975‑76.
Chairman of Government and Associate
Professor, Montana State University, 1974‑75.
Associate Professor of Political Science,
St. Michael's College, 1973‑74.
Associate Editor, The Vermont Freeman,
1969‑70.
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
St. Michael's College, 1970‑73.
Instructor of Political Science, St.
Michael's College, 1968‑70.
Research Assistant, The Eagleton
Institute of Politics, 1968.
N.D.E.A. Research Fellow, The University
of Connecticut, 1967‑68.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The
University of Connecticut, 1965‑67.
Social Studies Teacher, Orleans High
School, Orleans, Vermont, 1964‑65.
Assistant Director of Financial Aid, The
University of Vermont, 1964.