We are currently only book Speakers Bureau programs for Vermont Reads 2026: Charity and Sylvia and America 250th related programs. In September, we plan to re-open the entire Speakers Bureau catalog for bookings in 2027.
Contact Jacob Pelletier at jpelletier@vermonthumanities.org.
Coco Moseley is the Executive Director of the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Since beginning this role in 2023, she has worked alongside the staff, board and community to reimagine the Sheldon Museum as a place where stories, history and art can inspire visitors today.
Ellery Foutch is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at Middlebury College, where she teaches classes on the art and material culture of the United States, as well as critical museum studies. Her new book, A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (University of Minnesota Press, July 2026) explores period fascinations with perfection and its preservation across art, natural history, popular culture, and museum exhibition practices.
New York Times Bestselling author M. T. Anderson writes books for children, teens, and adults, including The Pox Party, which won the National Book Award; Elf Dog & Owl Head, which won a Newbery Honor Award, and the science fiction satire Feed, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and which won the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Jane, founder and former executive director of the Vermont Folklife Center, is the author of Daisy Turner’s Kin, An African American Family Saga, based on sixty interviews with the daughter of slaves.
Marek Bennett makes and teaches comics and music in New Hampshire, USA, and the world beyond. His comics work includes the graphic novel series, “The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby,” as well as drawing, translating, and editing for “The Most Costly Journey” (2021).
Alan Berolzheimer has directed the book publishing program of the Vermont Historical Society since 1998. He is also the project historian and assistant director of The Flow of History, a Teaching American History program providing professional development activities to Vermont teachers. Alan received a Ph.D. in 20th-century U.S. History from the University of Virginia in 1996. He lives in Norwich.
A graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, Tim is the director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College and founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project.
A boat builder, writer, and researcher, Douglas specializes in the construction of traditional wooden boats for museums and private clients.
Nancy is the author of six general interest books and one young adult novel, and spends part of each summer in Iceland leading history and horseback tours.
Rowly is a professor of history at Norwich University specializing in international human rights law and Cold War foreign policy.
Through Nadine’s role as the Literary Executor of the David Budbill Literary Estate, she stewards her beloved late father’s body of work and creative legacy.
A seventh-generation Vermonter, Howard Coffin is the author of four books on the Civil War with a focus on Vermont and the Champlain Corridor.
Our seasonal “Words in the Woods” program allows Vermonters and visitors to enjoy our state’s natural beauty while listening to and reading literature in the outdoors.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported the Chandler Center for the Arts’ Global Connections Youth Outreach program, which highlights artists from around the world.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
