Alan Marwine Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology 

Richardson 303 
One Brennan Circle
Poultney, VT 05764-1199
Email: marwinea@greenmtn.edu
802-287-8068; Fax: 802-287-8080

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

"We need knowledge - public awareness - of the small cogs and wheels, but sometimes I think there is something we need even more. It is the thing that Forest and Stream, on its editorial masthead, once called 'a refined taste in natural objects.' Have we made any headway in developing a 'refined taste in natural objects'?"

--Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac

Education
A.B. 1968 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Psychology, with Honors

M.S. 1970 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Experimental Psychology

Ph.D. 1973 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Psychobiology

M.A. 1984 St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Liberal Education

Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Experience
1973-75 Research Associate, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.,
Department of Animal Behavior, American Museum of Natural History, NY.

1974-75 Acting Principal Investigator MH08366-12
Department of Animal Behavior, American Museum of Natural History, NY.

1975-86 Faculty, Social Science Division (no ranks); Chair, 1983-85
Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA.

1985-93 Instructor, Bard College Workshop in Language and Thinking:
A three-week intensive writing program for all entering freshmen.

1985-present Faculty Associate, The Institute for Writing and Thinking
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

1988-present Instructor, Simon's Rock Young Writers Workshop: A three-week intensive writing program for high school students.
A three-week intensive writing program for high school students.

Professional Contributions
Grants
Co-Director with Nancy Goldberger: "Meeting the Developmental Needs of College Students." A two-year project for curriculum development received from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), 1978-80. Simon's Rock College of Bard, Gt. Barrington, MA.

Director: "Enhancing the Contributions of the Humanities Through Faculty Study." A one-year project for curriculum development received from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1991-92. Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT.

Publications
Marwine, Alan G., & Collier, G. (1971). Instrumental and consummatory behavior as a function of rate of weight loss and weight maintenance schedule. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 74, 441-447.

Collier, G., Kanarek, R., Hirsch, E., & Marwine, A. (1977). Environmental determinants of feeding behavior: Or how to turn a rat into a tiger. In: M. Siegel & H. P. Ziegler (Eds.), Psychological Research: From the Inside Out. New York: Harper and Row.

Marwine, Alan G., & Collier, G. (1979). The rat at the water hole. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 93, 391-402.

Marwine, Alan G. (1989). From Workshop to Classroom: Reflections on the uses of informal writing. In P. Connolly & T. Valardi (Eds.), The role of writing in mathematics and science. New York: Columbia Teachers College Press.

Workshops and Consulting
1980 – present: Workshop leader and consultant for writing instruction in a variety of disciplines at secondary and post-secondary institutions across the country

Avocations
Hiking: Eight days, rim-to-rim, Grand Canyon National Park (1987)
Nine days, West rim, Zion National Park (1988)
Rafting and Canoeing: Twelve days, Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park (1990)
White water canoeing instructor (1984-2000)
Astronomy: Total Solar Eclipse August 1999, Harput Turkey; Transit of Venus June 2004, Ekincik Turkey; Total Solar Eclipse March 2006, Kas Turkey