Stanger began her career as a risk management analyst with The Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1983 to 1984. Her first academic appointment was as an assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College in 1991. Stanger was the recipient of several research fellowships and grants between 1991 and 1995,focusing on Eastern European languages and foreign policy studies. From 1995 to 1996,she was a visiting scholar at Prague's Charles University. She has held a succession of academic positions in political economy,geopolitics and international affairs at Middlebury,including chairman of the Department of Political Science from 2009 to 2012.[3]
Stanger was the director of Middlebury College's Geonomics Center for International Studies from 1999 to 2002. She was the founding director of the Geonomics Center's successor,the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs,from its inception in 1999 until her resignation in July 2012.[4]
Stanger's current research focuses on the relationship between technology,the law,and politics. She is a faculty member at Middlebury College,teaching undergraduate courses such as "Politics of Virtual Realities","Democracy in America","Political Development of Western Europe",and "American Foreign Policy".[5] Stanger is also a Cybersecurity Fellow with New America.[3]
Stanger is writing two new books,titled Consumers Versus Citizens:How the Internet Revolution is Remaking Global Security and Democracy's Public Square and Who Elected Big Tech?
Assault at Middlebury College
On March 2,2017,Stanger accompanied political scientist Charles Murray as his academic escort to a Middlebury College speaking engagement on campus at Wilson Hall.[9] She was injured outside the McCullough Student Center during an attack by protesters attempting to obstruct and damage the vehicle she and guest speaker Murray were riding in as they left the campus.[10][11] Stanger was diagnosed with a concussion as a result of the assault.[12] The next day,Middlebury College President Laurie L. Patton confirmed that the protesters' behavior "[inside and outside Wilson Hall] was in clear violation of Middlebury College policy".[13]
Some students (and faculty[14]) felt that by refusing to allow Murray to speak,and by injuring Stanger,the Middlebury College student community "trod all over the ideas of free speech this country was founded upon".[15]
Patton later issued a statement,saying the school would conduct an investigation into the sequence of events and then determine what actions to take for those individuals who were involved. Patton also said that the Middlebury Police Department would investigate the violent confrontation outside McCullough.[16]
Personal life
Stanger is married to Michael Kraus,professor of political science at Middlebury,and has two children. She speaks,to varying levels of fluency,Czech,French,English,and Russian. Stanger was a Delegate from New York at the Democratic National Convention in 1984.[3]
Books
Complexity Economics,(co-edited with W. Brian Arthur and Eric Beinhocker) (Santa Fe Institute Press,2020).
Testimony before the Congressional Oversight Panel, “Hearing on Treasury's Use of Private Contractors on TARP” – September 22, 2010[17]
Testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, Hearing on “Responsible Contracting: Modernizing the Business of Government” – July 15, 2010[18]
Testimony before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Hearing on “Are Private Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?” – June 18, 2010[19]
↑ Anzali, Ata (March 9, 2017). "A Sad Day on Campus". The Middlebury Campus. Retrieved March 20, 2017. As I sat in McCullough Student Center, unsuccessfully trying to watch the live stream of Murray's speech in the middle of student protests, fire alarms going on and off and the live stream being cut off, I saw the frozen face of a man with whom I deeply, and fundamentally, disagreed. As events unfolded, however, I could think less and less about my disagreements with him and more and more about how much the student protesters — who could afford to ignore President Patton and Professor Stanger's open and strong invitation for civic engagement and rhetorical resilience — took the tremendous amount of freedom that they had for granted. A freedom that, even after the loss of thousands of precious lives in its pursuit, still looks like a distant dream in many countries across the globe.
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