Philip Lamy is a Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Cannabis Studies at Vermont State University, Castleton Campus, and the Coordinator of the Cannabis Studies Certificate Program Also, Dr. Lamy is an Applied Percussion Instructor in the Music Program on the Castleton campus. His teaching and research interests are in community studies, social movements, ethnomusicology, and cannabis studies. Dr. Lamy’s articles and commentary have appeared in the professional and popular media, including The Boston Globe, The London Times, Time Magazine, National Public Radio and the BBC. In 2019, Dr. Lamy and his colleagues created the Cannabis Studies Certificate Program, providing business, cultivation, historical and cultural instruction, and an internship in a professional cannabis company or setting. In addition, the CSCP provides graduates the opportunity to take the Vermont Cannabis Control Board’s “Employee ID Topic Training”, to turn out accredited Vermont cannabis employees.
- Cannabis Studies
- Community Studies
- Social Movements
- Percussion
- Ethnomusicology
- Ph.D., M.A., Northeastern University
- B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Alumnus, Berklee College of Music
- Introduction to Sociology
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- Cannabis, Culture, and Consciousness
- Sport and Society
- Social Movements, Culture, and Activism
- Community in American Society
- Anthropology of Food and Ethnocuisine
- Capstone Seminar in Sociology
- “Cannabis in Vermont”. Vermont Almanac: Stories From and For The Land, Volume IV. For the Land Publishing. Corinth, Vermont. 2023.
- “Kosa Cuba’s 2014 Percussion Workshop & Havana’s Drum Festival del Tambor”. Percussion News. Percussion Arts Society, April 16, 2013. http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2014/04/kosa-cubas-2014-percussion-workshop-havanas-drum-festival-fiesta-del-tambor/
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- “Antichrist.” Contemporary Issues Companion: White Supremacy. The Gale Group: Thompsonville, MI, 2002. Excerpted from Millennium Rage: Survivalists, White Supremacists and the Doomsday Prophecy, (Plenum, 1996).
- “Militias and Fundamentalism.” In Brenda Brasher, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. Routledge: New York, 2001.
- “UFOs and Fundamentalism.” In Brenda Brasher, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. Routledge: New York, 2001.
- “UFOs, Extraterrestrials and the Apocalypse: The Making of a Subculture.” In Martha Lee, ed. Millennial Visions: Essays on Twentieth-Century Millenarianism, Praeger, 2000.
- “Millennial Myth.” In Richard Landes, Ed. The Encyclopedia of the Millennium. Routledge: New York, 2000. “Ufology.” In Richard Landes, Ed. The Encyclopedia of the Millennium. Routledge: New York, 2000.
- “Ufology Religions.” In Richard Landes, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Millennium. Routledge: New York, 2000.
- “Alien Invasion: Ufology as an Apocalyptic Subculture.” In Nancy L. Schultz, ed. Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, Purdue University Press, 1999.
- “Secularizing the Millennium: Survivalists, Militias and the New World Order”, in Thomas Robbins and Susan Palmer, eds. Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem, Routledge, 1997.
- “Review of Daniel Wojick’s The End of the World as we Know It.” Millennial Stew, a Publication of the Center for Millennial Studies. Winter 1998, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 10.
- Millennium Rage: Survivalists, White Supremacists and the Doomsday Prophecy, (Plenum, 1996).
- “Shooting Holes in Monolithic Millennialism: A Reply.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1993, 32 (4): 399-400.
- “Millennialism in the Mass Media: The Case of Soldier of Fortune Magazine.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,” 1992, 31 (4): 408-424.
- “Punk and Middle-Class Values,” with Jack Levin. Youth and Society, Vol. 17, No. 5, December 1985. Reprinted in Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Muriel Cantor. Media, Audience and Social Structure, Sage, 1986.
