{"id":1104,"date":"2006-09-21T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T20:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1104"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:52","slug":"new-prof-new-place","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2006\/fall06\/features\/new-prof-new-place\/","title":{"rendered":"New Prof, New Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like first-year students, new professors duly learn the Bates nomenclature \u2014 the difference between Pettengill and Pettigrew, College and Campus, and Kelsey and Kessler.<\/p>\n<p>But a rookie professor\u2019s zeal to explore his new surroundings can reflect more than just practical considerations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/fall06\/skinner5484C.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dressed in academic regalia, Jonathan Skinner joins his new colleagues for the procession to Convocation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Skinner, the new assistant professor of environmental studies seen here, is a former Rhodes Scholar, widely published poet, and editor of the journal ecopoetics. His writings examine the \u201ccreative-critical\u201d edges between writing and ecology.<\/p>\n<p>A native of New Mexico \u2014 he is a graduate of St. John\u2019s College in Santa Fe \u2014 Skinner\u2019s scholarly travels have taken him to the Americas, Asia, and Europe.<br \/>\nNow, he\u2019ll immerse himself and his work at Bates and Lewiston, \u201ca lively hub of learning and cultural mingling,\u201d he says, a prime spot from which to launch an exploration \u201cof our complex relationship to what surrounds us, from the urban to the rural to the coastal and mountain environments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like first-year students, new professors duly learn the Bates nomenclature \u2014 the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1096,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions\/13705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}