\n\t+<\/span>Jason Castro<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: Neuroscience<\/p>\n
Appointment year<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\nDoctoral institution<\/strong>: University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\nFields of research<\/a>: <\/strong>Sensory systems, olfaction, electrophysiology, neuro-informatics<\/p>\nWhy I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n
I really feel like I’m in the presence of a profound but knowable mystery when I think about the brain and behavior. Teaching is basically my way of connecting with kindred spirits over these things.<\/p>\n
I love the hard work of trying to understand things clearly and the challenge of reducing ideas to their essentials so they can be shared honestly and critically. I can’t think of anything more rewarding than knowing that I’ve inspired someone to also find these pursuits valuable. I get to try my hand at this every day, in the company of students who are kind, generous, and brilliant.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Jason Castro has been promoted to associate professor of neuroscience at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\n\t+<\/span>Caroline Shaw<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: History<\/p>\n
Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2010<\/p>\nDoctoral institution<\/strong>: University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\nFields of research<\/b><\/a>: Histories of Britain and Europe in the world, in particular histories of modern rights, liberalism, and humanitarianism through the lenses of slavery and abolition, refugee crises, and personal reputation<\/p>\nWhy I teach<\/b>:
\nOne of my beloved mentors, now passed away, insisted that to engage with ideas and to really study the past, one has to do so in conversation and, preferably, over a meal. She had a way of making even the most stressful of moments in a graduate student\u2019s life\u00a0\u2014 studying for comprehensive exams\u00a0\u2014 engaging and, dare I say it, fun.<\/p>\n
As a researcher, writer, and student, I can get lost in the detail, often happily. But it is in sharing that work and in investigating the voices of the past with others that I gain better perspective. Teaching is for me an extension of that process and a way of enabling my students to do the same.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Caroline Shaw has been promoted to associate professor of history at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\n\t+<\/span>Mara Tieken<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: Education<\/p>\n
Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2011<\/p>\nDoctoral institution<\/strong>: Harvard University<\/p>\nFields of research<\/b><\/a>: Rural education, college access and persistence, community organizing, race and class in rural communities
\n<\/b><\/p>\nWhy I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n
I have always been a teacher. I have taught pre-schoolers, elementary schoolers, middle schoolers, graduate students, adults seeking their GED, and now, undergraduates. I don’t think I could not<\/em> teach.<\/p>\nI love teaching. I love the challenge of figuring how to make a difficult, abstract concept \u2014 like school funding or critical race theory \u2014 accessible and relevant. I love the relationships that emerge from wandering together into new territory and unexplored topics. I love the anger students feel towards the world’s educational injustices and their passion for doing something about those injustices. Teaching keeps me engaged and hopeful.<\/p>\n
The opportunity to teach is a privilege, and I feel very lucky to teach at Bates.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Mara Tieken has been promoted to associate professor of education at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
\nPromotions to full professor<\/h3>\n\n\t+<\/span>\u00c1slaug \u00c1sgeirsd\u00f3ttir<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: Politics<\/p>\n
Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2001<\/p>\nDoctoral institution<\/strong>: Washington University<\/p>\nFields of research<\/b><\/a>: Conflict and cooperation over fisheries, ocean governance, settlement of maritime boundaries, climate change and oceans, marine spatial planning, Law of the Sea<\/p>\nWhy I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n
At Bates, I have the privilege to teach students who are curious about the world around them and who are willing to take classes covering topics they do not know much about. Ocean governance is one such class. Studying the ocean and its management allows students to explore the complexity of governance in all its messiness.<\/p>\n
My favorite moment is always when they realize that no one policy works for everyone, and that grappling with how to fairly distribute common-pool resources is difficult and time-consuming. Given that most of the students know little about the challenges facing our oceans before they sign up, I find that they are freer to think creatively about the link between politics and economics, peoples and oceans, fairness and future challenges.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u00c1slaug \u00c1sgeirsd\u00f3ttir has been promoted to professor of politics at Bates. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\n\t+<\/span>Helen Boucher<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: Psychology<\/p>\n
Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\nDoctoral institution<\/strong>: University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\nFields of research<\/b><\/a>: <\/b>Self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, cultural psychology, positive psychology<\/p>\nWhy I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n
One of my great joys of teaching psychology is to get students thinking about how psychological concepts and findings operate in their daily lives. So much of what we do is governed by habit and a lack of reflection, but psychology offers students a wonderful opportunity to carefully and critically think about the causes and consequences of their own and others\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n
I love it when we are discussing some psychological theory and I look around and see the knowing nods, smiles, and exchanged glances that signal that sense of \u201cAh yes, that has happened to me, too.”<\/p>\n
One of my other great joys is guiding students as they use their own research to contribute to psychological knowledge. This can be a frustrating struggle at times as students gain expertise and offer, at first, tentative hypotheses. But it is truly exhilarating to see them gain confidence not only in what they have learned but also in acknowledging what they still don\u2019t know about their topic.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Helen Boucher has been promoted to professor of psychology at Bates. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\n\t+<\/span>Alex Dauge-Roth<\/a>\n\t<\/h5><\/p>\nDepartment<\/b>: French and Francophone Studies<\/p>\n
Department<\/b>: Neuroscience<\/p>\n
Appointment year<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\n Doctoral institution<\/strong>: University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n Fields of research<\/a>: <\/strong>Sensory systems, olfaction, electrophysiology, neuro-informatics<\/p>\n Why I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n I really feel like I’m in the presence of a profound but knowable mystery when I think about the brain and behavior. Teaching is basically my way of connecting with kindred spirits over these things.<\/p>\n I love the hard work of trying to understand things clearly and the challenge of reducing ideas to their essentials so they can be shared honestly and critically. I can’t think of anything more rewarding than knowing that I’ve inspired someone to also find these pursuits valuable. I get to try my hand at this every day, in the company of students who are kind, generous, and brilliant.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Jason Castro has been promoted to associate professor of neuroscience at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Department<\/b>: History<\/p>\n Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2010<\/p>\n Doctoral institution<\/strong>: University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n Fields of research<\/b><\/a>: Histories of Britain and Europe in the world, in particular histories of modern rights, liberalism, and humanitarianism through the lenses of slavery and abolition, refugee crises, and personal reputation<\/p>\n Why I teach<\/b>: As a researcher, writer, and student, I can get lost in the detail, often happily. But it is in sharing that work and in investigating the voices of the past with others that I gain better perspective. Teaching is for me an extension of that process and a way of enabling my students to do the same.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Caroline Shaw has been promoted to associate professor of history at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Department<\/b>: Education<\/p>\n Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2011<\/p>\n Doctoral institution<\/strong>: Harvard University<\/p>\n Fields of research<\/b><\/a>: Rural education, college access and persistence, community organizing, race and class in rural communities Why I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n I have always been a teacher. I have taught pre-schoolers, elementary schoolers, middle schoolers, graduate students, adults seeking their GED, and now, undergraduates. I don’t think I could not<\/em> teach.<\/p>\n I love teaching. I love the challenge of figuring how to make a difficult, abstract concept \u2014 like school funding or critical race theory \u2014 accessible and relevant. I love the relationships that emerge from wandering together into new territory and unexplored topics. I love the anger students feel towards the world’s educational injustices and their passion for doing something about those injustices. Teaching keeps me engaged and hopeful.<\/p>\n The opportunity to teach is a privilege, and I feel very lucky to teach at Bates.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Mara Tieken has been promoted to associate professor of education at Bates. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Department<\/b>: Politics<\/p>\n Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2001<\/p>\n Doctoral institution<\/strong>: Washington University<\/p>\n Fields of research<\/b><\/a>: Conflict and cooperation over fisheries, ocean governance, settlement of maritime boundaries, climate change and oceans, marine spatial planning, Law of the Sea<\/p>\n Why I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n At Bates, I have the privilege to teach students who are curious about the world around them and who are willing to take classes covering topics they do not know much about. Ocean governance is one such class. Studying the ocean and its management allows students to explore the complexity of governance in all its messiness.<\/p>\n My favorite moment is always when they realize that no one policy works for everyone, and that grappling with how to fairly distribute common-pool resources is difficult and time-consuming. Given that most of the students know little about the challenges facing our oceans before they sign up, I find that they are freer to think creatively about the link between politics and economics, peoples and oceans, fairness and future challenges.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \u00c1slaug \u00c1sgeirsd\u00f3ttir has been promoted to professor of politics at Bates. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Department<\/b>: Psychology<\/p>\n Year of appointment<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n Doctoral institution<\/strong>: University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n Fields of research<\/b><\/a>: <\/b>Self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, cultural psychology, positive psychology<\/p>\n Why I teach<\/b>:<\/p>\n One of my great joys of teaching psychology is to get students thinking about how psychological concepts and findings operate in their daily lives. So much of what we do is governed by habit and a lack of reflection, but psychology offers students a wonderful opportunity to carefully and critically think about the causes and consequences of their own and others\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n I love it when we are discussing some psychological theory and I look around and see the knowing nods, smiles, and exchanged glances that signal that sense of \u201cAh yes, that has happened to me, too.”<\/p>\n One of my other great joys is guiding students as they use their own research to contribute to psychological knowledge. This can be a frustrating struggle at times as students gain expertise and offer, at first, tentative hypotheses. But it is truly exhilarating to see them gain confidence not only in what they have learned but also in acknowledging what they still don\u2019t know about their topic.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Helen Boucher has been promoted to professor of psychology at Bates. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Department<\/b>: French and Francophone Studies<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\n\t+<\/span>Caroline Shaw<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>
\nOne of my beloved mentors, now passed away, insisted that to engage with ideas and to really study the past, one has to do so in conversation and, preferably, over a meal. She had a way of making even the most stressful of moments in a graduate student\u2019s life\u00a0\u2014 studying for comprehensive exams\u00a0\u2014 engaging and, dare I say it, fun.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\n\t+<\/span>Mara Tieken<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPromotions to full professor<\/h3>\n
\n\t+<\/span>\u00c1slaug \u00c1sgeirsd\u00f3ttir<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>
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\n\n\t+<\/span>Helen Boucher<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>
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\n\n\t+<\/span>Alex Dauge-Roth<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>
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