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Pieck, co-recipient of the 2011 Kroepsch Award for Teaching<\/p><\/div>\n

Sonja Pieck, assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College, offers a lecture titled Teaching (and Learning) as Transborder Activism<\/em> at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the college’s Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Pieck was one of two Bates faculty members to receive this year’s Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Award<\/a> for Excellence in Teaching. The other was Nancy Koven<\/a>, assistant professor of psychology. Bates students and recent alumni nominate faculty for the award, and a committee of previous Kroepsch recipients selects the honoree.<\/p>\n

The lecture is open to the public at no cost. Refreshments precede the talk, at 4:15. The event is co-sponsored by the Kroepsch Award Selection Committee, division chairs, Information and Library Services, and the Dean of the Faculty’s Office. For more information, please call 207-786-6066.<\/p>\n

Pieck is giving the lecture in connection with the Kroepsch Award. A geographer by training, she researches local-to-global struggles over natural resources, with a regional focus on Latin America.<\/p>\n

She is the social-science faculty member in the environmental studies program, which is broadly interdisciplinary at Bates. Her courses explore the human-environment relationship through topics like social movements, NGOs, indigenous politics and environmental justice.<\/p>\n

She is particularly interested in transnational social movements, focusing on Latin American indigenous activism and its intersections with U.S. environmentalism. Pieck is also developing a new research project examining state rule and networks of civic resistance to regional integration initiatives in South America, especially Peru.<\/p>\n

Before coming to Bates, she was a postdoctoral lecturer and research associate in environmental studies at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

“Her enthusiasm, passion and commitment toward [environmental] issues resonate in her well-structured and interesting lectures,” says Teresa Cooper, a 2011 Bates graduate from St. Albans. “Her class opened my eyes to so many environmental issues that I had never even heard of before, and as a result I found myself changing aspects of my lifestyle.”<\/p>\n

“Sonja’s a great listener and is always ready and willing to learn from students,” adds Desmond Mushi, a junior from Mwanza, Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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