Stephanie Leonard, a candidate in the Maine Studies Master of Liberal Studies has recently won the 2009 Maine Studies Research and Creativity Graduate Award for her paper titled, " Uncovering the Myth: LL Bean and the Maine Mystique." Her paper was also awarded the Vincent Hartgen Art History Travel Award for 2009 from the Department of Art. Leonard currently teaches art at Fairmount School in Bangor.
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Katherine O'Flaherty, instructor for MES101, Introduction to Maine Studies, will take part in a roundtable at the American Society for Environmental History conference in Portland, Oregon, March, 2010. The roundtable, " Teaching and Environment: Practice and Pedagogy Beyond the Discipline" will be chaired by environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, of UC Berkeley. Using her experience in teaching MES101 online, Katherine will discuss her course, which uses an environmental history framework for teaching regional studies. According to Katherine, the course helps students develop interdiscipliary practices and an appreciation for the complexity of contemporary and historical issues. |
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