dedication point - season 5, episode 2: emily wakild - What latin america’s national parks can teach us about land management in idaho
protected land in the US has reached a turning point. what can we learn from mexico and south america in the era of trump?
episode summary:
Emily Wakild is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands at Boise State University. She directed the Environmental Studies program from 2018-2023. Her first monograph, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks (University of Arizona Press, 2011) examines the creation of national parks during Mexico’s social revolution. She co-authored a book on teaching with Michelle K. Berry called A Primer for Teaching Environmental History (Duke, 2018). Both are available in Spanish translations. Her academic work has earned awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays program.
She is currently the Primary Investigator on a $496,914 NSF-Innovations in Graduate Education grant to study the effectiveness of place-based education as a way to confront challenges in contemporary environmental management. Entitled PLACE: Partnerships for Learning through Academic and Community Engagement, this project aims to study the role of experiential learning in enhancing the persistence, satisfaction, and placement of graduate students from interdisciplinary graduate degree programs in public lands and environmental management careers.
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