The New Gloucester Public Library is VERY EXCITED to welcome New Gloucester resident and author Mara Casey Tieken on November 18th, at 6:00pm!
Mara is a professor of education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and is the 2024 recipient of the Bates’s Kroepsch Award, which acknowledges excellence in teaching, and the 2016 recipient of the Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. She serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Research in Rural Education, and she designed and maintains a web-based toolkit for rural communities fighting school closure.
In 2011, Mara received her Doctorate of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Before beginning her graduate work, she taught third grade and adult education in rural Tennessee.
Mara is the author of Educated Out: The Uneven Geography of College Opportunity (University of Chicago Press, 2025); through the stories of nine rural first-generation students attending an elite liberal arts college, it shows that geography shapes college opportunity, from admission to post-graduation options.
Her previous book Why Rural Schools Matter (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) is an ethnographic study examining how rural schools define and sustain their surrounding communities.
(Author photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen)
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