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Mercedes Quesada-Embid
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Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Studies
Entered the program in 2004
Keene, New Hampshire
Mercedes was attracted to Antioch New England for many reasons, one of which was ANE’s impressive dedication to interdisciplinary studies. She has always found it to be an important quality for an institution to support a more holistic view, especially of environmental issues.Mercedes comes from a multi-disciplinary background with a BA in Spanish Language and Culture, a BS in Biology, and an MA in History (with a focus on the environment).
She has recently moved to Keene from Maryland and is teaching Spanish Language and Hispanic culture full-time at Keene State College. She very much enjoys teaching, which gives her a chance to share her strong sense of Hispanic culture that comes out of her bilingual and bicultural background, and allows her to promote the blending of environmental justice issues with the learning of Spanish. She hopes that this will become a permanent part of the education curriculum of Spanish majors.
She has chosen to approach her doctoral research through the combined lenses of environmental history, philosophy, and hermeneutics. Her area of focus is ’El Camino de Santiago,’ an internationally renowned landscape in Northern Spain, long considered a place for pilgrimage. She is researching one of its oldest paths, which gained prominence in the eighth century. Much of what has guided her in this research has been her interest in the relationship between the globalization of ideas surrounding the preservation of lands and the strong links between environmental and social justice. She is also very much influenced by the vanishing indigenous cultures and the growing numbers of dispossessed peoples and animals throughout the world. Through her doctoral work, she would like to contribute to the ongoing dialogue and to the development of new perspectives on these complicated issues as they relate to landscape preservation.
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