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Tara Pisani Gareau is the Director of Boston College’s Environmental Studies Program and a Professor of the Practice in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department. She is an agroecologist whose research includes conservation biological control, wild bee pollination services, and the interactions between climate and agriculture. Her research is focused on redesigning agricultural systems to be sustainably productive, while conserving biodiversity and preserving our wild ecosystems. Tara teaches courses in agroecology, ecology, sustainable agriculture, climate change, and senior environmental seminars.

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Ángeles Picone is an Assistant Professor of History at Boston College. She is interested in the intersection of nature and nation-making in border regions. Particularly, she is drawn to questions on how people experience a shared sense of community through their spatial practices. She grew up in the Patagonian Andes, where her education was sprinkled by field trips to caves, glaciers, and mountain peaks. At BC, she teaches courses on Latin American History, Spatial History, Environmental History, Global Borderlands, and Sports. In her free time, she rows on the Charles River.

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Franziska Seraphim is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. She holds a PhD in modern Japanese History from Columbia University. She published War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 with Harvard, and is currently working on “geographies of justice” under the Allied occupations of Japan and Germany in global contexts. She pays particular attention to how “place” shapes Japanese culture in continuous and fascinating ways. Prof. Seraphim has taught Japanese and Asian history at BC on all levels since 2001; she also directs the Asian Studies Program.