Maggie Bourque

Senior Lecturer

Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources

(307) 766-5089  |  maggie@uwyo.edu  |  CV  |  Kendall House, Rm 110

 

Education

MS Natural Science Education and Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming

Thesis: "Adapting Complexity: Organizational Learning Through Institutional Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Education Programs"

Graduate Program of Teton Science Schools: Place-based Education and Field Ecology

Certificate in Shakespeare and Modern Drama (performance), British American Drama Academy, London, England

BA Philosophy and Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

 

Background and Expertise

Teaching a range of environmental studies courses, Maggie works with and mentors students at every level and academic discipline while taking creative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approaches to understanding complex relationships among people and place. 

Place—with all its layers, possibilities, and expressions—is the throughline of her work as an educator and scholar. For nearly 20 years, she has designed, implemented, and advanced interdisciplinary educational programs and curricula, facilitating experiences that invite students to explore the relationships, wonders, and complexities within the human and more-than-human worlds.  

Her professional and academic background includes environmental studies, place-based education, philosophy, nonprofit leadership, and the performing arts. Her scholarly and creative work is best described as place studies—a field that spans geography, ecology, art, and the environmental humanities and social sciences. 

Before joining the Haub School in 2010, she held positions with L.A. Theatre Works, Friends of Ballona Wetlands, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Teton Science Schools, among others.  

 

Selected Teaching

• ENR 1010, Thinking Like a Mountain 

• ENR 2000, Environment and Society

• HP 4153, Experience of Place

• ENR 4890/5890 Exploring the Human & Physical Landscapes of Queensland

• ENR 5100, Foundations of Environment, Natural Resources & Society 

Selected Academic Publications & Presentations

Fisher, R., and Bourque, M. (2022). Stories for Change: Solastalgia, climate grief, and re-storying ourselves. Journal of Folklore and Education, 2022(9), 161-171.  

Bourque, M., and Carlson, C. (2022, November). Place-based learning in a digital context. Wyoming Innovations in Learning Conference. Virtual.  

Cook, R., Sunset, M., Morris, M., and Bourque, M. (2022, June). Collecting and sharing Yellowstone: Using visual arts to facilitate cross-disciplinary connections. Conversations on Collecting Yellowstone. Bozeman, MT/Virtual. 

Bourque, M. and Hamerlinck, J. (2021). Photo essays for interpreting landscape in an instructor-led international field course. The Geography Teacher, 18(3-4), 164-170. 

Bourque, M. and Christensen, K. (2019, April). Scalar Case Studies of Integration. Invited presentation at the National Convening on Integration in Higher Education. National Academies of Science, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine. Washington, D.C.  

Bourque, M. (2019). On collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Sequencing Through Time and Place art practice. Essay for the exhibition catalogue Sequencing Through Time and Place: The Carissa Mine. Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, Margaret Wilson, artists. 13-25. 

Bourque, M. (2018, March). Place Theory in Environmental Studies and Sciences. You Are Here: A Conference on Place, Space, & Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. 

Witter, R., Suiseeya, K., Gruby, R., Hitchner, S., Maclin, E., Bourque, M., and Brosius, J.P. (2015). Moments of influence in global environmental governance. Environmental Politics, 24(6), 894-912. 

Corson, C., Gruby, R., Witter, R., Hagerman, S., Suarez, D., Greenberg, S., Bourque, M., Grey, N., and Campbell, L. (2014). Everyone’s Solution? Defining and Redefining Protected Areas at the Convention on Biological Diversity. Conservation and Society, 12(2), 190-202.  

Hagerman, S., Witter, R., Corson, C., Suarez, D., Maclin, E., Bourque, M., and Campbell, L. (2012). On the Coattails of Climate: Opportunities and threats of a warming earth for biodiversity conservation. Global Environmental Change, 22(3), 724-735.