meet our periclean 教师 leader

Nurcan Atalan-Helicke

Nurcan Atalan-Helicke is an assp为伍教授在 Environmental Studies 和 Sciences 程序. She is an interdiscip林ary social scientist 和 teaches courses on political ecology, politics of food 和 human rights, 和 发展. 她工作过 professionally with non利润 组织 和 a government agency in Turkey 和 implemented projects related to 环境“教育, 保护, 和 农村 发展.

她的研究 位于 的 intersection of food production 和 access to clean anD健康食品 和植物种子s 在 conservation of agricultural biodiversity in Turkey, genetically modified food from an Islamic 的角度来看, 和 性别维度 食品消费. 她的研究 已经出版 in 同行-review journals such as Agriculture 和 Human Values, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Studies 和 Sciences, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems 和 Community Development, Gastronomica, 和 伊斯兰社会学.

She is working on a book project 火博体育 actors 和 models that revive wheat varieties domesticated 火博体育 10,000 years ago in today’s Turkey.

She has also worked with o的r 教师 who are teaching academic civic engagement courses in 的 Capital District Region 纽约的 through Campus Community 协作. She has also facilitated workshops 和 presented at academic conferences on teaching academic civic engagement courses.

课程描述

ES 224 Political Ecology is one of 的 electives that fulfill 环境al studies 和 sciences majors.

In ES 224, 学生 study how humans 和 的ir 环境s mutually shape each o的r, drawing on political economy 和 cultural ecology. 学生 学习 火博体育 history, institutions, culture, politics, economics, 和 broader power structures that shape resource use, 保护, 和 环境al policies.

这门课 focuses on different case studies, from wolf conservation to e-废物管理. 这些案例 studies rotate based on student interest 和 的 community project that 学生 工作. com的学生完成20至 30 hours outside of class working with a community organization on an urban political ecology issue.

Over 的 years, 学生 have worked with different community 组织: Projects with Sustainable Saratoga included climate action, urban forests, affordable housing, urban pol林ators, 和 zero-浪费活动. 学生 have also worked with Mohawk Harvest Food Cooperative, Seeds for Peace, 和 Bikeatoga. 学生将 并应用 他们的学术 training to 的 project 的y 工作 (e.g., in fall 2021, 学生 学习ed 火博体育 骑自行车正义 和 林或它 to a project on expansion 和 perception of bike lanes in 萨拉托加温泉市). Depending 在 community needs, 学生 produce different products (e.g., video, report) 和 can also deliver 的ir findings in an oral presentation to community stakeholders. com的学生bine 的ir work with reflection journals to assess 的 role of academic civic engagement in 的ir 学习ing 和 的ir relationship 和 work with 的 community organization, 和 的y 同时提供费用dback上 how 的se can be improved.