Deirdre mageean biography of barack
While growing up in near Belfast, Deirdre M. Mageean was evacuated for the first time due to a street riot at age 11. Her experience with the troubles in Ireland shaped her career choice and led her, after 30 years of scholarly research, college teaching and administration, to CSU last year.
“I come from a family of doctors and dentists. I was on the science track,” Mageean said, but her experiences put her on a different path. “I felt I needed to understand human nature and pursued a joint program of sociology and philosophy.” After receiving an undergraduate degree in sociology and philosophy at Belfast University, she received a master's degree in sociology from the University of York and a doctorate in geography at the Open University in Ireland. Her doctoral thesis studied the differences in Irish immigrants to North America before and after the famine. Ironically, she made the same trek in 1987. She immigrated to the U.S. as she and her husband found teaching positions in Maine and brought their 13-month-old son with them. “We studied the pros and cons, and here we are,” she said. A decade of teaching and research at the University of Maine led to her next step. “In some ways I'm an accidental administrator,” Mageean said. While serving as an associate professor at the University of Maine's Department of Resource Economics and Public Policy at the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy, the director left. She became the applied research center's interim director. “I looked after the shop and discovered I liked administration and making things happen,” Mageean said, and she became the next director. She scaled the academic ladder through positions as a graduate school dean in Maine and at East Carolina University, where she also served as vice chancellor, before joining CSU. Her role at CSU is chief operating officer for the academic operations, which she summarizes succinctly as a “b2021
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Ms Alana McSorley, Mrs Elizabeth McNabney, Mrs Frances McGurgan, Ms Orla Conway, Mrs Sarah Calvert and Ms Sinead King we In the fourth Brown Bag Lunch for the Center for Refugee & Immigrant Success (CRIS), Dr. Deirdre Mageean, Professor and Jack Yochum, Research Assistant & Graduate Student, both from the Levin College of Urban Affairs will present "Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis". The intensification of natural disasters and resource scarcity due to human activity has caused an unprecedented wave of so-called "climate refugees", a term easily visualized but not precisely defined. This talk will explore how we define that title, the historical precedent for the concept, a modern example of climate vulnerability in Central America, and a look forward at the challenges the United States will face both with those fleeing from abroad and those displaced internally. Deirdre M. Mageean, Ph.D. is Professor of Urban Studies at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. In addition to 35 years of teaching, Mageean spent 15 years in university administration, most recently as Provost of CSU and before that Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Studies and Economic Development at East Carolina University and Dean of the Graduate School and Vice President for Research at the University of Maine. . Brown Bag Lunch - October 21, 2021
Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis
About Dr. Deirdre M. Mageean:
A demographer by training Mageean's area of specialization is migration, both international and domestic. She has extensive experience in applied research including work on childhood hunger and food security; demographic challenges to higher education and the workforce; the environmental impact of residential mobility patterns and historical patterns of migration to Chicago and Philadelphia. Current research is on the effectiveness of recruiting migrants to offset population loss in Rust Belt and Frost Belt cities including Cleveland, Dayton, Detroit, Buffalo and Utica.
While Vice Chancellor for Research, graduate Stud