Amanda Baugh • 2025 The MacTaggart Catholic Intellectual Tradition Lecture Series • April 16, 2025
From Loretta Sanchez
The Spring 2025 lectures focus on aspects of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition that can be helpful for addressing issues or problems we, as a society, are facing. Our speakers will focus on three areas through a constructive lens — Community, Law and the Environment.
Featuring Amanda Baugh, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the Master’s Program in Sustainability, California State University, Northridge
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
7 p.m.
University Center, Mengler Conference Room
Baugh will draw on her recently published book Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism (NYU Press, 2024), drawing out some of its religious themes and how they contribute to a better understanding of environmentalism.
Amanda Baugh, Ph.D., is a scholar of the environmental humanities working at the intersection of religion, race and environmental justice. She is Professor and Associate Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the Masters Program in Sustainability at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Baugh’s research on overlooked environmental actors stems from conversations with her students at CSUN, a Hispanic-Serving Institution in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley that serves many first-generation college students from working-class, immigrant communities.
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