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CCU professor is finalist for state award

Pamela L. Martin, professor of politics and geography at Coastal Carolina University, is one of nine finalists for the 2014 S.C. Governor’s Professor of the Year award.

Martin is the director of CCU’s Model United Nations program. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and taught at La Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Her research and writing focus on global environmental politics, energy, sustainable development, and international relations and policy. Martin is the author of the books “Oil in the Soil: The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon” and “Introduction to World Politics: Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet,” as well as numerous scholarly articles in her field.

Selected from a total of 30 candidates nominated by their respective institutions, the recipients of this prestigious award exemplify excellence in teaching and advising. This year marks the 26th anniversary of the award.

The award is presented each year to a professor representing the state’s senior public and independent universities and a professor representing the state’s two-year colleges. The 2014 Professors of the Year are Milind N. Kunchur, professor of physics at the University of South Carolina, and Christopher J. Hall, instructor and academic program manager for criminal justice technology at Central Carolina Technical College in Sumter.
 

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