Name:	Georgia Nigro
Title:	Professor
Department:	Psychology
Organization:	Bates College
Phone:	(207) 786-6183
Fax:	(207) 786-8338
Email:	gnigro [a] bates.edu
Address:	4 Andrew Rd. Lewiston, ME 04240

Brief Biography:
By training, I am a developmental psychologist and like others with my training, I emphasize the distinction between research, practice, and policy in my teaching and work with students. This distinction comes alive for students in the service-learning and community-based research methods courses I teach and the projects on which I collaborate with students and community partners. I have worked hard to balance the demands of my discipline—psychology—with the needs of my community partners, who include but are not limited to school teachers, housing authorities, youth-serving agencies, and Head Start. The rigor versus relevance trade-off comes up frequently in the community-based research work I do, as does the need to be flexible and eclectic about the research methods I employ.

Areas of Expertise