Mara C. Tieken
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- Professor of Education
- Bates College View ROR record for Bates College. (opens in new tab)
Biography
Mara Casey Tieken is a professor of education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Her research focuses on educational equity for rural students and communities, including rural college access, rural school closure, and rural racial justice. She is the author of Educated out: How rural students navigate elite colleges—and what it costs them (University of Chicago Press, 2025), which was a 2025 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award winner, and Why rural schools matter (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). She is currently working on two projects: one focused on school closures in rural Black communities, and another studying rural-serving college access organizations. Mara began her career in education as a third-grade teacher in rural Tennessee.