Love of Place and Sustainable Environmentalism - The Sower Episode 60 (audio)

Chris Anadale and Bill Batchelder interview Madeleine Austin, winner of the 2025 Batchelder Award for the Study of Place. Her winning paper was titled "An Everyman's Environmentalism: Love of Place as a Virtue."

Madeleine lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina with her husband, Joshua. She is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where she completed her MA in Political Theory in 2024.

Chris is podcast editor for the Ciceronian Society and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Bill is chairman of the Ciceronian Society and Professor of History at Waynesburg University. The Batchelder Award was established in memory of Bill’s father. 

More about the Batchelder Award: https://ciceroniansociety.org/conference/batchelder-award/

Recent essay by Madeleine: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/the-way-from-st-martins-on-the-virtue-of-paths/

0:00 Introduction

1:45 About the Batchelder Award

7:21 Conversation

The 2026 Ciceronian Society Conference will be held March 12-14 at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.  

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