Barkan Receives National Awards for Textbooks

University of Maine sociology professor Steve Barkan, who received a Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence Award for his latest textbook, “Sociology, Understanding and Changing the Social World,” at the association’s annual conference recently in New Orleans, also received the TAA President’s Award for his service to the association and for his record of textbook writing and scholarship. The association posted on its website an interview with Barkan.

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