Barkan Elected President of Prestigious Sociology Society
Contact: Steve Barkan, (207) 581-2383
ORONO — Steven Barkan, UMaine professor of sociology, recently became president of the national Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). He will serve a one-year term through August 2009.
Ballots were cast by the society’s national membership through email. Barkan served the previous year as president-elect.
As president, Barkan will work with the organization’s executive office on various organizational matters and will preside over and deliver a presidential address at the SSSP annual meeting next August in San Francisco. The meeting theme chosen by Barkan will be “Race, Ethnicity, and the Continuing Problem of the Color Line.” A copy of the theme statement is available on the SSSP website (www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageId/1229).
SSSP is a non-profit organization comprising an interdisciplinary community of up to 2,000 scholars, practitioners, advocates and students of sociology and other social sciences who are interested in the application of scientific and humanistic perspectives to the study of critical social problems.