Judith Rosenbaum, University of Maine associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism, appeared this week on Maine Calling, as part of an episode examining the historical and sociological roots of America’s growing polarization, and how it is tied not only to politics, but to people’s deeper sense of identity.
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Mark Brewer spoke with News Center Maine about the 25th amendment. “I know that invoking the 25th Amendment is logistically possible,” the University of Maine professor of political science said. “I know there are some other people talking about removing the president via the impeachment process. That I think would be logistically very difficult to […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed University of Maine history professor Liam Riordan about the historical context of the violence on Capitol Hill. Riordan says the chaos this week reminds him of the presidential race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden in 1876, during which there were contested ballots from three southern states, and warnings from […]
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Michael Socolow, a University of Maine media historian, talked with the Portland Press Herald about the storming of the Capitol, comparing it to a failed coup in Spain in 1981. “In both cases, a small group of fanatic armed rebels tried to overthrow established democratic and constitutional norms in favor of authoritarian governance,” said Socolow.
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Spire: the Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability invites submissions for the fifth issue of the online journal planned for spring 2021. Issue 4, released in April 2020, is online. Editor Clinton Spaulding, a University of Maine communication and media ecology doctoral student, says the editorial staff seeks to include voices from a diverse range […]
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Collaboration fosters learning in mathematics courses at the University of Maine. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that brought isolation to many, graduate teaching assistants took measures to enable students to participate in collaborative group work in their classes. Whether remote or in-person, 17 graduate teaching assistants ensured students enrolled in courses for precalculus, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Joel Anderson, a University of Maine assistant professor of history, about whether 2020 was the worst year in history. According to Anderson, previous pandemics have been more challenging. “1348 was the year the Bubonic Plague, Black Death ravaged Europe pretty substantially, wiping out something like 50–60% of Europe’s population,” Anderson said.
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The Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology of the American Society of Criminology awarded Steve Barkan, a University of Maine professor emeritus of sociology, and alumnus Michael Rocque, associate professor of sociology at Bates College, the 2020 Outstanding Contribution Award for their article titled “Socioeconomic Status and Racism as Fundamental Causes of Street Criminality,” which was published […]
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Two University of Maine undergraduates are designing place-based education materials and K–12 curricula about the Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northern Indiana as part of a National Geographic Society grant. Mo Weitman and Bell Gellis Morais are working with Katherine Glover, research associate at the Climate Change Institute (CCI) and recipient of a National Geographic Society […]
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Harbin, China is a world away from Orono. In spite of the distance and the obvious differences between his Northern China birthplace and his current home at the University of Maine, Guanyu Jiang appreciates the similarities. “The dimensions of my hometown are almost the same as Maine. The climate, vegetation, and scenery are all similar,” […]
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