Maine Public featured Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of archaeology at the University of Maine, as a panelist on a ‘Maine Calling’ segment about how archaeology can provide insights into Maine’s past, present and future, and how the field is changing to include Indigenous perspectives and voices.
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Food Tank interviewed Darren Ranco, associate professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) on the wellbeing of Native children and communities, tribal sovereignty and Indigenous food sovereignty. Ranco told FoodTank […]
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Four University of Maine Ph.D. students won the top awards in the college division of the 2023 Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) Student Showcase on May 3. The annual competition tasks college and high school students, who participate in separate divisions, with presenting life-science focused research projects to win cash and academic prizes. According to […]
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Raymond Pelletier, longtime University of Maine French professor and former associate director of the Canadian-American Center, passed away on May 15 at the age of 80. Pelletier joined UMaine in 1979 as an assistant professor of education and Canadian studies and cooperating assistant professor of French. For more than 30 years, he taught many courses […]
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Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public about the new CODE RED exhibit at the Maine Historical Society in Portland. The exhibit, which Ranco co-curated, explores Indigenous knowledge and environmental stewardship, how humans have previously shaped the environment and the ramifications of […]
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The Times Record noted that Darren J. Ranco, associate professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, will moderate a panel on Saturday, May 13 at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, during which six Wabanaki leaders will discuss a growing movement to center Indigenous knowledge and leadership in conservation […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that Belfast Area High School students in Chip Lagerbom’s Archaeology class recently visited the University of Maine Hudson Museum and explored its collection of Pre-Columbian and Wabanaki artifacts. A guided tour was provided as students learned of the material culture of early Mainers.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $350,000 to the University of Maine Franco American Programs for a project to digitize historic materials and make them openly available online. UMaine will conduct the project on behalf of the Franco American Collections Consortium, a collaboration of university archives that maintain collections of books, documents, photos, […]
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The Bangor Daily News featured Brenna Jones, a University of Maine junior and McGillicuddy Humanities Center undergraduate research fellow, who is studying the housing crisis in the greater Bangor area and possible solutions. In addition to finding policy solutions to address the problem, Jones, who spent her high school years both unhoused and precariously housed, […]
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Darren Ranco has spent his life determining how to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous people protect the land they inhabit. Through his work as an anthropologist and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, Ranco has studied tribal sovereignty, cultural resource protection, environmental justice and ways Native American communities can resist environmental destruction. […]
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