Sociology professor Steven Barkan penned a guest column about the Affordable Care Act that ran in the Bangor Daily News and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. “The repeal of Obamacare will not make America great again,” wrote Barkan. “Instead it will once more put us at the mercy of insurance companies, and it will worsen many […]
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University of Maine Sociology professor Steven Barkan co-authored an Oxford University Press blog titled “Black lives matter in prisons too” with Bates College associate professor of sociology and alumnus Michael Rocque. They wrote that if Black people have higher street crime rates “it’s because they are so much more likely than whites to live in […]
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Steven Barkan, professor and interim chair, Department of Sociology, has received two honors from Textbook and Academic Authors Association. He received the Pynn-Silverman Lifetime Achievement Award and was named to the TAA Council of Fellows. The Pynn-Silverman Lifetime Achievement Award was established to honor individuals whose achievements over a career of devoted effort and service, […]
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Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed Steven Barkan, professor of sociology and interim chair of the department at the University of Maine, for the article “Police Reform Means Better Cops to Some, Fewer Cops to Others.” Federal and state officials have proposed various reforms to tackle widespread police brutality and systemic racism in the wake of the death […]
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Steven Barkan, professor and chair, Department of Sociology, has published a new edition of his textbook,”Social Problems: Continuity and Change,” with extensive material on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A University of Maine researcher who is a national expert on terrorism research is part of the new National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education (NCITE) Center of Excellence at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The center is funded by a 10-year, $36 million grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security Science and […]
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While “The Maine Question” podcast is on a brief spring break, host Ron Lisnet encourages listeners to check the lineup in case they missed any episodes, as well as to share their favorite conversations with friends. Topics of the podcast, now in its second season, have included news in the 21st century; dog biscuits made […]
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As Valentine’s Day approached, The Maine Edge asked several people connected with the University of Maine to define love. Those queried included Amy Blackstone, sociology professor; Kat Johnson, senior museum educator & marketing manager at the University of Maine Museum of Art; Karen Pelletreau, adjunct biology faculty; Danny Williams, executive director of the Collins Center […]
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Sympathizers of the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) use Twitter to promote justifications of mass casualty violence perpetrated against civilians by the terrorist group, according to a new study led by Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine. University of Nebraska at Omaha researchers Michael Logan, Gina Ligon and […]
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University of Maine sociology professor Steven Barkan was quoted in a recent Bangor Daily News editorial titled “With funding for gun research, safety measures should be a priority for study.” As part of a $1.4 trillion spending plan approved in December, Congress — for the first time in 20 years — approved federal funding for […]
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