The latest episode of the University of Maine podcast “The Maine Question” asks what choosing to be child-free means for individuals and our society. In the fifth episode of the first season, host Ron Lisnet speaks with Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at UMaine, about the child-free choice. Blackstone also is the author of […]
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The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and its publication Maine Policy Review have created a new digital publication series titled “Maine Policy Perspectives.” The online forum consists of a roundtable discussion of pressing policy issues that are under debate by policymakers at the local, regional, national and international levels. Adhering to the […]
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Amy Blackstone’s article “Sexual Harassment in Academia and Beyond: Causes, Consequences, and Change” was published in the September/October 2019 issue of ASA Footnotes. Blackstone writes that “knowledge from decades of sociological research helps us understand — and change — the reality of sexual harassment in academic workplaces and beyond.” Allies have an important role to […]
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The University of Maine has launched its podcast “The Maine Question.” Host Ron Lisnet talks with UMaine pioneers, including those who explore backyard gardens, the depths of the oceans, Earth’s highest peaks, or beyond. They’ll share why they’re passionate about their research and what it means for Maine and the world. In the inaugural episode, […]
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Robyn Young, a graduate student at the University of Maine and research assistant at Dartmouth College, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Expanded financial literacy will boost policies aimed at helping working Maine families.” Young is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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Ms. Magazine published an opinion piece by Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine. The piece was titled, “Boston’s ‘Straight Pride’ Parade Showed Us Where Nationalism and Fertility Panic Collide.”
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News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported that University of Maine sociology professor Karyn Sporer found that family members of children with severe mental illness and violent tendencies can employ three strategies to endure: Learn more about the illness and mental health system, join peer support groups, and find a silver lining or appreciate […]
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Research led by a University of Maine sociology professor explores how family members of children with severe mental illness and violent tendencies persevere through stressful situations. In a recently published study, Karyn Sporer looks at the importance of positivity, education and community, and examines strategies family members identify as being helpful when challenged by stressors […]
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Steven Cohn, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Maine, died July 29 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 79. He joined the UMaine community in 1971 and taught until 2014. A tribute to his life and legacy is on the Department of Sociology website.
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University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone, whose book ‘Childfree By Choice’ was published in June, recently had opinion pieces published in Grazia, Ms. and Time. In “Why I’m Child-Free, Not Child-Less” in Grazia, Blackstone wrote that the reasons that she and her husband Lance had “for not wanting to be parents — joy, fulfilment, the […]
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