Humanities Center

McGillicuddy Humanities Center awards spring faculty grants

The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine has announced the Spring 2021 faculty awards. The Center’s mission includes demonstrating the immediacy and applicability of humanities studies, and it supports programs and projects fostering intellectual curiosity, critical reflection and creative innovation. Susan Camp, adjunct associate professor of art, received funding for ”Duet,” a collaborative […]

BDN interviews Socolow about journalist’s actions in standoff

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Michael Socolow about whether a journalist should have handed his cellphone to a police officer when the perpetrator of an armed standoff in Livermore Falls called him, particularly “without a warrant or other legal means of compulsion.” “Reporters should never simply turn over their reporting tools, notes and other materials […]

New cohort of McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellows begin research

Four University of Maine students have joined the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) this semester as research fellows. Fellows receive $4,000 a semester for two consecutive semesters while they work on their chosen humanities projects and serve as humanities ambassadors to peers, the campus and beyond. Delaney Burns, Elizabeth Dalton, Grace Royle and […]

Sieber article featured in The Conversation, other media

The Conversation, the Maine Beacon and the Portland Press Herald, Centralmaine.com and the Bangor Daily News published an article by Karen Sieber, humanities specialist at the University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center, about a violent 1919 campus incident that culminated in the tarring and feathering of two Black students. Sieber has studied the wave of anti-black […]

Socolow speaks with WVII about preventing misinformation from spreading

Michael Socolow, director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about misinformation and how to prevent it from spreading. “A lot of people who have their heart in the right place and are intending to share on social media things that they believe are accurate are sharing […]

Academics Sanchez, Bracey to discuss impact of Black studies

In honor of Black History Month, the University of Maine Black Student Union and the University of Maine Alumni Association will welcome Sonia Sanchez and John Bracey to discuss the relevance and impact of Black Studies in 21st century higher education at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28 over Zoom. Register for the free, public event […]

New media seniors develop novel tools tackling stress, COVID-19 lifestyle

The stress of COVID-19 and other obstacles of everyday life prompted seven seniors from the University of Maine New Media program to develop novel apps and activities to cope and adapt. Using a variety of modern audiovisual and interactive technologies these students crafted tools that can help users de-stress, learn new hobbies, entertain themselves and […]

Washington Post interviews Socolow about reality-based journalism

The Washington Post quoted Michael Socolow, University of Maine media historian and director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, about how journalists can mitigate the spread of disinformation by featuring regular Americans in their reporting rather than politicians.

Raising our Voices series to examine race, racism

The University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) will host a two-part virtual series on defining race and confronting racism 4-5 p.m. Nov. 19 and Nov. 30 in partnership with Native American Programs, the departments of Anthropology, Communications and Journalism, Philosophy, Political Science, and the School of Social Work. The Nov. 19 session, titled […]

Socolow connects War of the Worlds panic, media literacy in WABI interview

WABI (Channel 5) talked with Michael Socolow, director of the University of Maine’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center, about Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds,” noting that at that time, radio was the social media of its day. “We should apply media literacy and think about things critically. That was important in 1938 […]

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