The ASA Annual Meeting was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada this year. Three sociology students were able to attend through the ASA Honors Program: Allison DellaMattera, Julianna Ferguson, and Sam Saucier. Professors Steve Barkan and Kyriacos Markides were also in attendance. This year’s annual dinner with sociology alumni at the conference was well attended.
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This wonderful article from Bates College says it all with lots of photos of Michael Rocque ’05 at work as the Bates College Football Faculty Liaison: When Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael Rocque arrives at Garcelon Field for the football team’s final game of the season, a noontime contest vs. Hamilton, he’s looking the part […]
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Michael Rocque ’05, assistant professor of sociology at Bates College, is featured in this piece from Bates’ Twitter Feed on returning for a new academic year. Mike was caught by the cameras when he was awaiting the march to convocation on Sept 9, 2016.
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The New Yorker Online: The Daily Comment Fox News and the Repercussions of Sexual Harassment By Margaret Talbot August 19, 2016 One of the surprising things about the Fox News sexual-harassment story is that the women who have come forward with allegations include several of the network’s better-known anchors and reporters…. To some researchers who’ve […]
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Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health by Dawn R. Norris Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of […]
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Pacific Standard has picked up a story about Professor Amy Blackstone and Mahala Stewart’s (’09) latest paper on the childfree. “Media have tended to depict childfree people negatively,likening the decision not to have children to “whether to have pizza or Indian for dinner.” Misperceptions about those who do not have children have serious weight, given that, […]
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Mikaela Gustafsson ’16 was awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding International Student award for 2016. More about Mikaela’s award can be found in this post in the UMaine News. And from our Spring 2016 Social Facts Newsletter:
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We are pleased to report that Elaine Shute ’83 has been in touch and gives us this update: “I’ve been working for the U.S. Census Bureau since 2001, gathering data for various surveys in Downeast Maine, where I live with my husband and son. Also, have been a programmer at Community Radio Station WERU https://weru.org/ in Blue […]
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Recent graduate, Sarah Mullis ’16, has written an Op Ed for the Bangor Daily News. She worked with Chair Amy Blackstone to write this article which draws from her honors thesis research on community gardens and food security for the elderly. She also presented this research as a poster for the Center for Undergraduate Research Student Research Symposium […]
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Amy Blackstone is pleased to share that “UMaine alum Mahala Stewart ’09 and I have an article, entitled “‘There’s More Thinking to Decide’: How the Childfree Decide Not to Parent,” in the forthcoming volume of The Family Journal. In it, we analyze data from interviews with childfree women and men and find that the processes by […]
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