Sociology

Professor Amy Blackstone was interviewed for this article in WIRED: ‘WHY DON’T YOU WANT KIDS?’ ‘BECAUSE APOCALYPSE!’ By Emma Grey Ellis; March 28, 2019 This story is part of a week-long series on reproduction, from prenatal testing to male birth control. ARE YOU PREGNANT yet? Don’t you like kids? Well, it’s different when it’s your own child. Being […]

The new Audible Original audio book “New Family Values” features an interview with Professor Amy Blackstone. Author Andrew Solomon and a producer from Audible came up to UMaine last fall to interview her for the chapter on childfree families.

Professor Amy Blackstone and her husband Lance were interviewed on the popular Maine Public Radio show “Maine Calling” with Jennifer Rooks on December 6, 2018. Professor Blackstone’s upcoming book is “Child Free by Choice” and she and her husband write a blog called “we’re {not} having a baby.” The show, titled “Child Free: The Choice […]

Professor Amy Blackstone has collaborated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality/Rising Tide Center Director, Susan K. Gardner, on an article that’s just come out in a new open source journal, Trends in Diversity: Mobilization in Response to Workplace Harassment: Lessons from One University Setting Amy Blackstone and Susan K. Gardner Abstract We examine experiences of and responses […]

Professor Amy Blackstone’s work as a childfree researcher is once again the highlight of an article, “Why these women chose to be childfree – and why that’s completely fine “ by Meers Jagannathan that appears in the online in Moneyish, a standalone, independent site within the Dow Jones Media Group, a vibrant collection of digital media […]

Professor Barkan, as part of the Scholars Strategy Network, has an Op Ed in the September 25 Bangor Daily News, “Immigrants Help Make America Great.” Immigrants help make America great By Steven E. Barkan, Special to the BDN • September 25, 2018 9:57 am “We have often heard these past few years that immigrants have high crime […]

Professor Steven E. Barkan has a new book published today by Oxford University Press: Race, Crime and Justice: The Continuing American Dilemma This is one in a series of “Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice” published by Oxford University Press. Up-to-date, timely, and topical, this text covers the latest research in the field Discusses the racial […]

UMaine Sociology’s new Assistant Professor Amber Tierney was asked to participate in a recent short on the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. She was asked to speak to her archival research on social justice and the media using data from the Archive in order to celebrate their 50th Anniversary this August. You can see her segment […]

Dr. Karyn Sporer reports that a recent book chapter is officially published/printed in the Criminalization of Mental Illness Reader (Slate & Johnson, eds), from Carolina Academic Press, which is an accompaniment to an acclaimed book by Slate & Johnson on persons with mental illness and the criminal justice system. Her chapter is called, “Family violence and mental […]

Twitter Trolls and Terrorism Sympathy: Researcher Probes Feed in Attack Aftermath Mon, 08/06/2018 – 1:03pm by Seth Augenstein – Senior Science Writer – Forensic Magazine @SethAugenstein The missives were tapped out onto Twitter from all the corners of the world, even as the victims still lay dying on the sidewalk in Nice, France, on Bastille Day two […]