Sociology

After a July 2 UMaine News report on Dr. Sporer’s research on the connection between terrorism and Twitter, her research is getting a lot of attention from the local TV stations. She was interviewed twice this week, you can see the news footage here: WABI, the local CBS affiliate, on July 17, 2018 FOX News […]

Professor Karyn Sporer received official word that she and her co-author, Paige W. Toller, received the Rose B. Johnson Southern Communication Journal Article of the Year Award, 2018, for their article “Family Identity Disrupted by Mental Illness and Violence: An Application of Relational Dialectics Theory.” The award is given by the Southern States Communication Association.  Dr. Sporer says, […]

Attached is an article from Dr. Karyn Sporer’s collaboration with colleagues in the psychology and nursing programs. She was asked to conduct the qualitative data analysis for this research. What are older adults wellness priorities? A qualitative analysis of priorities within multiple domains of wellness Kelley Strout, Fayeza Ahmed, Karyn Sporer, Elizabeth P. Howard, Elizabeth Sassatelli, Kristen […]

Once again Amy Blackstone’s professional opinion from her studies of the Childfree was called on for a major article. This time the article is in Bustle, an online e-magazine. The article, “Who Will Take Care Of Me If I Don’t Have Kids?” by Kristina Marusic, discusses the issues the childfree are facing as they age. […]

Professor Blackstone was interviewed for an article in Elle magazine: “This is How Sexual Harassment Ruins Your Career” Elle was one of her favorite magazines when she was younger and Prof Blackstone says, “I was tickled to talk with someone at Elle, which I read voraciously as a teenage fashion nerd. Never thought I might one […]

Professor Steve Barkan has an OpEd in the 11-8-17 Bangor Daily News entitled “The Hurtful Racial Truth about Criminal Justice in the US.” Here is an excerpt: Sometimes the truth hurts. One truth many Americans don’t want to face is racial and ethnic injustice in our criminal justice system. Kneeling athletes and the Black Lives […]

Professor Karyn Sporer has co-authored a chapter in the new Cambridge University Press book “The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains.” The book includes the work of international scholars from a variety of disciplines who, in each chapter, discuss a unique domain of creativity. Her chapter addresses creativity in terrorism (i.e., malevolent creativity). Book Details […]

From the Bangor Daily News: Steve Barkan, professor of sociology with an emphasis on criminology, University of Maine: America has always been a violent country. We began by enslaving and brutalizing African-Americans and killing and torturing Native Americans. The new nation began with revolutionary violence against England. … Lynchings of African-Americans more or less began during […]

On 9.27.17 Professor Steven Barkan had a letter to the editor printed in the New York Times. To the Editor: In her otherwise insightful column on minority rule and the Electoral College, Michelle Goldberg contrasts an America that is “urban, diverse and outward-looking” with one that is “white, provincial and culturally revanchist.” This latter description […]