Professor Amy Blackstone is quoted in this CNN Money piece from October 30, 2017. They are reporting about the impact of the Thomas hearings on the people she interviewed in the early 2000’s about their harassment experiences. Here is an excerpt: “A decade later, when University of Maine psychology** professor Amy Blackstone first began researching […]
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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 […]
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Updated 10-24-17 – Additional interviews can be found in these articles: Professor Blackstone was interviewed by BuzzFeed about the National Parks Service survey on harassment among employees there: https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/national-parks-harassment-survey?utm_term=.llrGEzreY#.wvD0jPW2y Here are a few more harassment stories she was interviewed for: “#MeToo. Maine too.” Maine Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, October 22, 2017 (http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2017/10/22/metoo-maine-too/2217833) Interview with WZON’s The […]
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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 […]
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Professor Sporer’s work on the barriers to helping mothers and their violent children with mental illness is featured in the Sept 11, 2017 UMaine News and the Fall 2017 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Alumni Newletter: Research examines barriers to helping mothers and their violent children with mental illness
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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 […]
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The Alumni Dinner at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was held at the LeWestin Restaurant in Montreal August 11-15, 2017. In attendance were (from front left around table): Yuka (Kawahito ’05) Doherty who is now an instructor and PhD Candidate at the University of New Mexico; Jason Houle ’05, Assistant Professor […]
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Ellen (Sherwood ’10) Stevens has accepted a position as Senior Administrative Assistant in the Sociology Department at Yale University. She tells us “I graduated in 2010 from UMaine with a bachelors in Sociology. I then received my masters in counseling from USM. I now work as a Senior Administrative Assistant in the Department of Sociology […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainable Solutions is bringing an environmental sociologist, Thomas Dietz from Michigan State University, to by the keynote speaker on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 1 pm in Hauck Auditorium. “The 21st century will see unprecedented transformations in human life and vast changes on planet Earth. Key among these are the problems of […]
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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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