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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The online version of Ms. magazine has posted a blog by Amy Blackstone. It’s Politics. What Does Motherhood Have To Do With It? July 20, 2016 by Amy Blackstone | Whether a person has children or not has nothing to do with her qualifications for political office. Yet for women, motherhood is too often used […]
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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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Former faculty member, Kim Huisman, contacted us recently to let us know that Autumn Murtagh ’15 was applying to grad schools. We contacted Autumn to find out where she decided to go. She tells us, “I am attending a graduate program in Fall 2016. It is a graduate degree in criminal justice at Seattle University […]
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After graduating from UMaine in 2010, Ellen “El” Sherwood went on to receive a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from USM in 2013 and then attended the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies specializing in Photojournalism. El sent us a sampling of photos from travels that have taken her on some wonderful adventures. Here are […]
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Jane Donnell ’93 is in her 21st year at Northeast Historic Film (NHF) in Bucksport, Maine. NHF is a nonprofit archive dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing northern New England’s moving image heritage. They operate a three-story climate controlled vault holding more than 10 million feet of film, a public study center and a 140-seat […]
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As we have shifted to the new format for the sociology department website, we were not able to regularly update the alumni page with information we heard from our alumni. Here are some highlights from the past year: Steve Shaffer ’93: Professor Steve Barkan is a chocolate lover and in that capacity ordered some chocolate […]
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