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Prof Emeritus Barkan Article in Kennebec Journal

Professor Emeritus Steven Barkan has written an OpEd for Maine’s Kennebec Journal: Scholars Strategy Network: Why Maine needs L.D. 2 BY STEVEN E. BARKAN This bill would require the Legislature to assess the potential racial impact, however unintended, of any act the legislature passes. “Systemic racism” refers to the complex interaction of societal institutions and embedded […]

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Dr. Amy Blackstone – Chapter in New Book

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Blackstone who has a chapter “’Am I less of a woman because I don’t have kids?’ Gender Resistance and Reification among Childfree Women” in the new book “The Truth About (M)otherhood: Choosing to be Childfree.”   http://demeterpress.org/books/the-truth-about-motherhood-choosing-to-be-childfree/

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Barkan and Rocque (’05) Win Award from ASC

The following article has received the 2020 Outstanding Contribution Award from the Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology of the American Society of Criminology: Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque. 2018. “Socioeconomic Status and Racism as Fundamental Causes of Street Criminality.” Critical Criminology 26(2):211-231. Steve Barkan is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UMaine, while Michael Rocque is Associate Professor of […]

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Amy Blackstone, Heather McLaughlin ’06 co-authors

Dr. Amy Blackstone and Dr. Heather McLaughlin ’06 co-authored this piece in the Annual Review of Criminology: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-criminol-011419-041436. It was published early online in September and published will be in the journal in the new year. Heather McLaughlin is a UMaine sociology alum who went on to get her PhD at U of MN and work with […]

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Professor Amy Blackstone quoted in Refinery29 article

Dr. Amy Blackstone has been quoted in a couple of online magazines over the past few months – here are the links: From the UK – Refinrey29.com: My GP Dismissed My Endometriosis Pain Because I Don’t Want A Baby Yet by BETHANY DAWSON LAST UPDATED 16 NOVEMBER 2020, 2:00

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