Professor Amy Blackstone was interviewed for an article in the September 2018 issue of Population Connection. See pages 22-25 for the article Professor Amy Blackstone Is {Not} Having a Baby! She is Interviewed by Lee S. Polansky. Excerpt: Amy Blackstone, PhD, is decidedly not having children. She and her husband, Lance, are so committed to the childfree life […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Bangor Daily News has published an opinion piece by UMaine Sociology Dept Alum Michael Rocque ’05, now Assistant Professor at Bates College, and his frequent co-author, Chad Posnick, an associate professor of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro: Why We Must Re-engage, Even When We Disagree By Michael Rocque and Chad […]
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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, […]
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We have received this update from Robyn Lorom Young ’17. She’s been a grad student and a graduate assistant for Student Support Services here at UMaine this year and now advises: “I graduated last year with my degree in Social Work and Sociology, and I was eager to begin my master’s program in Higher Education […]
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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 […]
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