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Minerva 2018, The Honors College
Minerva 2018, The Honors College
Minerva
This issue of Minerva includes an article on the Honors Endeavor by recently retired faculty member, David Gross; an adaptation of Isaac Record's 2018 Distinguished Honors Graduate lecture; an article on 2018 Honors Read Just Mercy; and a wonderful farewell to beloved Honors College Administrative Specialist, Deb Small. Other highlights include a reflection by CLAS-Honors preceptor of philosophy, Hao Hong; and a look into 2018-2019 student thesis research.
Key To The Past: Community Perceptions Of Yup’Ik Youth Interaction With Culturally Relevant Education Inspired By The Nunalleq Archaeology Project, Sean R. O'Rourke, Justin J. Turner, Krista Ritchie
Key To The Past: Community Perceptions Of Yup’Ik Youth Interaction With Culturally Relevant Education Inspired By The Nunalleq Archaeology Project, Sean R. O'Rourke, Justin J. Turner, Krista Ritchie
Journal of Archaeology and Education
This study qualitatively describes a) the implementation of culturally relevant education (CRE) programs for Yup’ik youth in Quinhagak, Alaska that developed from the Nunalleq Project—a nearby archaeological excavation—and b) community members’ and program facilitators’ perceptions of associated youth social and psychological outcomes. Ten semi-structured interviews (seven community members, three program facilitators) were undertaken and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Community members and program facilitators attributed numerous outcomes to the Nunalleq-related CRE, such as imparting practical skills (e.g., wilderness survival, artistic and technological skills), teaching young people to value their heritage (e.g., educating them about the struggles their ancestors overcame), and …
Social Media Activism The Subject Of Recent Discussion, Emily Turner
Social Media Activism The Subject Of Recent Discussion, Emily Turner
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
On Nov. 6 the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Colloquium Series held its second discussion of the fall semester. Dr. Judith Rosenbaum gave the talk titled “#TakingAKnee: Exploring justice, respect, and patriotism on Instagram and Twitter.” Rosenbaum is an assistant professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine whose research includes social and health effects of media. The theme of this talk surrounded creating meaning on social media platforms. It featured discussion on the hashtag #TakingAKnee and how this social movement has opened a new dialogue nationwide. Rosenbaum recognized that Colin Kaepernick played a large role in initiating …
Editorial : Desensitization To Tragedy, Liz Theriault
Editorial : Desensitization To Tragedy, Liz Theriault
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Amidst the midterm elections, the never-ending battle between the president and the press, and the raging wildfires in California, the tragedy that repeatedly strikes our nation has found its way back into our headlines once again. Mass shootings at the Pittsburg synagogue, Florida yoga studio and Thousand Oaks all happened in the span of 11 days. Despite the horrific levels of these tragedies, the cycle remains the same: they occur, we talk about them for a week and then we move on.
Tragedy In Pittsburgh Brings Community Together, Emily Turner
Tragedy In Pittsburgh Brings Community Together, Emily Turner
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Many members of the local community came together throughout the week to show support for members of the Jewish community in light of the shooting that took place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Oct. 27, 2018. On Oct. 29 there was a candlelight vigil held on the steps of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine in remembrance of the 11 victims who lost their lives. Professor Amy Fried spoke of her family’s experience of anti-Semitism in Europe and how historically America has been welcoming to the Jewish community. Because of this …
Leigh Gilmore Talks At Umaine About The #Metoo Movement, Kendra Caruso
Leigh Gilmore Talks At Umaine About The #Metoo Movement, Kendra Caruso
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Leigh Gilmore, a distinguished visiting professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College, was the first speaker of this year’s Stephen E. King Lecture Series. Gilmore spoke about topics related to the #MeToo movement and its origins.
Editorial: Cultures Are Not Costumes, Watch What You Wear On Halloween, Liz Theriault
Editorial: Cultures Are Not Costumes, Watch What You Wear On Halloween, Liz Theriault
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The timing is like clockwork. The calendar is creeping closer to Oct. 31 and the privileged cries of not understanding the impact of Halloween costumes incorporating blackface has hit the airwaves once more. This time, Megyn Kelly, former host of “Megyn Kelly Today” on NBC, sparked this discussion when she defended the use of blackface for costumes on national television.
The University Of Maine Student Government Club Feature On The Black Student Union, University Of Maine
The University Of Maine Student Government Club Feature On The Black Student Union, University Of Maine
University of Maine Racial Justice Collection
This newsletter from the University of Maine Student Government's Club Feature on the Black Student Union dated September 26, 2018. The purpose of the feature was to recognize the club's activism and education on anti-racism. It includes the events held by the organization and its goals.
Mollie Tibbits, Ariana Grande And Serena Williams: Every Woman, M. J. Gautrau
Mollie Tibbits, Ariana Grande And Serena Williams: Every Woman, M. J. Gautrau
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
I’ve spent the past few weeks fuming at the world’s treatment of women. I’m mad at the people who believe women and men are equal and that there’s no problem here. Over the last few months, we’ve seen very high pro��le news stories of women as scapegoats. It is now our time to see these stories, hear these women and react justly.
Dawnbreaker Vol 65 No 1 (Fall 2018), Dawnbreaker Staff
Dawnbreaker Vol 65 No 1 (Fall 2018), Dawnbreaker Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Classroom Alternatives, 2018-19, Kendra Scheele
Classroom Alternatives, 2018-19, Kendra Scheele
University of Maine Racial Justice Collection
Promotional brochure from the Office of Student Life distributed to UMaine faculty members, listing classroom encounter programs offered through various university services, departments, and organizations.
Immersed In Fire: The Use Of Virtual Reality As An Attitude Assessor And Boundary Object In Wildland Fire Management, Casey Olechnowicz
Immersed In Fire: The Use Of Virtual Reality As An Attitude Assessor And Boundary Object In Wildland Fire Management, Casey Olechnowicz
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Interest in using prescribed burning as a forest management tool to promote forest health and regeneration is growing in Maine. The goal for this research was to better understand the way that the public perceives prescribed burning practices in wildland-urban interfaces, with an emphasis placed on how immersive imagery, closely related to virtual reality (VR), compares to traditional communication methods. We specifically focus on the social acceptability of prescribed burning and analyze how the level of immersive imagery is related to that acceptability (Ahn, 2015; Bricken, 1990; Fogg, Cuellar, and Danielson, 2009; Smith 2015; Wiederhold, Davis, and Wiederhold, 1998). The …
Looking At Innovation Dialogically: Teaching Communication And (Social) Change In The Innovation Engineering Program At The University Of Maine, Mark J. Congdon Jr.
Looking At Innovation Dialogically: Teaching Communication And (Social) Change In The Innovation Engineering Program At The University Of Maine, Mark J. Congdon Jr.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Higher education institutions face two concurrent demands: preparing students for the job-market, while also developing informed and engaged citizens (Frey & Palmer, 2014; Gould, 2003). How universities reconcile these demands varies. The Innovation Engineering program (IE) at the University of Maine strives to both, “change the world by enabling innovation” (concern for social issues) and educate entrepreneurs (students) whose innovations reach markets quicker and at a decreased risk (capitalist orientation) (Hall, 2013; Kelly, 2014). The program uses a systems approach to innovation by teaching tools and methods for creating, communicating, and commercializing meaningfully unique ideas. Processes and contexts are important …
From Common Lands To Second Nature: The Scholarship Of Richard W. Judd And The Future Of Eastern Environmental History, Eileen Hagerman, Brian Payne, Matt Mckenzie, Kate Veins, John Cumbler, Brian Donahue, Brian Payne
From Common Lands To Second Nature: The Scholarship Of Richard W. Judd And The Future Of Eastern Environmental History, Eileen Hagerman, Brian Payne, Matt Mckenzie, Kate Veins, John Cumbler, Brian Donahue, Brian Payne
History Faculty Scholarship
Renowned environmental historian, Richard Judd, retired from teaching at the University of Maine, May 2018. Professor Judd was one of the UMaine History Department’s most prolific scholars and helped build numerous connections between the sciences and the humanities at UMaine in addition to being a significant force within the interdisciplinary field of environmental history itself for the past three decades.
Professor Judd authored dozens of books and articles related to conservation; environmental thought; and the traditional farming, hunting, fishing, and logging cultures of Maine and northern New England. He also served as an editor for a number of projects—most notably …
Panoptic Schooling’S Confused Lessons: A Philosophical Investigation Of Discipline In The School, Donncha Sean Peadar Coyle
Panoptic Schooling’S Confused Lessons: A Philosophical Investigation Of Discipline In The School, Donncha Sean Peadar Coyle
Honors College
How does the school instruct us? What is it like for a student to learn in a school? The following thesis construes the school as a site for disciplinary technology purportedly oriented toward educating students. My conceptual analysis rests on the intersection between the sociohistorical practice of schooling and the lived experience of students. I contrast schooling (the organization of a primary planned environment for instruction) and education (an existential facet of growth and social connectedness) at the center of the essay. My argument has three parts. First, I examine Michel Foucault’s concept of disciplinary technology as it pertains to …
To Speak In The Cave, Stephen Thomas Krichels
To Speak In The Cave, Stephen Thomas Krichels
Honors College
The aim of To Speak In The Cave is to provide some insight regarding how the Chinese government allows its citizens to voice their opinions, while simultaneously alienating the audience from existing bias.
To this end the narrative avoids any Chinese characteristics that are not fundamental to China’s treatment of its citizens as it pertains to their public voice. All names are Western, as are job titles and any cultural aspects of the narrative world that are not related to the allegory being created throughout the story.
The protagonist of the story, Jerg, is a dissociated and down on his …
Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier
Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier
Honors College
This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of University of Maine students attitudes and consumption habits of pornography. It contains a literature review of anti-pornography feminism from the Second Wave, as well as an overview of sex-positive and sex-critical theories of pornography from more recent years. The goal of the thesis is to understand how sex-negative and/or sex-positive ideas have or have not permeated college student’s understanding of pornography. Over 800 students were surveyed about pornography consumption through the Psychology Department’s Fall prescreen. 4 students from the survey, who all happened to be women, were interviewed about their relationships …
Constructing Identity Through The Lens Of Fashion: An Honors Thesis, Cara P. Doiron
Constructing Identity Through The Lens Of Fashion: An Honors Thesis, Cara P. Doiron
Honors College
Fashion is an artistic decision that every person makes every day. Even those who say they don’t care about clothing are still portraying something about themselves to the outside world with the stylistic choices they make. This creative Honors Thesis explores the impact of fashion on self-representation, accomplished through the design and construction of a capsule wardrobe line of clothing. Due to the project’s personal and introspective nature, the intended wearer is the artist, and therefore the pieces are specifically tailored to her, rather than the straight sized garments that are typically produced in the fashion industry. This line consists …
Taste Of Asia Celebrates Asian Culture In Maine, Finn Bradenday
Taste Of Asia Celebrates Asian Culture In Maine, Finn Bradenday
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Many University of Maine students and community members passing through the Memorial Union on Saturday, April 28, witnessed the Asian Student Association’s Taste of Asia event taking place in the North Pod and Union Central.
A Little Hall With A Big, Complicated History, Lindsey Moran
A Little Hall With A Big, Complicated History, Lindsey Moran
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
In the middle of the University of Maine mall sits Little Hall, named after the president of UMaine from 1922-1925 and founder of Bar Harbor’s Jackson Laboratory, Clarence C. Little. The building is home to the departments of Psychology, Modern Languages and Classics, as well as the Franco-American Studies Program. Little Hall sees droves of students every year dedicated to furthering UMaine’s mission to improve the quality of life for people in Maine and around the world.
Can Tenure Be Abused?, Liz Theriault
Can Tenure Be Abused?, Liz Theriault
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
In any higher education establishment, academic freedom is of great importance. The security provided to professors by academic tenure ensures that faculty are protected from termination because of their speech, research findings or political reasons. Without this security, academic progress could be stifled. But can this privilege and security be abused?
Editorial: Understanding Our Foul Mouths, Sarah Allisot
Editorial: Understanding Our Foul Mouths, Sarah Allisot
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The language we use matters, regardless of how small individual words seem in the moment. It’s too easy to disconnect from a place of privilege and safety and ask, "Who cares?” The answer to that misguided question is people — living, breathing people who face aggression because we let coined phrases and words come out before really thinking about them. And that’s the best scenario. There are always those incidences where language is used as a weapon, meant to degrade or devalue certain people with the powerful backing of social context. Words don’t translate in a vacuum, free from our …
The New Immigrant Experience Enlightens At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley
The New Immigrant Experience Enlightens At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to immigrate to a foreign nation, last Wednesday’s panel titled “The New Immigrant Experience: Sharing Stories and Dispelling Myths” hosted by the University of Maine International Programs provided three unique perspectives on that experience. The event took place on March 28in room 100 of the Donald P. Corbett building on campus and went from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Beginning with a Taste of Africa reception in the foyer, attendees were encouraged to try traditional African dishes and mingle among each other. After about an hour, attendees congregated in the large lecture …
Social Practice Artist And Disability Inclusion, Renee Stronach
Social Practice Artist And Disability Inclusion, Renee Stronach
Student and Trainee Scholarship
The power of the “image” has been well documented over the course of history. In the 21 st century, visual culture, image is further empowered as it both sustains and subverts cultural norms and meanings. Socially engaged or social practice artists are an important yet diverse group who are creating and displaying image to disrupt injustice, truncated rights, devaluation, and inequality. Typically, these artists define a social problem and a desired outcome that will result from the creation and dissemination of their imagery. Because this contemporary-relevant strategy is becoming increasingly powerful as image and visuality are omnipotent in all aspects …
Dawnbreaker Vol 64 No 3 (Spring 2018), Dawnbreaker Staff
Dawnbreaker Vol 64 No 3 (Spring 2018), Dawnbreaker Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Disrupting Disability: Social Practice Art, Jaimi Clifford, Students Of Dis 450 And Dis 520
Disrupting Disability: Social Practice Art, Jaimi Clifford, Students Of Dis 450 And Dis 520
Poster Presentations
Visuality and imagery are two powerful mechanisms embedded within cultures that perpetuate as well as reflect structural violence. Despite the serious harm caused by unchecked cultural violence, it is often overlooked, particularly as it appears or is absent in image. This study examines how images both creates institutional violence exercised through discrimination against aging and disabled populations and how socially engaged art, curation, and performance are being used to disrupt and reverse oppression, discrimination, and exclusion.
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Meeting Students Where They Are Through Understanding Who They Are, Center For Innovation In Teaching And Learning, Rising Tide Center
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Meeting Students Where They Are Through Understanding Who They Are, Center For Innovation In Teaching And Learning, Rising Tide Center
University of Maine Racial Justice Collection
Event announcement for a guest presentation by Dr. Daniel Tillapaugh, UMaine Visiting Libra Scholar and assistant professor of counselor education at California Lutheran University, on how "culturally responsive teaching and learning can providing meaningful, transformative experiences for both faculty and their students."
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Meeting Students Where They Are Through Understanding Who They Are, Center For Innovation In Teaching And Learning, Rising Tide Center
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Meeting Students Where They Are Through Understanding Who They Are, Center For Innovation In Teaching And Learning, Rising Tide Center
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Event announcement for a guest presentation by Dr. Daniel Tillapaugh, UMaine Visiting Libra Scholar and assistant professor of counselor education at California Lutheran University, on how "culturally responsive teaching and learning can providing meaningful, transformative experiences for both faculty and their students."
Serano Hosts Public Talk On “Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, And Political Correctness”, Ryan Cox
Serano Hosts Public Talk On “Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, And Political Correctness”, Ryan Cox
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Dr. Julia Serano held a public talk, entitled “A Social Justice Activist’s Perspective on Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, and Political Correctness” in the Minsky Recital Hall on March 22, 2018, as part of UMaine’s Women’s History Month celebrations. Serano is a writer, performer, biologist, and transgender and bisexual activist, whose works include “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,” “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive” and most recently “Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism.”
10 Ways To Make A Difference At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley
10 Ways To Make A Difference At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
One of the many amazing things about the college of our hearts always is its endless opportunities to make an impact, whether it be on this campus, in the state of Maine, for the United States or on a global scale. The best way to get involved is to collaborate with some of the amazing service, activist or political student clubs. With so many options, meetings and events it’s hard to know where to begin. Here are 10 organizations that are a great place to start.