Media Coverage
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Portland Press Herald
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was quoted in the Feb. 17 Portland Press Herald article "Maine governor looks ahead after turbulent LePage era" that compares the style of Maine's Governor Janet Mills to her predecessor, "viewed by critics as a blabbermouth and bully systematically shifted the course of state government to the right with a take-no-prisoner style." Mills is undoing this legacy. "The general sense in the state is that people are breathing a sigh of relief that you don’t have to worry about what the governor is going to say next,” Maisel, told the Press Herald. “We might not agree with everything that was said, but at least she’s not embarrassing us.”
New York Times
Biddy Mason Speaks Up, a new book by Arisa White, assistant professor of English, was the focus of the Feb. 8 New York Times "California Today" article "Meet Biddy Mason, a Black Woman Who Helped Build Los Angeles." The Times reporter was curious about why White decided to write about Biddy Mason and alternative ways of portraying historical figures. "A lot of what we thought about was the idea of the kind of linear, heroic narrative, where there’s one singular person who saves the day, versus more of a feminist recovery project,” White said. “We have to amass Biddy Mason’s story by pulling through different threads.”
James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, was quoted in a Feb. 8 CNN piece titled "Cli-fi (climate fiction) on the big screen changes minds about real climate change." Climate change fiction genre—cli-fi—"seems to help people believe in actual climate change, even when Hollywood's version of the science is a bit off," the story reports. "Fleming, one of the world's better-known history of scientific experts that focuses on climate change, said 'Snowpiercer' was a 'free airplane flick.' He watched it, ironically, on his way home from a geoengineering conference 'where I had a lecture on the insanity of planetary intervention,'" CNN reported.
"He found the class conflict and the revolution on the train interesting, as (spoiler alert) was the ending. 'Two survivors of the inevitable train wreck (both people of color) seem to foreshadow a new beginning and a hopeful future,' Fleming wrote in an email. Yet a hungry polar bear looks down on them. The film ends suddenly before the polar bear has his dinner."
WPFW-FM Pacifica
Professor of Education Adam Howard was interviewed Jan. 28 by Askia Muhammad on WPFW's "Monday Morning QB" show. Howard discussed his research on what lessons students at elite schools are taught about themselves and others, focused particularly on all-boy schools. Listen to the interview starting about 28 minutes into the show. WPFW-FM Pacifica is a Washington, D.C., station, dedicated to programming that reflects progressive social change and democracy, according to its website.
FiveThirtyEight
The FiveThirtyEight data journalism site recently featured an interactive personality test developed by Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto and collaborator Oliver John. The test, known as the BFI-2, measures the Big Five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, negative emotionality, and open-mindedness. The FiveThirtyEight feature shows how your personality compares with the average American adult. You can take the test and see your results at projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz.
The article "Science and Culture: Journal entries, maps, and photos help ecologists reconstruct ecosystems of the past" recently posted by PNAS, includes the work of Loren McClenachan, the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. The article mentions her 2017 study, in which "her team used 18th-century British nautical charts to estimate changes in the coral reef area in the Florida Keys," and a project where her students "asked historical societies in Maine for images of a seaweed called rockweed but came back empty-handed." McClenachan advised her students to ask for tourists pictures instead, and noted, "When going to archivists, ecologists need to be careful how they frame the question," PNAS said.
Portland Press Herald
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Garry Mitchell, deemed “an excellent painter,” was included in a Portland Press Herald art review about Maine's 2018 arts scene. Mitchell, associate professor of art, topped the list for what reviewer Daniel Kany called "his elegant and poignant show at Speedwell Projects." The show "was a lesson in how to begin to take on political subjects," he wrote. "It was impressive on many levels."
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Garry Mitchell, deemed “an excellent painter,” was included in a Portland Press Herald art review about Maine's 2018 arts scene. Mitchell, associate professor of art, topped the list for what reviewer Daniel Kany called "his elegant and poignant show at Speedwell Projects." The show "was a lesson in how to begin to take on political subjects," he wrote. "It was impressive on many levels."
Chronicle of Higher Education
An article by Aaron Hanlon, associate professor of English, was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education Dec. 7. Titled "Lies About the Humanities—and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," Hanlon outlines four categories of what he says are "bad theories about the humanities," including "the humanities are 'noncognitive' and humanities professors push left-wing ideas on students." In the end, Hanlon sees it as a failure of people "actively distorting and maligning" the work of humanities professors, and he asks for an end to the misrepresentation. "When you malign and misrepresent what scholars do, you’re punishing students."